athenian1977 Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Personally I'm not sure about it... Anyone who could help ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLavius Valerius Constantinus Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Here, read this from UNRV Hibernia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 The promontory fort in Drumanagh, Ireland, although stated as being of Roman appearance, does not appear so to me - there is no evidence as far as I can see of the standard street layout, or of regular, planned layout of ramparts and ditches. It appears to me to be a typical Iron Age fort. Once again, I refer to Google Earth with regard to this - see the image in my gallery and feel free to comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 The image doesnt appear to have the remotest resemblance to anything Roman, only the accident of nature which lead to its position here gives any regularity. I wonder how much coastline change has occured here? NN do you have an image for the "new" Flavian find on your home patch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEGYPTUS Posted June 25, 2006 Report Share Posted June 25, 2006 (edited) I am from Ireland. As far as I know the only thing that is even remotley Roman is a Roman trade post found a while back outside Dublin. They found a few Roman Coins and shard of Pottery. Edited June 25, 2006 by AEGYPTUS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted June 25, 2006 Report Share Posted June 25, 2006 I am from Ireland. As far as I know the only thing that is even remotley Roman is a Roman trade post found a while back outside Dublin. They found a few Roman Coins and shard of Pottery. Do you have any local history net links to the "trade post" site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEGYPTUS Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Here is a link http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/irelan...y/iron_age.html Go to Roman Influences and Irish Colonies 2nd paragraph it is mentioned. As I said before it was found a good while ago I read about it briefly in the newspaper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Thanks AEGYPTUS Just a side note though, (from the article) "Finally, it is certain that Ogham, the first written scripts in the Irish language, was based on the Latin alphabet"... -and- "Called Ogham script, it consists of a series of grooves on the corner of a stone. Each combination of grooves represents a different letter of the Latin alphabet" What a wreckless and ill-informed assertion! Ogham is not 'based' on Latin, it is a completely different writing system; as different from the Latin alphabet as heiroglyphics is from Greek. Just because Christian monks wrote primers for Ogham in Latin doesn't make it based on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 My grandfather, in tracing our family liniage made a guess that our name, (meaning "from Jilton") was referencing an old Roman town somewhere in Ireland. I don't know how true this is, lol. Although to look at certain members of our family, it makes sense. We supposedly don't have a drop of Italian blood in us, but my aunt looks far more Italian than Irish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 My grandfather, in tracing our family liniage made a guess that our name, (meaning "from Jilton") was referencing an old Roman town somewhere in Ireland. I don't know how true this is, lol. Although to look at certain members of our family, it makes sense. We supposedly don't have a drop of Italian blood in us, but my aunt looks far more Italian than Irish. Magilton I assume? You could easily have a Spanish gene! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 (edited) Not to contradict UNRV, but to ask a question. After Patrick escaped didn't he go to Gaul, where he became a bishop and then returned to Ireland to convert the people? Lost_Warrior, think of Costello and Eamon de Valera and a little sea battle that went wrong for the Spanish. If you have a drop of Italian blood, you are quite fortunate. Just a drop will improve any race. Edited June 29, 2006 by Gaius Octavius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 LW this may be of interest to you http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=879 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 McJilton, sometimes misspelled McGilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotWotius Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Maybe this article may add fuel to the debate. I personally think its quite convincing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I am just trying to quickly get through "Later Roman Britain" by S Johnson (out of print), this gives some weight to the raiding of Britain from Ireland, particularly with the establishment of settlements of Scotti in Wales and Scotland (areas ,of course ,as generally unromanised as the point of origin). So we must take care on evidential finds in Ireland as they may be inter tribe movement of goods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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