School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 011
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock
- XML Page 011
- XML “Stone Age”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Stone AgeThe excavations taking place are leading to many discoveries and some give us and idea of first known man of Ireland. They belong to the Stone Age and go back two or three thousand years or more before the Christian era. This age is first of great periods of man's development in Ireland, when he used implements of rough unpolished stone. The caves in many parts of the country must be his home ( we have one in Lough Gur) There must be then hunters, fowlers and fishermen. About that time they began to use animals for domestic value. The more formidable beasts then alive were the bear, the wolf and Irish boar. The famous Irish Elk also roam the country and various kinds of birds existed that no longer survive.Examples of stone age burial lie scattered througout the country; the stones circles, cromlicks or giants graves of which we have several of the former and two of the latter. In Knockadoon we have three or four stone circles, Druids Temple, two stone circles at Lough Gur cross, two giant's graves in Killaloagh, two stone circles in Knockderk. Large mound at the foot of Knockderk and two Leagans
