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The population of Ireland at the end of the Bronze Age was probably in excess of 100,000, and may have been as high as 200,000. It is possible that it was not much greater than it had been at the height of the Neolithic. [citation needed] In Ireland, the Bronze Age lasted until c. 500 BC, later than in continental Europe and also Britain. [52]
Gold lunula from Blessington, Ireland, Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, c. 2400BC – 2000BC, Classical group. A gold lunula (pl. gold lunulae) was a distinctive type of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and—most often—early Bronze Age necklace, collar, or pectoral shaped like a crescent moon.
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) 9: Bronze Age funerary pots: 1900–1300 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) 10: Tara torcs: c. 1200 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) [4] 11: Mooghaun hoard: c. 800 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, and ...
The exhibit then covers the introduction of metallurgy into Ireland around 2500 BC, with early copper implements. The museum has a large array of later Bronze Age period axes, daggers, swords, shields, cauldrons and cast bronze horns (the earliest known Irish musical instruments). [18] There are a few very early Iron weapons.
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin: 3 gold bracelets 1 gold dress-fastener [7] Mooghaun North Hoard: Late Bronze Age near Mooghaun Fort, County Clare: 1854 Mostly lost; 29 pieces in National Museum of Ireland and British Museum Probably over 200 gold objects, mostly plain bar bracelets, with torcs, collars and ingots [8]
By the onset of the Bronze Age, it appears that Newgrange was no longer being used by the local population, who did not leave any artifacts in the structure or bury their dead there. O'Kelly stated, "by 2000 [BC] Newgrange was in decay and squatters were living around its collapsing edge". [ 40 ]
The ringfort at Rathrar in County Roscommon, Ireland The Grianán Ailigh in County Donegal, Ireland, is one of the more impressive stone-walled ringforts.. Ringforts or ring forts are small circular fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD.
Bronze Age Ireland followed a similar, yet distinct course. The Early Bronze Age in the British Isles was marked by the adoption of what archaeologists call the "Beaker culture", which had arrived from continental Europe. Eogan noted that the "evidence from archaeology is that Beaker-using communities were the earliest metallurgists in Britain ...