Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Drummans Lower, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drummans Lower
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16063, -8.09926
- SMR number
- LE018-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the N end of the W shore of Lough Allen. During 1968 when water levels were low, G. F. Mitchell and P. Healy collected worked chert, including Bann flakes, struck flakes, a small core and debitage from the lake shore (Mitchell 1970, 7-8). In March 2015 Karl Brady of the Underwater Archaeology Unit discovered a chert blade in close proximity to a newly discovered logboat at Drummans Lower on Lough Allen. The discovery of the chert blade could be related to the lithic scatter recorded by Healy and Mitchell in the late 1960s (pers. comm. Karl Brady 28/08/2018).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 4 August 2018
References
Mitchell, G.F. 1970 Some chronological implications of the Irish Mesolithic. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 18, 1-16.
Nearby in the register
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.