Keeraunnagark South

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Keeraunnagark South

The townland Keeraunnagark South ( Irish Caorán na gCearc Theas ) south of Lake Loch an tSeanbhaile at Poll Aill an Arbhair is the location of one of more than three dozen prehistoric kitchen rubbish heaps ( English midden ) located in Connemara in County Galway in Ireland .

The prehistoric clam pile, overgrown by grass and located near the sea at Galway Bay , is about 2.4 m high in the middle and about 13.5 m in diameter. It consists of shells of the beach and limpet and will Toit Chonain named after the legendary Conan Maol, a warrior of the Fianna of Irish tradition, which, as the legend says, has emptied his pockets here.

literature

  • Nicky Milner: Oysters, cockles and kitchenmiddens: Changing practices at the Mesolithic / Neolithic transition In: P. Miracle and N. Milner (Eds.): Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption. Mac Donald Institute, Cambridge 2002
  • Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Volume II: North Galway . Stationary Office, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7076-6179-X .

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 32.8 "  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 46.3"  W.