County: Meath Site name: GORMANSTOWN BEACH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0467, 02E0948
Author: Niall Brady, for The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd.
Site type: Logboat
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 718148m, N 766416m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.634196, -6.213503
Monitoring of the capital dredging associated with cutting the trench for Bord Gáis Éireann’s Irish Subsea Interconnector pipeline identified a significant number of timber fragments at the landfall site at Gormanston, Co. Meath. The source area was investigated underwater, and the remains of a logboat were discovered and excavated in situ. The boat is the first such vessel to be identified and recovered from an active marine context in Ireland. It is currently undergoing conservation for storage as part of the collections of the National Museum of Ireland.
2 Vale Terrace, Lower Dargle Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
