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I find it curious how "the Romans" could have "wiped out" the original "Druids" completely. After all, "the Romans" never conquered Pictland, and never tried to conquer Ireland. Or do you imagine that only Gaul and southern Britain had "Druids"?
In addition, the "modern 'druids'" to which you refer were founded before the time of "Iolo Morganwg" and his chums, and date back to, at least, 1717, when the earliest "lodge" of these Meso-Druids was founded at the Appletree Tavern in London. These aren't exactly "modern," however, but are actually "Meso-Druids," not quite the same thing as Modern Pagan Druids (Celtic Reconstructionists) or even Neo-Druids (generally Neo-Pagan or even New Age), _much less_ the same thing as the Draoidhean/Draoithe of Gaelic Traditionalist and Celtic Revivalist groups.
But yes, there's no evidence that conclusively connects the ancient "Druids" with Stonehenge and other such structures.
As for saving the Tara-Skryne Valley from rape by those who would sacrifice their own parents on the altar of the Shiny Thing, the bulldozers have yet to move in, so don't count any chickens before they're hatched. And though I don't have much faith in what Con Connor and his pals are planning to do on the Solstice, there are other "Druidic" folk involved in the campaign to save the Tara-Skryne Valley, some of whom have contributed to getting the site listed as "endangered," and some of us have our own styles of Draoidheachd which don't rely on "white light" and other New Age silliness or Neo-Pagan "Love, Light, and Life" ethics which forbid the use of destructive magic (in short, some of us *will* curse).
Though I'm not registering with the site (at this time), I don't want to be "anonymous," so I'll identify myself (by the pen-name by which I am most widely known): Croman mac Nessa.
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