Neolithic Tombs In Galway
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Good evening and welcome. We're Talking History on News Talk 106 2108 with me, Patrick Gagan. In tonight's show, some remarkable archaeological discoveries in Galway that are transforming our understanding of Ireland's first farming communities, how politics shaped James Joyce, and Aspasia, the remarkable woman who may have taught Socrates everything he knew about love. You can email us your thoughts and views to talkinghistory at newstalk.com and we'd like to. Love to hear from you. And we begin tonight's show with the remarkable discovery of rare Neolithic tombs in Galway. Archaeologists from the University of Galway have uncovered what appears to be the only known example in Ireland where a court tomb and a portal tomb stand side by side, dating back almost 6,000 years.
Alongside the monuments are remarkable discoveries, including stone tools, cremated bone, and a unique Amethyst pendant. The project is led by Dr. Michelle Comer and Dr. Noel McCarthy, who both lecture in archaeology at the University of Galway, and it's an excavation in the Marie area of Galway, and it reveals two different types of megalithic tombs. I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Michelle Comer and Dr. Noel McCarthy to the show tonight. Noel, can we talk about this project and the significance and what you're What are we trying to do with Marray land use through time?
Well, the main overall project is designed to to look at the Mare Peninsula as a whole unit to see How the landscape changes. Obviously, the current excavation is looking at the very, very earliest farmers that come into the landscape. But we do have evidence on the peninsula going back as early as the Mesolithic period. So there's some artifacts from that time period. So the project is to look at absolutely everything we can. So it's not designed to be tied to a specific time period. Um it's looking at the region, and it's a very interesting region. Because it juts out into the eastern part of Galway Bay. So it's in one way it's contained because it has sea on three sides, but on the flip side, it's very, very accessible because obviously that sea is then a perfect routeway to access the area while still being able to use land-based routeways to move inland.
Now, the interesting thing about Murray as well, it's actually at the the western end of the Esquerida or the Schle Moor, so that ridge of um eskers that goes across the country and ties east and west of Ireland. So we're at the very very western tip of that. So Murray, although it appears today to be jutting out into the eastern part of Galway Bay, is actually a very connected place to the wider world, particularly if you consider a seafaring or sort of a an uh a sea navigation route where you could go along the western coast of Ireland into the fairly um protected Galway Bay and then right up to the east end here where this the soils are actually very good on the peninsula. You've good farmland and it would have been an attractive place to live across all parts of time.
Now, obviously Galway Bay has changed shape over the many, many millennia, going back to the Mesolithic period, but we would still never have been far from the sea, for example, because we have Muiloom Bay right beside us, which would have been at the very least a river leading to the Galway Bay as it was in the earliest times.
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