However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. ... Their raids lasted over two hundred years and it was during this time that many of Ireland's treasures in the monasteries were sent to the continent or buried for safe-keeping, or just looted by the invaders. ...

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