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Rebecca Black

Wicklow hillfort declared ‘largest nucleated settlement’ in prehistoric Ireland

The study of Brusselstown Ring has estimated that the site could be two millennia older than the Viking towns thought to be the earliest settlements on the island of Ireland (Queen’s University Belfast/PA) -

A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the “largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain”.

Researchers at Belfast’s Queen’s University also contend that the site, just south of Dublin, is Ireland’s earliest proto-town.

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