Derryvree’s Periglacial Pool
There was no Ireland in the political or cultural sense familiar from later history. No state, kingdom, tribe, language, named people or boundary can be identified. Even the word “Ireland” is a geographical convenience for the landmass now occupied by the island. Nor was this an era from which historians can extract chronicles, monuments, houses or graves. It belongs to the Late Pleistocene, far before the securely documented settlement record of the island.