#LoughCorrib - Experts surveying a site in Lough Corrib have found a wealth of ancient water craft and other artefacts, including a log boat dating back some 4,500 years.

As The Irish Times reports, Heritage Minister Jimmy Deenihan has described as "exceptional" the finds that include vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as medieval craft and weapons of the style used by Viking settlers.

But the star of the show is surely the Annaghkeen log boat, a dugout canoe made from a single massive tree trunk that's almost identical to the similarly aged Lurgan log boat, which was found not far away in Co Galway over a century ago and now housed in the National Museum at Leinster House.

It's now being posited that both boats, as well as the Carrowneden boat found near Ballyhaunis in 1996, may be the work of the same builder.

The Irish Times has much more on the story HERE.