Builg (ethnic group)

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The Builg are a Celtic people who lived around 500 BC. Chr. Populated Ireland . As a tribe from Great Britain, the Builg can be assigned to the language group of the P-Celtic languages, which is a culturally relevant difference to the Gaelic people , who lived around 100 BC. Moved from Brittany to Ireland.

The Builg and the History of Ireland

From the 8th century BC Ireland was the scene of a number of waves of Celtic invasions and migrations, with the Builg representing the second wave of Celtic invaders according to the model of Irish prehistory developed in 1946 by the Celtologist Thomas F. O'Rahilly . Unlike the 700 BC Cruithne , who had arrived in Ireland from Great Britain and apparently assimilated relatively non-violently with the population in the vicinity of Leinster and Ulster , conquered Ireland. Four sub-tribes can be distinguished:

  • the Uluti , who moved to the northern part of Ireland and gave the country Ulster its name, building their capital near present-day Navan ;
  • the Darini and Robogdii , who jointly occupied Antrim and North Down and had extensive relations with Scotland ;
  • the Iverni , who controlled Munster; and
  • the Ebdani , which remained on the east coast of Ireland and some of which claim that they inhabited an area on which what would later become Dublin was founded.

The supremacy of the Builg on Ireland was about 300 BC. Upset by the arrival of the Lagin , Domnainn and Gálioin . The Lagin in particular preferred to settle in the areas of Connacht , which were sparsely populated by the Builg . The Builg rule there was overthrown by the Langinian king Cairbre in the (Second) Battle of Mag Tuired (in Sligo ). Gradually, however, a mode of coexistence between Lagin and Builg seems to have developed, which lasted until the arrival of the fourth Celtic invasion, the Gael.

The Gael, which can be divided into two tribes called Connachta and Eoganachta , reached Ireland in the 1st century BC. The Connachta followed the River Boyne upstream and finally reached Tara , the royal seat of the Builg of Leinster. There they defeated the local Bolgian king and from then on ruled over most of Leinster. The Eoganachta occupied the sparsely populated southwest of Ireland by the Builg, although indications can be found that there were friendly relations and that Builg and Eoganachta ruled Munster together.

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