Re: Ancient Irish Pipes?

From: Tedd Jacobs (Jacobs_at_mail.boisestate.edu)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:36:55 -0700

<NeilJackman@gmail.com> wrote...
> It'd be nice to think so but I wouldnt be sure, a 'rath' is the Irish
> Gaelic for ringfort by the way, seeing as there are so many of them,
> and all pretty much on agricultural land its not too suprising to see
> how many bits of pipe there are. An answer could be that as such sites
> were, and still are respected by the vast majority of landowners (the
> raths/ringforts were seen as fairy forts and it was believed that to
> disturb one would bring terrible bad luck, it still does, but in the
> form of a massive fine for damaging archaeological remains!), that the
> farm workers sat on them for a break, smoking their pipes and dropping
> the remains for archaeologists to find a century or so later. Ive been
> told of people leaving gifts of bread to the wee folk on certain days,
> but not pipes as far as I know. Are you posting from Ireland by the way?
>

neil,
    speaking of posting... would you mind not snipping all of the orginal
text. i for one am interested in what you have to say on certain topics,
but find it difficult to follow when you erase all of the previous
message(s).

thanks in advance,

tedd.

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