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The Navan area was visited throughout the Late Mesolithic period (5500-4500 BC), and may have served as a religious centre for the first settled farmers who are thought to have dug the rampart and ditch of Navan Fort during the Neolithic Period (4500-2500 BC).
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This Cimbaeth was the first king of Emain Macha.’ In early Ireland, centres of tribal power were also religious sites, Sacred and profane, ritual and royal, were intermixed as at Navan” (Navan Centre). ‘Cimbaeth, son of Fintan, having been seven years in the sovereignty of Ireland, after he had been taken to her (as husband) by Macha, died at Emain Macha.
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“The first figures in Irish History are the pre-historic kings of Emain Macha listed in the Annals of the Four Masters c. Murtheimne Plain to be raised by King Conchobor. This is where the hero Cúchulainn comes to join the boy troop when he leaves his home on the Home of King Conchobar and the men of the Red Branch of Ulster.