Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age. Archeological finds date first inhabitants to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC. The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations. And in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world. SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use 'sailing vessel ul-la') is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.
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