Why are round pens only in America and Canada

Well I am proud of our history and even though it is way off topic and I will go back on topic but anyway. Britain was trying to make an empire and had a lot of countries in its empire Ireland being one of them. Ireland did not want to be part of it anymore because the country was being taken by force. We set up secret armies and refused to take seats in parliment and made our own government in secret as well. Eventually Britain granted us the right to make our own laws but still be part of the empire but people continued to fight for our country and after the statuate of westminister became law Ireland was allowed to severe all its ties with Britain and become a free country

Now back on topic I have a round pen my dad built it with wood :

well said savvylover112.

what most people arent aware of is that the irish people invaded england first, and the english were retaliating and this happend for centuarys then england built up their empire and came over and as you said in your post basically took over ireland.

Yep they started with the plantations which didn't work to well till the ulster one

....You couldn't drive half across the state of Texas in 6 hours!!!

Oh, my goodness. I thought Ireland was bigger than that. I live in Amarillo Texas and drove to Austin Texas one time. It took me about 10 hours of drive time with only 1 stop to get gas, take a restroom break, and stretch my legs. Amarillo is about 2 hours from one side of the state and Austin is at least 2.5 from the other side. So all the way across would probably take at least 15 hours depending on traffic.

I have seen round pens here and in Australia they are just not very common in the UK.

jays, what kind of a car do ye have? It would take me 6 hours to get as far as Dublin from here!

Very interesting about Ireland. I knew the north end was British still, but I didn't know the fighting was still going on. I know a girl here that just went to Ireland for a relatives wedding. She absolutely loved it there and plans on moving there.

Round pens are great tools for ground work. My grandaughter also began her lessons in one

I'd never really thought about there being fewer roundpens in Ireland, the UK, or Europe. Interesting.

I live in the US, and I don't have a roundpen. My grandmother has a 60 footer, 6 feet high, correct footing and all, and I have a standing invitation to bring my horses down to use it if I want (she lives about 5 miles away), but I never have. Just never had a need to. I hate riding in roundpens, as has been said by someone else a few pages ago, I've bashed my knees off the pipe too many times . I'm content with my rectangular arena at home. However, I don't start colts, and I can really see how a roundpen could be a helpful tool, and money well spent for a colt starting/rebreaking barn. I survive doing my groundwork on a lungeline, but my horses are well broke and beyond bucking out and requiring tougher containment to stay on a circle. Someday, I'd really like to get into giving lessons, but it seems like a bare beginner rider could start on the lunge just as easily as in a roundpen. I'd love to try join-up with Scout, but I can tell you that I would do that once, and try again every month or so for kicks and giggles, and other than that a roundpen would sit idle on my farm.