Bog body

[Norm-Peterson]

https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2024/0125/1428560-bog-body-derry/#:~:text=Experts%20say%20a%20body%20found,dating%20to%20establish%20their%20age.

It seems that noone has posted about this, people must be more interested in discussing English soccer and unionist politics.

There were parts of a human body discovered near Lough Beg putting South Derry on the archeological map.

What I am curious about is what tribe this ancient South Derry boy was from or what kingdom he lived in. This person lived as far back as 500BC before any detailed Irish maps I can find. We know that before the Cenél nEógain moved Eastwards modern South Derry was home to a people called the  UI Tuirtre. They were here when St. Patrick was here but that still would have been 500-1000 years after this bog body was alive. Maybe he was a relative of those people or part of another tribe altogether.

[J70]

The Mount Sandel site 25 miles down the lower Bann in Coleraine has evidence of human settlement from 9000 years ago, not long after the retreat of the ice sheets, 6500 years before this one.