Abstract
OUR knowledge of the post-glacial prehistory of northern Ireland is summarised by Mr. C. Blake Whelan in a recent communication to the Société Préhistorique francaise (Bull. 1931, 7.8). Although Chellean and Acheulean do not appear, it is possible to find in the gravels of north-east Ireland rare and doubtful specimens which appear to be humanly worked and may be examples of a pre-Mousterian, or even older, culture. The interesting Clactonian station of Rosses Point, Sligo, is an example. Yet up to the present, undoubted evidence of a true Mousterian of the Laufen interval between Wiirm I. and II. appears to be lacking. Man may have retreated southward and not returned until the great glaciations had definitely retreated from Ireland.
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