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Historic location

  • 31-08-2020 3:54pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone have any good theories as to why there is such concentration of ring-forts and other historic sites around Rathangan?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Proximity to the curragh and bog of allen possibly?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Kevhog1988
    Very possibly.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    Maybe there was high population density there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Well it was the home turf of the Uí Fealain (sp,?) sept, and the area was actual land in a relatively huge area of undrained bog so it would have been des res.


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