The Brendan boat A 40-minute trip to Craggaunown castle – a classic Irish fortified Tower House was well worth it as the woodland was full of primroses, bluebells and unfurling ferns. In the grounds they’re recreated a traditional crannog – Iron Age era artificial islands created as a defence from marauding neighbours.
Tim Severin’s boat, The Brendan, is on display here. He sailed this ash and cow hide boat to America in 1976 to show that St Brendan could have reached America in the 6th century as suggested in a 9th century Irish manuscript – beating Columbus by a thousand years and Leif Eriksson by 400 years – but not the native American Indians!
Tim Severin’s boat, The Brendan, is on display here. He sailed this ash and cow hide boat to America in 1976 to show that St Brendan could have reached America in the 6th century as suggested in a 9th century Irish manuscript – beating Columbus by a thousand years and Leif Eriksson by 400 years – but not the native American Indians!
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