Identifier: irelandindustria00irelrich (find matches)
Title: Ireland; industrial and agricultural
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ireland. Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction Coyne, William P
Subjects: Agriculture -- Ireland Lace and lace making Industries -- Ireland Ireland -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Dublin (etc.) : Browne and Nolan, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on in Britain before the Roman Invasion, hence it may safely beassumed that if the horse failed to reach Ireland during the Great IceAge it found its way thither soon after. It has been long known that in Miocene times two varieties of the three-hoofed fossil horse Hipparion (which was sometimes 14 hands high)flourished in south-eastern Europe, and as already indicated, we know thatat a later period true horses (of about the same size as Hipparion) wererepresented by at least two varieties in south and central Europe. It isalso known that as the Glacial epoch came to an end, and the ice sheet wasgradually rolled back, horses, antelopes, and other mammals pushed theirway further and further north, until the area now occupied by the BritishIslands was eventually reached. But in at least the case of the horse the migration northwards was accom-panied by a gradual reduction in size, with the result that in the morenorthern areas only stunted forms survived—the ancestors of the Shetland,
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