_GAELIC IRISH HERALDRY and HERALDIC PRACTICE_
(http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article03.html)
By _Pat Brennan_ (mailto:PBrennan48@aol.com)
"For it is there read, that the whole host was wont to be placed under the
command of one captain-in-chief, and that under him, each division of his
force obeyed its own proper captain; and besides, that every captain of these
bore upon his standard his peculiar device or ensign." - From the Description
of the Battle of Magh Rath (637 AD) in Keating
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>From Tony O'Shaughnessy R1b1b2e
Congratulations to Linda Merle on her contribution to the "Sectarian" discussion.
My comments below are made from the limitations of my Gaelic Irish Catholic background, looking out at other world views opened up to me through DNA testing. The context is also the narrow one of the R1b1b2e connection between Ireland & Scotland and the predominance of R1b1b2e in the Northern Half of Ireland, that is the half dominated in ancient times by the Gaelic Connachta elite.
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