Longford lecture on ‘The Stolen Treasures of Lough Ree’

Dr Harman Murtagh pictured with Bernadette Clancy at the inaugural Boat Gathering Festival weekend and the Lough Ree Environmental Summer School in Lanesboro / Ballyleague.

On the morning of Saturday April 29 at the new National Accessibility Centre for Water Sports on the North Quay of the river Shannon, Dr Murtagh delivered a lecture to coincide with the opening of ‘The Stolen Treasures of Lough Ree’.

This is an exhibition on the story behind the robbery of 5/6th century grave slabs from the island of Inchcleraun on Lough Ree in the late 1980s Picture: Shelley Corcoran