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AN IRISH NEOLITHIC BOG OAK DUGOUT CANOE Rev Auld is best known as the former owner of ‘Ireland’s smallest
Typically carved fro m a single log timber, some losses, 209cm long, church’, an unlikely tourist attraction which the retired religious studies
60cm wide. teacher and former mayor of North Down, built St Gobban’s at his
summer home in the coastal townland of Portbradden in the Sixties.
£2,000 - 3,000
€2,400 - 3,500 In 1902 an oak logboat over 15m long and 1m wide, was found at
Addergoole Bog, Lurgan, County Galway, Ireland, and delivered to the
Footnote: from the estate of the Rev Con Auld. In the 1970s Rev Auld National Museum of Ireland. The Lurgan boat radiocarbon date was
was driving through rural county Fermanagh when he noticed a group 3940 +/- 25 BP. T
of boys tending a bonfire. On closer inspection, it transpired that the
firewood being used was a number of bog oak canoes which had We would like to acknowledge the advice of Dr Greer Ramsey of the
recently been uncovered by contractors who were constructing a road. Ulster Museum with regard to this item.
Anxious for this piece of Irish history not to be lost for ever, the Rev
Auld negotiated a price for this canoe with this boys and drove of with
it in his trailer.

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