Index to 100 Objects of County Laois 2000BC In or around 2400 BC, a new dawn for humanity reached Ireland with the opening of the copper mines at Ross Island in County Kerry, one of the earliest such mines in Western Europe. Ireland rapidly became a major centre for copper production, marking the […]
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