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Of the 216 sites with personal ornaments, 136 produced one or more beads. Fifty-one of
these produced just a single bead, but others had larger quantities – in some cases
considerably larger, as shown in Table 7.6. All site types produced beads (see Fig. 7.6), and
the geographical distribution includes all four modern provinces (Fig. 7.7).
Fig. 7.6: beads by site types (136 sites)
Site Site type Beads Reference
Lagore, Co. Meath crannog 161 (136 glass, 1 lignite, 2 shale, 16
amber, 6 bone)
Hencken 1950, 132-45,
150-1, 170, 175, 196
Deer Park Farms,
Co. Antrim
Raised 89 (86 glass, 3 amber) Lynn & McDowell 2011,
330-9
Knowth, Co. Meath Raised 89 (48 glass, 6 stone, 6 amber, 29 bone) Barton-Murray 2012, 244-
7, 251-6
Glencurran, Co. Clare other 69 glass Dowd 2005
Ballinderry II, crannog 30 (14 glass & 16 amber) Hencken 1942, 13, 51-2
Co. Offaly
Garryduff, Co. Cork Univallate 29 (28 glass, 1 amber) O’Kelly 1963, 70-2, 74-8
Carraig Aille II,
Co. Limerick
Cashel 29 (25 glass, 2 bone, 1 stone, 1 jet) Ó Ríordáin 1949, 83, 87,
89-91, 95
Parknahown, Co. Cemetery/ At least 17 (15 glass, bone plural) O’Neill 2009
Laois
settlement
Cahercommaun, cashel 17 (6 glass, 1 lignite, 3 shale, 5 bone, 2 Hencken 1938, 38-41
Co. Clare
antler)
Whiterath 2, Co. multivallate 16 (14 bone, 2 amber) Ó Drisceoil 2000
Louth
Moynagh Lough, Crannog At least 15 (at least 14 glass, 1 amber) Bradley 2011, 16, 22, 25-6
Co. Meath
Cloghermore,
Other 14 (3 glass, 1 stone, 6 amber, 1 ivory, 3 Connolly & Coyne 2005
Co. Kerry
bone)
Roestown, Co. Meath Non-circular 13 (12 glass, 1 amber) O’Hara 2009
Garranes, Co. Cork multivallate 12 (10 glass, 2 amber) Ó Ríordáin 1942, 116-8,
121
Rathtinaun, Co. Sligo crannog At least 10 (2 glass, 1 lead, 1 clay, amber
plural, stone plural, bone plural)
Raftery undated
Dooey, Co. Donegal other At least 10 glass Ó Ríordáin & Rynne 1961
Table 7.6: sites with large quantities of beads
As previously noted, beads occur in burials at Parknahown (and also at Raystown, where
quantities were smaller); this is also the case at Cloghermore. The necklace of 69 Viking Age
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