Posted on 12/24/2010 12:01:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/51.htm ~ ignore the Pict part ~ it’s irrelevant. The analyst is trying to call the seagoing Celts who traveled from the Danube to the Mediterranean to Spain by the term Cluthne. And, maybe they were, and maybe they weren’t. The Galatian records in Spain don’t accord them that name, but they do identify the Sons of Ir (the Milesians) as being the first invaders of Ireland and Britain in roughly 700 BC.
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