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Turoe and Athenry:
Ancient Capitals of Celtic Ireland

By Fr. Tom O’Connor

Edited by Dr. Kieran Jordan


INTRODUCTION

  • The Ulidian Tales, Ireland’s oldest legends, tell of continuous warfare between Ulster and Connaught.
     
  • Ptolemy’s 1st Century A.D. map of Ireland shows a Royal site in Galway.
     
  • The Turoe Stone, the best Celtic stone artwork in Europe, was found in Galway.
     
  • Ireland’s oldest origin legends tell of the Fir Belg invasion through the Iron Age seaport near Clarinbridge and the establishment of a Royal site in Galway.
     
  • Ptolemy’s ‘most illustrious city in all Britannia’ was in Galway.
     
  • Yet, despite all this evidence, Irish history books do not record anything of interest in Galway during the Iron Age.
     
  • This new book (launch date: July 13th 2003) describes and shows evidence for extensive linear fortifications, an extensive ancient road network and several ROYAL sites, all in Galway.
     
  • This evidence, along with the documentary, legendary and oral history evidence, indicates that Galway was of immense importance during the Iron Age in Ireland.

Book Launch PHOTOGRAPHS (July 13th 2003)

Book Launch PRESS RELEASE (July 18th 2003)

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