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“The sound of song and of the harp filled Tara’s halls.” Music had a place at every feast (See Food and Feasting), and probably in the musicians’ homes as well. Flutes were made out of bones; pan pipes were made out of bone or wood. There were also horns. The large, curved bronze trumpet found at Lough-na-Shade in County Armagh dates from about 100 BC.

The most remarkable Irish hoard, found at Downs in County Offaly, was a collection of nearly 200 bronze objects that had been deposited in a lake or bog, probably over a long period. Among the objects were 26 great, curving, bronze horns. They would have made a noise somewhere between a bull-horn and a didgeridoo, and they appear to be distinctively Irish in character.