Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Derragh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derragh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77258, -7.40263
- SMR number
- LF011-065001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the peaty foreshore of Lough Kinale. It is recorded that an assemblage of artifacts, comprising 24 chert flakes, five stone axeheads and a hammerstone, of Late Mesolithic date was recovered from this location in 1969 (NMI Topgr. File); referred to in the literature as 'Lough Kinale 1' (Mitchell 1970; Raftery 1972, 183, 187; O'Sullivan 1998, 51). During the course of survey work in 2001 and 2003, the area was searched thoroughly but no other artifacts were found. The assemblage may be associated with the possible crannog (LF011-065002-) also identified here in 1969 (Fredengren et al. 2010, 137).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 18 December 2012
References
Fredengren, C., Kilfeather, A., and Stuijts, I. 2010 Lough Kinale: studies of an Irish lake. Lake settlement project. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 8. Wordwell Ltd.
O'Sullivan, A. 1998 The archaeology of lake settlement in Ireland. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 4. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Mitchell, G.F. 1970 Some chronological implications of the Irish Mesolithic. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 18, 1-16.
Raftery, J. 1972 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1969. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 102, 181-233.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.