ARCHAEOLOGY

MEDIEVAL CATTLE RAIDERS

t was not enough for medieval Irish lords to own cows, they also had to steal them. “Stealing cows was important in this society,”, which was composed in the seventh and eighth centuries. It tells the tale of a conflict between the kings of Connacht and the kings of Ulster over the Brown Bull of Cooley, which was owned by Daire, an Ulster chieftain.

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