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A Historiography of the Irish Crannog: The Discovery of Lagore as Prologue to Wood-Martin's Lake Dwellings of Ireland of 1886

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

C Stephen Briggs
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The nineteenth century development of Irish crannog studies, attitudes to archaeological research and traits in public and private artefact collecting are examined through the parts played by several leading antiquaries and institutions in the 1839 discovery and later exploitation of Lagore, near Dunshaughlin, County Meath. Connections between Irish and Swiss antiquaries are noted, and contemporary attitudes to their respective ‘lake dwelling’ discoveries contrasted.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 79 , September 1999 , pp. 347 - 377
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1999

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