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Remains of the hill-fort of Elviña, including fortifications and a cistern, located within the city of A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain. 🇪🇸🇮🇪 Elviña has been identified as Brigantium, a city of the Artabri tribe of Gallaecia, who’d formerly belonged to the Celtici of Lusitania before migrating en masse to the north. The hill-fort was protected by three stone walls with watch-towers, and covered an area of 7-8 hectares. It appears to have been built in the 3rd century B.C; and inhabited until the 6th century AD, in spite of the Romans having built a replacement city nearby, which became modern A Coruña (from Celtiberian “Clunia”, meaning “meadow”). Brigantium features prominently in Irish origin myths, as the city supposedly founded by the ancestor figure Breogán (last image shows a modern statue of Breogán built near the old Roman lighthouse in A Coruña, known as the “Tower of Hercules”). According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Breogán and his people had settled in Iberia after a long period of wandering the world. Breogán’s great-grandsons later sailed to Ireland from Brigantium, and conquered it from the Tuatha Dé Danann, to avenge their relative Íth, who’d been murdered while traveling there. Later on, all Irish clans would claim descent from the two great-grandsons who survived the war: Eber Finn and Érimón. The term “Milesian” is often used to describe their purported descendants, deriving from the name of their father, Míl Espáine. Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://t.me/CelticEurope

Busy scene on Carlisle Bridge Dublin 1870

A bygone classroom in ireland

County Galway in 1902

The turnstile inside Nelson's Pillar O'Connell Street Dublin. Image from "And Nelson on his pillar" by William Bolger and Bernard Share.

The Great Men of the Sea... The late Seán Cheóinín (Jennings) (RIP) and his son Páraic Sean Cheóinín working on their French lobster pots at Leitir Ard, Carna, Connemara, Co. Galway, taken 65 years ago on 15th May 1959. Dan O Driscoll commented: "Barrel pots we called them. Supplied free by French merchants to Irish fishermen who would sell their catch to them. Large French tank boats would call to Harbours along the coast. The fishermen would bring their catch of lobsters and get paid by the bakers dozen. Not by weight. Lobsters were so plentiful then I often saw up to eight or ten in one pot when hauled up. The 50s and early 60s." © Photo is copyright and with many thanks to IrishPhotoArchive.

Ballycraigy, Carnmoney. Co Antrim. c1895. William McCartney (1797 - 1899) pictured at his home. (National Museums Northern Ireland)

Ireland 1903

Great weather for the bog! This photograph shows cartloads of turf for sale in front of the Browne Doorway, Eyre Square in the 1950s. Fáilte Ireland Tourism Photographic Collection. Courtesy of Dublin City Library & Archive.