According to reports, found in a peat harvesting machine in Clonycaven in 2003 and believed to be in the possession of the National Museum of Ireland is the upper body of an ancient young man who may have been severed by the machine. Reportedly the acidic compost of a bog which consists of rotting vegetation acts as a preservative. Conditions are of a ph value similar to vinegar which has preserved the thought to be 12th Century Clonycaven man who is believed to have been a celtic king.
In a scenario similar to the Maccabees who according to biblical records wrote to Romans asking them to intervene during a period of Greek subjucation, battles for high kingship in Ireland reportedly lead to Dermot MacMurrough, a deposed king of Leinster asking for help from the saxon king of Normandy. According to reports Normans arrived and settled in Wales and Ireland from 1169. A prelude to the duke of Normandy, a saxon who later became William the conqueror. He had previously landed in southern England, and fought but was defeated by King Harold in the battle of Hastings, 1066.
In 1171 King Henry landed in Ireland. He is documented as granting Strongbow feudal rights over Leinster. Henry, the great grandson of William the conqueror became the first king of England to hold jurisdiction over Ireland.
The Celtic Clonycaven man who was reportedly in his twenties when he died is believed to have been murdered. His long hair was shaved at the back and sides and wore a hairdressing made of a resin found in France and northern Spain: The remains of seventeen bodies have been found in Irish bogs including one child and seven women. According to a report around 1400 bodies or part bodies have been found, chiefly in north western european bogs such as in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland.