Along the south-eastern shore of Bofin Harbour, on Inishbofin off the Galway coast, drifting sand has gradually uncovered a midden, a prehistoric or early historic refuse deposit, stretching some 200 metres in length and 10 metres wide. Middens are essentially the accumulated domestic waste of past communities, built up over years or generations, and they are invaluable to archaeologists precisely because people threw away the things they used every day. What makes this particular spread of material quietly arresting is its visibility: the wind that exposed it continues to shape it, meaning the site exists in a slow, ongoing state of revelation.

What survives at the surface is a layer of burnt stones, with at least one stone-lined hearth still discernible within the deposit. Burnt stone sites are a recurring feature of the Irish archaeological landscape, often associated with cooking, bathing, or industrial processes, though the precise function of any individual example is difficult to determine without excavation. Around ten metres to the north of the main spread, a crudely constructed stone wall protrudes from the dune sand, its relationship to the habitation material unclear but suggestive of some associated structure. The site was recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I, compiled by Paul Gosling and published in 1993, which places it firmly in the documented but under-examined category of coastal heritage sites that tend to attract less attention than the more monumental remains found inland.