& Old Drogheda Society
Special HERITAGE WEEK lecture
THE SEARCH FOR AMHAIRGIN
Looking deep into Millmount’s past …
by
Kevin Barton & Conor Brady
Thursday 22nd August 2013 @ 8pm
Governor’s House, Millmount Cultural Quarter
Using the latest geophys technology Drogheda Museum
begin a year-long project to look deep into the ancient mound at Millmount in a
search for Drogheda’s Stone Age …
It is thought that the mound at Millmount in Drogheda
was originally part of the great Megalithic (“large stone”) Culture which
flourished in the Boyne
Valley from 5,000BCE to
2,000BCE and includes the internationally-famous tombs of Newgrange and Knowth.
Its importance in our collective folk memory is underlined by the legend that
the mythological figure Amhairgin (pronounced “Aver-gin”) the originator of
song and poetry is buried there.
Because of the huge amount of structural changes on
the mound over the millennia normal archaeological excavation is impossible but
now through the wonders of modern electronic remote sensing (“geophys”) we can
scan deep into Millmount and begin to unlock its secrets.
Leaders of the Project Team,
Kevin Barton of Landscape
& Geophysical Services
and
Conor Brady, Lecturer in Archaeology at
DKIT
will launch the research
programme with a special lecture in
The Governor’s House Millmount
.
Bookstall on night.
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Bookstall on night.
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