"Does it really matter where it came from or how it developed?"

Well, not really I guess... but I am curious none the less...

I'm also a bit of a stickler from time to time for accuracy... Most of the stuff that I'd read about the hran said that it's recent... and when I hear people say that it's centuries old.. well, I'm forced to chime in...

Kinda like when some dullards say that druids build Stonehenge... They're just pure D wrong...

Looks like the short answer to the bodhran history question is, "We don't know..."