Why did Rome never conquer Ireland? Were they scared of them?

Why did Rome never conquer Ireland? Were they scared of them?

>build a wall to keep the celts away
>hey should we sail over to that other island jampacked with more celts?

I wouldn't have either

Nothing of value for the Romans.

Dude just keep expanding LMAO whats the worst that could happen.

Rome mostly wanted to conquer lands that were actually valuable and at least somewhat developed

This is Rome, they don't know how to stop.

Hadrian had autism

They feared the Irish warrior.

Invading England in the first place was a mistake.
No wonder they left the island as soon as they could

They feared the Hibernian Warrior.

A frozen lwaterland with no natural resources or semblance of civilization

What's there that's worth conquering?

They were pretty advanced

OH WOW FARMS AND MOUND DWELLINGS, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF CHINA HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN FROM THEM

This could be as old as the Roman empire

500 bc-500 AD this shit is contemporary to Rome

>"Great" Zimbabwe-tier """civilization"""

Agricola proposed an invasion and said that he thought a single legion garrisoned there would be enough to hold it. But the idea wasn't approved by Rome, along with his proposed invasion of Scotland, and it was never seriously considered again.

Claudius conquered Britain because it was the staging point for numerous seaborne raids on gaul. After taking it over Hibernians started doing the same thing to Britain, but the Romans just didn't care enough about Britanian fishing villages getting raided to do anything about it. Britain was always a resource black hole for them, and a convenient place to store legions so they were out of the way if a civil war started.

They were terrified of the Gaelic warrior

When where the celts not shit at everything?

how was britun any more developed than ireland ?

virtually the same geographically

They feared the Black Warrior

Well, for one, it was more developed. Geography isn't everything.

>virtually the same geographically

Wrong. Ireland traditionally has been incredibly boggy and far less suitable for agriculture. It is far more exposed to cold weather and damp due to the Atlantic. South-eastern England by comparison is fertile agricultural land which led to more development amongst local tribes who inhabited massive hill-forts.

Ringforts were medieval, not Iron Age.

This guy gets it. The Romans barely even wanted Britain.

>7500 BC humans arrive
>prior to this only the irish lived there

Whatever the Romans conquered generally had to be worth the cost of dispatching the legions required for the campaign + occupation.

Ireland didn't threaten the economy of occupied Britain, nor did it support an economy of its own that was worth annexing.

Scotland only got occasional military attention because the restive tribes of northern England were further destabilised by the presence of tribes further north, unfriendly to Rome.