Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — Ancient Boats in Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Boats in Ireland.

Ireland seems to be the burying ground of an ancient navy. Another of those remarkable boats, hewn out of the trunk of an oak, and nearly fifty feet long, has recently been found, in a fine state of preservation, by men cutting peat in County Mayo. The peat seems to have wonderful preservative powers, the boat being thought by antiquarians to be twenty centuries old.