8/19/2013

Special Heritage Week Lecture

                               

& 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,
and
Conor Brady, Lecturer in Archaeology at DKIT
will launch the research programme with a special lecture in
The Governor’s House Millmount
 
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Bookstall on night.


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