Dr. Muiris O’Sullivan

Must be some shipwrecks. Or two or whatever. So they were checking if anything like that could be seen. What they found were actually a very large number of circular stones, which turned out to be tires. Wow. This is odd. There seems to have been nothing lost along the way.

So if, whether this is a sign that they were particularly good in terms of how they managed all this process, or maybe it suggests that it wasn't along the river at all. There might be some other way they came.

So if, whether this is a sign that they were particularly good in terms of how they managed all this process, or maybe it suggests that it wasn't along the river at all. There might be some other way they came.

So if, whether this is a sign that they were particularly good in terms of how they managed all this process, or maybe it suggests that it wasn't along the river at all. There might be some other way they came.

We don't really know, but we know that they got the stone from A to B. It was quite a challenge because they either had to go around Dundalk Bay or go across Dundalk Bay or something like that. They had to find some way of getting the material in, you know, so it was a tricky process.

We don't really know, but we know that they got the stone from A to B. It was quite a challenge because they either had to go around Dundalk Bay or go across Dundalk Bay or something like that. They had to find some way of getting the material in, you know, so it was a tricky process.

We don't really know, but we know that they got the stone from A to B. It was quite a challenge because they either had to go around Dundalk Bay or go across Dundalk Bay or something like that. They had to find some way of getting the material in, you know, so it was a tricky process.

And these were enormous stones, and then they had to deal with the rivers along the way, whether they brought them along the rivers or across the rivers. But... It was massive, and this had to be done with, in the case of the Boyne Valley, I count hundreds and hundreds of large stones, each travelling individually.

And these were enormous stones, and then they had to deal with the rivers along the way, whether they brought them along the rivers or across the rivers. But... It was massive, and this had to be done with, in the case of the Boyne Valley, I count hundreds and hundreds of large stones, each travelling individually.

And these were enormous stones, and then they had to deal with the rivers along the way, whether they brought them along the rivers or across the rivers. But... It was massive, and this had to be done with, in the case of the Boyne Valley, I count hundreds and hundreds of large stones, each travelling individually.

Hammerstones, and presumably using fire and water maybe to break them as well. But then you have to use this sort of activity carefully because... You don't want to damage the actual stone you're using or leave that all cracked and so forth, you know. So they seem to have known what they were at.

Hammerstones, and presumably using fire and water maybe to break them as well. But then you have to use this sort of activity carefully because... You don't want to damage the actual stone you're using or leave that all cracked and so forth, you know. So they seem to have known what they were at.

Hammerstones, and presumably using fire and water maybe to break them as well. But then you have to use this sort of activity carefully because... You don't want to damage the actual stone you're using or leave that all cracked and so forth, you know. So they seem to have known what they were at.

But then everything about these people tells me that they knew what they were at because the whole logistics, as you say, of bringing these large stones and extracting them and placing them in position and so forth, that was an enormous exercise.

But then everything about these people tells me that they knew what they were at because the whole logistics, as you say, of bringing these large stones and extracting them and placing them in position and so forth, that was an enormous exercise.

But then everything about these people tells me that they knew what they were at because the whole logistics, as you say, of bringing these large stones and extracting them and placing them in position and so forth, that was an enormous exercise.

The strange thing about it is that I always think that if you take a pebble from the seaside, a small pebble that's maybe five millimeters across or at most maybe seven or eight millimeters across, and now without modern technology, you now have the job of actually boring a hole through the center of that pebble in order to make a bead.

The strange thing about it is that I always think that if you take a pebble from the seaside, a small pebble that's maybe five millimeters across or at most maybe seven or eight millimeters across, and now without modern technology, you now have the job of actually boring a hole through the center of that pebble in order to make a bead.

The strange thing about it is that I always think that if you take a pebble from the seaside, a small pebble that's maybe five millimeters across or at most maybe seven or eight millimeters across, and now without modern technology, you now have the job of actually boring a hole through the center of that pebble in order to make a bead.

And I think that's an extraordinary sort of a piece of activity, so to speak, by someone back in the Stone Age. And they have done this repeatedly, so presumably they had techniques. I think if you place that then onto a larger scale with the megalithic tombs, they knew how to handle stone.