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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Oldbridge Logboat, River Boyne
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 1.913 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Meath Type: Not Known (by us)
Nearest Village: Drybridge
Latitude: 53.718560N Longitude: 6.40177W
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Co. Meath. In June 2016 four anglers (Stephen Murphy, accompanied by Kieran Mahar, William Gregory and David Johnston) discovered the remains of a logboat while fishing a tidal stretch of the River Boyne at Oldbridge, Co. Meath.

The logboat was found lying up-side-down mid-channel in the river approximately 300m upstream of the Drogheda M1 suspension bridge. Only the floor of the boat survives; it has an overall length of 3.12m, is parallel-sided in plan and has a maximum surviving width of 75cm. The boat has a flat longitudinal floor and slightly rounded transverse cross section and it is likely to be the case that the boat originally had a rounded bow and stern. The overall length of the boat appears to have been at least 4m and very probably longer. There is no evidence for tool marks or other features on the boat. Both bark and sapwood are absent.

Neither end of the boat survives intact but the bow is normally the narrower end of the vessel with logboats in Ireland. The floor is slightly rounded in transverse section and measures 12cm in thickness near the stern and is 9.5cm thick in the middle of the boat. The underside of the stern end of the boat is badly eroded and uneven as this side lay exposed on the riverbed and is marked with a number of circular hollows and depressions. These were probably caused by the scouring of riverine stones or pebbles on its surface whereas the opposite end or bow is smooth and rounded and appears to be the original under surface of the boat.

Due to the fragility of the boat it was decided in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland to recover the boat from the river for safe keeping. The boat is currently undergoing treatment by the NMI's Conservation Unit.

Recently a sample was sent to the 14Chrono Centre in Queen's University Belfast which provided a date of circa 3300BC-2900BC. This logboat is one of only 11 logboats known to have been found in the Boyne but more importantly it is one of only 8 boats known from Ireland to date to the Neolithic period (c.4000 -2500 BC).

Record Source Brady 2016; Underwater Archaeology Unit Wreck Files

A good write up and more photos of the find can be found here: Oldbridge Logboat
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O0575 : Farmland in the Boyne Valley upriver of the Mary McAleese Bridge by Eric Jones — by Eric Jones
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O0575 : Boyne River Bridge, M1 motorway by HENRY CLARK — by HENRY CLARK
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O0575 : Powerlines entering Co Louth alongside the Mary McAleese Bridge by Eric Jones — by Eric Jones
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O0575 : The Boyne Navigation Sea Lock at Oldbridge, Co. Meath by JP — by JP
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O0575 : The Boyne Bridge by Wilson Adams — by Wilson Adams
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