Yay! A Crannog!
Greymom
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Meshitup's "A Celtic Crannog on Lough Ea" is just what I was looking for! Looks like good historical accuracy and nice details. Going to pick this up today!
The surrounding water provides a good defensive position against both raiders, and the "things that come at night, but canna cross living water".
For those interested Lough Ea is in County Donegal.
Now if someone would do a Scottish Broch, like the Mousa Broch as an example.....hint....hint.....
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Only question that remained for me about the product.. Do the buildings have something of an interior? I did notice that one of the doors seemed to be opened, but couldn't see whether at least the inside walls and roof were textured, and there's no info whether other doors can open.
I like it. The torches are a bit much, but I suspect tehy can be replaced with something smaller.
Those torches just have to go, and that tartan has to be replaced with something more appropriate (But I am somewhat biased).
The red tartan looks to be the Ulster tartan. County Donegal was originally in Ulster until Irish independance when it stayed with the republic of Ireland and wasn't one pf the 6 counties which remained under British rule. The blue tartan draped over the fence is the Donegal tartan.Which one did you want to replace?
Do you want to replace the tartan with a Clan Shaw pattern by chance? There are a lot of tartan texture sets available for DS, but I don't know of any that list them by clan. I will look around, I need several specific patterns myself.
Thanks for identifying these tartans! I usually have to go through my books to find them.
No problem. I have a slight advantage inasmuch as I have 4 grandchildren who are more than half Irish and live in County Donegal.
There's another Clan? I've got the patterns I'm sure I can massage them into the correct templates.
I have never heard of a Crannog
only Eggnog 
looks cool though 
https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/crannog/603320
Interesting read on tartan, all of which is new to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan
The Scots are the ones who use clan tartans Irish tartans are designed to represent the districts and counties of Ireland.
Isn't that bull skull sort of fake? Although I've only been in person to one crannog and that was one built as a tourist attraction in County Wexford just down the road from the horse race track. It was quite nice and elaborate but I don't remember a bull skull or tartans for that matter; but then there is a lot more I saw that day that I don't remember either.
I would imagine it is an auroch skull. They were still around back then. The plaid probably is a bit anachronistic for the period. At least the bright one.
Aye but there is a toned down version as well https://www.lindaclifford.com/IrishUlster.html ; but yes Tartan as such came into being around the late medieval period.
This would be perfect for me conceptually if not for the rather low quality of some of the textures and low poly objects, which make it look kind of Skyrim-y.
Crannogs were built on both islands. More were built in Ireland but 200 odd are known from Scotland. Some of my ancestors problems didn't have issues with water which may explain their lack of popularity. That or the nasty weather, I doubt winter on a highland loch would be much fun.
Oh Aye, I am not debating that. We even had crannogs here in Wales and there is a a reconstructed one in the Brecon Beacons National Park.(about 25 miles by road from where I live) But the one in the store is based on an Irish one.
Party Foul
Talking about an asset without posting link to said assets...
https://www.daz3d.com/a-celtic-crannog-on-lough-ea
I'd like to know where I can find mountains like that in Ireland!
The "tartans" are fine though. The whole clan tartan thing was largely a Victorian invention, historically people would have worn whatever they could make. Any culture that has invented weaving and can dye cloth in more than one colour is likely to come up with something like tartan, but the celtic people of northern europe were noted for wearing such patterns.
I think the ancient celts had moved on rather from dugout canoes though.
I'm not sure but those mountains are probably from the Berner Oberland Alps. My brother-in-law would instantly know...me, not so much
I think crannogs-like settlements were used in lots of Europe, including Switzerland and Austria, including maybe Hallstat at one time.