“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.
The Milesians are of the red thread of Zerah and settled Spain and Ireland when they had to flee due to the birth controversy. At the Babylonian captivity the tender twig merged with the red thread to continue the line of David's reign on David's throne, aided by Jeremiah and Baruch. Yes, northern Spain and Ireland should be related, as the tribe of Dan and the tribe of Judah are related.
It's nice to see that DNA studies are confirming what bible studiers have known for hundreds of years.
Parts of Ireland (most notably the western seaboard) have been almost untouched by outside genetic influence since hunter-gatherer times.
That's where three of my bloodlines are from. May account for the stubbornness. :)
Irish and German ancestors here. I’ll have to read this and find out how complex I am. LOL!
The obvious similarities of culture, pale skin, tendency to red hair have historically been prescribed to the two people’s sharing a common celtic ancestry.
Vikings?
Thanks for posting. I’d heard this before.
I am of Scottish descent and we (my family) have Rh (-) blood, a mutation and the origins of which can be traced to the Basque people who have 30% Rh (-) blood. It’s thought the original mutation started in Northern Spain and spread to the British Isles.