“The earliest settlers came to Ireland around 10,000 years ago, in Stone Age times...”
The above is the most important statement of the whole article. You’re probably asking yourself, why?
Because the last Ice Age began to end around 15,000 years ago and the sea level was 400 feet lower than today. Ice extended as far south as Scotland and across to Ireland. The weight of that ice caused a ‘bulge’ in the earth’s crust to the south and west.
There was no English Channel filled with sea water - it was dry land and connected to Europe’s wide grazing space through Germany and Poland, fronting the northern ice sheet, and extending across Europe to above the Old Euxine Lake (later to become the New Euxine Sea [modern Black Sea]).
Ice age France had large glaciers in it’s central area and hunters from Spain probably followed game that retreated north up the western side of this ice, towards what is today the English Channel. People were already there, and to avoid territorial disputes, the migrants from Spain stayed far to the west and moved up the western parts of present day Ireland towards land which later would be flooded by the rising sea.
Land west of present day Ireland was later flooded by the rising sea level combined with subsidence, as the ice sheet ‘bulge’ slowly disappeared. The sea flooded into areas formerly grazing land connecting England to the continent, and today the bones of those now extinct creature, the mammoths and wooly rhinos, are brought up by fishermen in the North Sea and English Channel.
I have already linked in to ‘godsgravesglyphs’. Seemed a good match.
I was listening to a podcast and the author said the natives of Britain in stone age times would gather hazelnuts by cutting the trees down.