The rivers provided the avenues my Celtic ancestors traveled to higher land from the sea. The mouths of the rivers to their head water they would explore, trying to find a place to rest their heads and all their other parts. Now the figure below tries to show how this travel would be a problem from the get go. The blue shows roughly the land above 600 ft. from sea level. Notice that there is not much space between the sea and the hills. In addition, there were a number of mountains rising in the distance. It was not just one or two mountains poking their tops into the horizons high, but lots of them. It was just about everywhere you visited. These many mountains formed a number of natural barriers which gave separation between these family groups. Not a bad idea for those who did not like the folks on the other side. In addition, the height of each mountain [in feet], and their clusters are shown, giving the relationship they have to this geography. Who could figure all this out? Where to settle and how to survive would be the first questions on my family's list.
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