There were druids also in Gaul and Britain but the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland were separated and isolated for many centuries from the Celtic races of Gaul and thus their religious system like their naturally diverged so that the druidism of Ireland as pictured forth in the native records differed in many respects from that of Gaul..In pagan times the druids were the exclusive possessors of whatever learning was then known. There were druids in every part of Ireland but as we might expect Tara the residence of the over-kings of Ireland was as we are told in the Life of St. For during a bloody battle it sometimes happened that an excitable combatant ran mad with fury and and occurrences of this kind are recorded in the romantic accounts of nearly all the great battles fought in Ireland.