Places and Cities in Ireland
The history of Naas is long and colorful. The name is believed to have three possible origins, from which Nás na Ríogh meaning “Place of Assembly of the Kings” is now used. According to Bardic tradition, Lewy of the Long Hand founded Naas, and from the beginning it was an important hub. For nearly 700…
The name Wicklow is of Viking origin – Vykyngelo – meaning meadow of the Vikings. 1000 BC is believed to be the time of the first settlers arriving. They lived mostly around the banks of river Vartry, where they fished and hunted. This region also houses a Nati’s Mount – a mound of earth harboring…
Bray is a seaside town in north of County Wicklow. It lies about 20 kilometers from Dublin and its name Bray or Bré comes from an Irish word for hill or rising ground. Bray was on the southern border of the Pale during the medieval times and it was ruled by the English crown from…
Situated at the mouth of the River Boyne, Drogheda’s name comes from the Irish ‘Droichead Átha’, which means bridge of the ford. The Anglo-Normans established Drogheda initially as two separate towns on either side of the river in the late twelfth century. Drogheda in Meath was established by Hugh De Lacy. On the northern bank…
Swords, which is bordered by the rivers Tolka and Delvin with the River Ward moving through it, is located 13 Km from Dublin City and with numerous historical structures is a reminder of it’s bloody past. Swords which is currently the authoritative capital of Fingal persevered through a thousand years of mismanagement from the Anglo…
The zone was home to the Norman Blanchard family who were conceded the terrains by the English crown in the thirteenth century. The territory remained scarcely populated and Blanchardstown remained a little country town until the 1960’s. In the 1970’s, Dublin’s growth assigned Blanchardstown to become a sleeper town with straight access to the city’s…
The first Viking settlement in the Waterford region was at the beginning to mid-ninth century site at Woodstown around five kilometers up stream from the present city. This proto-town did not survive and in 914 Viking explorers set up Ireland’s first permanent city at Waterford – in a zone which is as yet known as…
Galway City initially shaped from a little angling town situated in the territory close to the Spanish Arch called ‘The Claddagh’ where the River Corrib meets Galway Bay. Galway later turned into a walled town in the year 1232 after the domain was caught by the Anglo Normans lead by Richard De Burgo. The town…
Limerick City is around 1,100 years old. It has been a Viking settlement, a medieval walled town, a Georgian city and is currently a cutting edge, dynamic metropolitan zone with a rich and notable hinterland. Limerick was established by the Vikings around 922 AD. The Vikings were brilliant merchants and craftsmen and Limerick had contacts…
Paddy’s Hill, on the drift street to Portmarnock sitting above Malahide Estuary, is the most punctual confirmation we have of a home site in the zone dating from c.6000 B.C. The Fir Domhnainn are likewise presumed to have settled here, where they remained “angling and fowling” for a couple of hundred years. Custom has it…