Scoil: Lurga, Patrick's Well (uimhir rolla 10317)
- Suíomh:
- Cill Cholmáin, Co. Luimnigh
- Múinteoir: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
Tagairt chartlainne
Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0527, Leathanach 007
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- XML “Famous Landmarks in the Lourriga District - Origin of Our Ancient Earthen Forts”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)to be the first country to smelt copper, 2,500 B.C,, and made the first flat hatchet. Gold was discovered in the reign of Tigheannmas, 1,620 B.C., and worn as ornaments in 1,332 B.C., so that the copper, bronze, gold and other Celtic antiquities, now seen in Scandinavia and Northern Europe were taken away by the Norsemen during their piratical raids on this country in the ninth and tenth centuries, and at a later period by Norman and English marauders, and the avaricious Henry V111 to enrich his coffers. The earthen forts, of which there are over 2,000 of them in Limerick, are generally attributed to those mythological people, the De Danans, whose God was Dana. Which owing to the similarity of Dana with Dane, gave rise to the error of naming them Danish forts. We know, however that a number of them were constructed in the reign of Brian Boru, and occupied up to the 14th Century.The cahers, or stone ring forts, are attributed to the Firbolgs, but it would be more correct to attribute them to the Firdomhnons or Ernai Raci. They can be assigned to the period 800 to 400 B.C., the late bronze age, at the end of which the iron age commenced. They were the precursors of our ancient walled towns, inside of which were generally built beehive stone huts, in which the inhabitants lived. The encircling walls protecting them from inclement weather, marauders, and wild(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
