Summary: Evidence of Migrations
Key dates:
Bronze is made by mixing tin and copper. There was not enough in Ireland to satisfy demands of the later Bronze Age industry. As a result, it appears that tin was imported from Cornwall.
The discovery of the skull of a Barbary Ape at Navan Fort may suggest that this was a gift from the King of Spain or from someone in North Africa to one of equivalent status in Ulster. This may have been the King of Ulster.
The Celtic tribes of Central Europe expanded rapidly in the early Iron Age; some went north and west to Britain and then on to Ireland. Some of them may have arrived in Ireland via Spain.
There is evidence of trade with the expanding Roman Empire.
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