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| The Visitors' Centre Modelled after a Neolithic House |
After some confusion as to whether the Visitors' Centre was open, we went inside to hear a short lecture and watch a short movie. Honestly though, the most amusing part of it was the guide and our professor having some banter about Cork vs. Dublin. But the woman was very nice and had some cool stories to tell us. Although I found it really unprofessional to say that the prehistoric people at Lough Gur worshiped false gods and were devils for throwing items in the lake for the symbolic act of ritual deposition.
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| The Shield Replica |
I loved learning about this Late Bronze Age shield. They only have the replica as the original is in the National Museum. However, the original has two holes, that have been somewhat patched over, in it as it was found when two brothers were marking their long jumps with their sickles.
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| The Only Non-Replicas (Besides, as she said, Our Guide) |
In fact the only originals that the place had were two metal flataxes. These were actually found somewhat by mistake by a teacher who was fishing at the lake.
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| Lough Gur Model |
To give you a sense of the scale of this site here is a photo of the topographical model of it. There are so many sites that we didn't see and I wish we had, but we only had so much time and we had to bus to the different sites we were seeing.
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