Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Derrya, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrya
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66549, -7.40712
- SMR number
- WM006-025----
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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
Situated on the NW shore of Lough Derravaragh, 50m NW of where the Inny River enters the lake, in an area of exposed lake bed, now under trees. The Mesolithic shoreline of the lake was exposed after the Inny River was drained in the 1960s resulting in the lowering of the water level on Lough Derravaragh. A number of poor chert flakes were found on a number of low natural spits of high ground. Further in-shore the old shore line is apparent but no traces of other flint scatters were found (Mitchell 1972: Little 2014, 2).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 January 2017
References
Mitchell, G.F. 1972 Some ultimate Larnian sites at Lake Derravaragh, Co. Westmeath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 102, 160-73.
Little, A 2014 Clonava Island revisited: a story of cooking, plants and re-occupation during the Irish Late Mesolithic. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 114, 1-21.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.