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The population of Ireland at the end of the Bronze Age was probably in excess of 100,000, and may have been as high as 200,000. It is possible that it was not much greater than it had been at the height of the Neolithic. [citation needed] In Ireland, the Bronze Age lasted until c. 500 BC, later than in continental Europe and also Britain. [52]
Reconstruction of a British Iron Age Celtic roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm. Roundhouses were the standard form of housing built in Britain and Ireland from the Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age, and in some areas well into the Sub Roman period.
Mount Gabriel, Copper Mines Bronze Age 2200 BC - 600 BC; Murrahin North, Stone Alignment Bronze Age 2200 - 600 BC; Rathooragh, Ringfort Celtic Iron Age 600 BC - 400 AD; Rathruane, Ringfort Celtic Iron Age 600 BC - 400 AD; Rossbrin, O'Mahony Castle Medieval post 1200 AD; Skeagh, Passage Tomb 4000 - 2200 BC; Toormore, wedge Tomb Bronze Age 2200 ...
The ringfort at Rathrar in County Roscommon, Ireland The Grianán Ailigh in County Donegal, Ireland, is one of the more impressive stone-walled ringforts.. Ringforts or ring forts are small circular fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD.
The Bronze Age ends around the early to mid first millennium BCE, at which point ironworking is introduced, followed by a substantial decrease and eventual collapse in the production, circulation, and use of bronze tools and weapons and the beginning of the Iron Age. Bronze Age Britain and Ireland is usually dated to c. 2150–800 BCE ...
Mooghaun (Irish: Múchán) [1] is a late Bronze Age hill fort located in County Clare, Ireland. It is a well preserved, recently excavated site, occupying an entire hill with wide views of the surrounding lands. Believed to be the largest hill fort in Ireland, [2] it is one of the region's main tourist attractions.
The exhibit then covers the introduction of metallurgy into Ireland around 2500 BC, with early copper implements. The museum has a large array of later Bronze Age period axes, daggers, swords, shields, cauldrons and cast bronze horns (the earliest known Irish musical instruments). [18] There are a few very early Iron weapons.
The Dowris Hoard is the name of an important Bronze Age hoard of over 200 objects found in Dowris, County Offaly, Ireland. Items from the deposit are currently split between two institutions: the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin and the British Museum in London. [1] [2]