Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Donore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64984, -7.38329
- SMR number
- WM007-109----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 S shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. 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 (Little 2014, 2). Described as Site 4 by Professor Frank Mitchell (Mitchell 1972, 170). The chert at Lake Derravaragh has an unusual banded structure and disintegrates easily on exposure to the weather. Site 4 was described by Mitchell as 'a knoll of higher ground, rising to 80m, composed of rock and glacial deposits. Along the foreshore there was a thin scatter of chert debitage' (Mitchell 1972, 170). Today there are no surface remains visible of this lithic scatter.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 February 2017
References
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.