Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

National Museum of Ireland: Discussion

12:00 pm

Mr. Raghnall Ó Floinn:

It is a flint hand-axe. It is the oldest implement ever found on Irish soil but is actually from a gravel quarry in County Louth. It was brought in the last glaciation from the middle of the Irish Sea. It is about the closest we can get to-----