School: Cloonlyon G. (roll number 12937)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Annie Burke
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- Pre-Christian
Earliest people of Mayo
Iberian Race - to them are attributed
dolman or cromlechs -
belts - the Cairn & mounds.
Earliest monuments show burnt remains
Then there was a period of burial followed
by burning of burial.
Burning was practiced to the Christian
period.
Firbolgs. Dark type.
Dolmens - Any period before history
Cairns 800 - 300 B.C.
Battle of Moytura.
Not long before Christian era.
Tain Bo Cuailogne - Fergus Mac Riogh driven out of Ulster was received by Culill & Maeve
& played an important part in these wars
on side of Connaught.