Places and Cities in Ireland
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…
Barely any areas have been changed as totally in 10 years as Dundrum in Dublin 14 – established in the eighth Century, invigorated against nation people in the thirteenth and changed into a shopping mecca in the 21st. Beforehand, Dundrum (which traverses both the D14 and D16 postcodes) was a sprawling suburb with a notoriety…
Besides the city’s modern Irish name, Baile Átha Claith, meaning ‘Town of the Hurdle Ford’ – in reference to the original Celtic settlement on the Liffey’s northern bank. Even the three 12th-century behemoths of the Norman occupation – Dublin Castle, Christchurch Cathedral and St Patrick’s Cathedral – which ushered in 800 years of British rule,…
Athlone town is the largest town in Co. Westmeath. It has a rich historical significance because it held a pivotal position in Irish history. The town was founded in the twelfth century when a bridge crossing the River Shannon was built. Soon after the Anglo-Normans constructed a wooden fortification to defend the bridge. The town…
Cork City is the third biggest city in Ireland and has dependably been a critical city due to its seaport. It started on an island in the swampy estuary of the River Lee (Corcaigh in Irish means a bog), and bit by bit scaled the precarious banks on either side. Today the waterway moves through…
The name of the town Rathfarnham originates from the Irish Ráth Fearnáin which implies The Rath or Fort of Fearnan. Rathfarnham is a town situated in South Dublin. The historical backdrop of Rathfarnham, to the extent we can gain from existing records, started at the season of the Anglo-Norman intrusion in 1199 when the terrains…
The Parish of Mullingar was founded in 1205. It is known as a marketing town and upto a few years ago had a prominent cow market. Over time Mullingar was granted the right to hold four fairs a week as well as a weekly market. The population of the borough was a mixture of Gaelic…