Interesting Things Thread

Oversight is on it twice, I’m not sure if it was an oversight, or a lack there of.

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That’s them. Bastards.

A map of Croke Park Dublin published in the Liberator newspaper(Tralee Co. Kerry) for those intending to listen to the All Ireland Final on the wireless in 1937. #Ireland
The final went to a replay with Kerry beating Cavan.

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A fix, iirc

Hill 16 is in the wrong place.

It would take 3 seconds to download @myboyblue post history

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Indias average Internet speed is better than ours if thats the case.

Japanese will probably use it for download weird porn. Be handy for whoever takes over the island when they go extinct I suppose

That’s where it was originally.

These lads obviously aren’t with Eir

You’d be an expert on Hills I suppose?

Baltinglass. Fucking protestants at it again.

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Shur tis the crowd in QUB doing it, wouldnt ya know.

A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the “largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain”.

Researchers at Belfast’s Queen’s University also contend that the site, just south of Dublin, is Ireland’s earliest proto-town. It is thought to be two millennia older than the Viking towns that were previously believed to be the earliest urban settlements on the island of Ireland.

The hillfort cluster features a “necklace” of up to 13 hilltop forts, including seven major hillforts, as well as other enclosures spanning the early Neolithic to late Bronze Age (c 3700–800 BC), near the town of Baltinglass. The Queen’s University-led study examined existing archaeological data from Brusselstown Ring, as well as conducting new excavations.

It found that terrestrial survey work carried out within the past decade had detected 288 potential hut sites, but aerial surveys from 2017 and 2022 indicated more than 600 topographical anomalies consistent with prehistoric house platforms. The existing data have been combined with the results of new ground excavations to locate 98 potential roundhouse footprints within the inner enclosure, with a possible further 509 between the inner and outer enclosing elements.

The team carried out radiocarbon dating, which suggested occupation at Brusselstown Ring during the Late Bronze Age, between c 1210 and 780 BC, with continued use or re-use of some house platforms up to the Early Iron Age (c 750–400 BC). Dr Dirk Brandherm from Queen’s has argued that even if not every one of the anomalies represented a roundhouse, this would still make it the largest nucleated prehistoric settlement in Ireland and Britain by some distance.

He said only a handful of other sites have more than a few dozen roundhouse footprints and not all of them are enclosed. Evidence was also uncovered to suggest a boat-shaped topographical anomaly may have been a water cistern, consistent with Iron and Bronze Age cisterns from other parts of Europe.

Fieldwork at Brusselstown remains ongoing.

Told you it was them

And nucleated, no less…

Did the Bronze Age lads take a train across Britain to set up the fort in Wickla?

Don’t mention the war. The greens will be up protesting against it

They walked up from Galica sure, we’d have been the first stop