What is recorded here

Fifty-seven chert flakes and a small polished axe emerged from a glacial till island on Lough Kinale in 1969. They belong to the Late Mesolithic and likely served a nearby crannog, turning a quiet foreshore into a busy workshop where stone was shaped for daily use. The water has hidden the hand that struck the flint, but the sharp fragments still prove that people lived, made tools and left behind a trace of their craft.

On a glacial till island on the foreshore of Lough Kinale. An assemblage of stone and chert objects, comprising 57 chert flakes, a small polished stone axe and a possible hammerstone, of Late Mesolithic date was recovered from this location in 1969; referred to in the literature as 'Lough Kinale 2' because of its association with a possible crannog (LF011-066002-) identified c. 20m to the N (Mitchell 1970; Raftery 1972; O'Sullivan 1998, 51). It is likely that the finds are associated with the possible crannog (Fredengren et al. 2010, 137-8). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 13 January 2013

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