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Unit 11 Land , People and History Geography,Land and Environment Ireland is a small island off the northwest coast of Great Britain,ddivided from Scotland by a narrow strait of water. Today,when people use the word Ireland they may mean the whole island,which is actually divided into two quite distinct jurisdictions,that of Northern Ireland,which is a povince of Great Britain, and the present Republic of Ireland. Ireland Population The rural landscape of Ireland is highly populated,but mostly by ghosts. Although the visitor may believe himself alone in a landscape that looks not only uninhabited but even positively wild,he will find that every field has a name and a history,and that often the wild undergrowth will conceal a Stone Age ring fort or an old field wall or the outlines of a farmhouse or even a deserted village. Prehistory The earliest settler arrived around 7000 BC in the Mesolithic or middle Stone Age period. Evidence suggests that they arrived in the nonth of the island,across the narrow strait from northern Britain.these people were mainly huners. Rival colonialists of the Neolithic,or new Stone Age ,period reached Irelang around 3000BC. these were farmers who raised animals and cultivated the soil. The Celts It is important to emphasize that ireland already had quite a sophisticated before the which were to transform it radically;that of the celts. it is believed that the celtics,originally thougt to be in the invaders , gradually into i Ireland along established trade routes ,perhaps as early as the 6th infiltraded into Inland along established century BC,with subsequent groups arriving up to the time of Christ ,about 2 thousand years ago. The Coming of Christainity Christainity was introduced into Ireland some time in the 5th century. Traditionally it was said to have been brought by Saint Patrick.Although there were some Christainity in Ireland before arrival,by the time of his death in 461AD,much of the island was effectively Christain. The Midd