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Castlepook’s Bone Chambers

Castlepook’s Bone Chambers

31,838 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s archaeological record in...

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Derryvree’s Sedge Marsh

Derryvree’s Sedge Marsh

31,833 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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Rivers, Kings and Fire

Rivers, Kings and Fire

The surviving record of 1089 is unusually vivid but far from complete. Irish annalists noted...

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Maguirebridge Mossland

Maguirebridge Mossland

The label 31,820 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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A Fragile Overkingship

A Fragile Overkingship

The surviving Irish annals make 1021 appear, at first glance, a year of short notices:...

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War Across the Shannon

War Across the Shannon

The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...

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Castlepook’s Reindeer Country

Castlepook’s Reindeer Country

Modern calendar notation gives the appearance of exactness that the evidence cannot sustain. No event...

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War Across the Provinces

War Across the Provinces

Ireland in 1084 was dominated by ambitious overkings, mobile armies and the struggle to turn...

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Before the Great Ice

Carden’s Reindeer Cut Mark

Modern calendar precision cannot be applied responsibly to Ireland in 31,957 BCE. This number is...

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The Silent Reindeer Femur

The Silent Reindeer Femur

The label “31,822 BCE” can only be used here as a modern way of locating...

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