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Re-assessing the logboat from Lurgan Townland, Co. Galway, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. E. Robinson ,
D. W. Shimwell  and
G. Cribbin
M. E. Robinson
Affiliation:
Palaeoecological Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England. [email protected]. [email protected]
D. W. Shimwell
Affiliation:
Palaeoecological Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England. [email protected]. [email protected]
G. Cribbin
Affiliation:
Tooraree, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, Ireland
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Abstract

Recent study of the prehistoric Lurgan logboat reveals many details of its construction and date. Speculation on how the boat was used and why it was incomplete offer an insight into Irish prehistory.

Keywords

logboatIrelandprehistorypeat bogsea craft
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 903 - 908
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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