Rathlin Island
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 01, 2021 03:14 PM
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History
An island offshore from modern Northern Ireland with evidence of human habitation stretching back to the Mesolithic period. It is one possible identification for an ancient "Riginia" island mentioned in ancient sources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423742643
55.2911175384, -6.21604514241
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Rathlin Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Rathlin Island (English, modern)
- Reachlainn (Irish, modern)
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Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Rathlin Island: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423742643> [accessed: 11 October 2024]
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