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
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-----