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The site has been described as the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland and is claimed to contain the oldest known field systems globally. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Using various dating methods, it has been stated that the creation and development of the Céide Fields went back approximately 5500 years (~3500 BCE), [ 4 ] some 2,500 years before this type ...
The most famous ancient field system in Ireland is the Céide Fields, an extensive series of stone walls dating back to 3500 BC. Similar stone wall field systems dating back to the Atlantic Bronze Age are visible in western Ireland and on the Aran Islands. [6] [7]
Celtic field is an old name for traces of early (prehistoric) agricultural field systems found in North-West Europe, i.e. Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states. The fields themselves are not related to the Celtic culture. [1]
Rundale clachan patterns of settlement still visible in Inver, Kilcommon, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. The rundale system (apparently from the Irish Gaelic words "roinn" which refers to the division of something and "dáil", in the sense of apportionment) was a form of occupation of land in Ireland, somewhat resembling the English common field system.
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.
Darren Limbert, Irish Ringforts: A review of their Origins in Archaeological Journal, 153, 1996, pp. 243–289; CJ Lynn Some Early Ringforts and crannógs in The Journal of Irish Archaeology, I, 1983, p. 47–58; Eoin MacNeill Ancient Irish Law: The Law of Status or Franchise" in the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXXVI, C, 1923 pp. 365–316
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The Céide Fields [11] [12] [13] is an archaeological site on the north County Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about 7 kilometres northwest of Ballycastle, and the site is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland and contains the oldest known field systems in the world.