In a message dated 8/19/2011 2:26:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pconroy63@gmail.com writes: I've no idea where M222 originated, but I'd speculate it was among the Belgae tribes of the Rhine... I found an old post of Paul's that referred to a book by Tom O'Connor entitled "Hand of History - Burden of Pseudo-History..Touchstone of truth. You can read a little about it from this web site: _http://www.handofhistory.com/_ (http://www.handofhistory.com/) "Two ancient roadways, Slighe Mór and Slighe Dála, converged on Turoe/Knocknadala. Rot na Ri, the Royal Road of the Kings, ran straight from Turoe/Knocknadala to the renowned ancient seaport of Ath Cliath Magh Rí at Clarenbridge in Galway Bay. Legendary history states that " Ath Cliath Magh Rí was the chief seaport of Ireland through which Ireland has most often been invaded ' 6 . A dindshenchas tale tells that " the swift ships which sailed the high seas frequented Ath Cliath Magh Ri in Galway of the harbours " 7 . It was there that a large segment of the Celtic invasion force landed before advancing on Turoe, the core of its primary settlement area, as recorded in the dindshenchas of Cnoc na Dála 5 . Several segments of Belgic tribes from Britain and the Continent, such as the Manapi, the Atrebates and the Canti (from Kent), are remembered in townland names within this vast Turoe oppidum complex. Who were these Celts and where did they come from? Large segments of the Northern Continental Belgae fled to southeast England from Roman and Germanic conquest in Caesar's time. In 27/26 BC as preparations for a massive Roman invasion of Britain proceeded some considerable way before being cancelled, Commius, king of Belgae in the Silchester, Winchester and Chichester/ Selsey regions of the south of England, led a folk-movement of his subjects to the Shannon estuary in the West of Ireland. There they are recorded by Ptolemy as the Ganngáni 2 , the decendants of Gann which was the genuine Celtic name of Commius, the Romanised form of his name. His descendants expanded north into Connacht where Déla, Gann's grandson, landed his invasion force at the great seaport of Ath Clee Magh Rí in Galway Bay and advanced inland to set up court on the Hill of Dail (Cnoc na nDála, Knocknadala today) beside Turoe (Cnoc Temhro) 5 . There he established the famous Feis Temhro as recorded in Irish legendary history. From there his descendants, the ancient Fir Belg (Belgae, the Romanised form of their name) of Connacht pushed the aboriginal Cruthin, the men of Ulster, inexorably north-eastwards over the following centuries. The two Regia of Ptolemy's Irish record were the Capitals of these two warring provinces. The warfare involved is recorded in Ireland's oldest legendary history, the Ulidian Tales. This is further corroborated by vestiges of the great linear embankments thrown up by both parties as boundary fortificatious which scar the face of the Celtic Irish landscape to this day and tell of the ferocity of the long drawn-out warfare between the Fir Belg of Connacht and the men of Ulster. These facts of history were suppressed by pseudo-historians of the Ui Neill warlords and the monastic federation of Armagh in favour of their own concocted glorification. As this Turoe oppidum was of major importance in the late Irish Iron Age, its identification and recovery calls for a total re-evaluation of the origins and history of Celtic Ireland". Not having a copy of this book it's hard to follow the train of thought but it appears to say the Connachta were descended from Gann (from whom the Gangani of Ptolemy's map) and were the Fir Bolg (Belgae) of Irish history. It's theory in a published book. Make of it what you will. John