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The Viking Age is the term denoting the years from about 700 to 1100 in European history. It was a formative period in Scandinavian history. Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. They also reached Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia. This category lists towns and settlements ...
There was an earlier church on the site: it was here in 1169 that Diarmait Mac Murchada signed the first Anglo-Irish peace treaty. [4] The leading Norman commander Raymond FitzGerald, (nicknamed Le Gros) and his wife Basila de Clare, sister of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (nicknamed Strongbow), are said to have been married at Selskar in 1174.
South-Eastern Ireland – based on Ptolemy's Map of Ireland – circa AD 150. On Ptolemy's mid-2nd century 'Map' of Ireland – dating from c. AD 150 [14] – Carnsore point appears as Hieron, the Sacred Cape, the river Barrow as the Birgos (or Birgus), most of the area of County Wexford is shown as inhabited by a tribe called the Brigantes, and a tribe called the Coriondi (or Koriondoi) are ...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
Map showing the major Norse settlements in Ireland in the 10th Century. A new and more intensive period of Viking settlement in Ireland began in 914. Between 914 and 922 the Norse established Waterford, Cork, Dublin, Wexford and Limerick.
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,384 townlands in County Wexford, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
From Bannow the combined armies headed towards Wexford, a Viking seaport approximately 32 km away. There was a brief skirmish at Duncormick, [6] before they continued on to assault Wexford's walls during the Siege of Wexford (1169). [citation needed] By the mid-19th century, the 1850s, the village of Duncormick had a population of about 250.
For several hundred years (from the 9th to the early 12th century), Wexford was a Viking town, a city-state, largely independent and owing only token dues to the Irish kings of Leinster. However, in May 1169 Dermot MacMurrough , King of Leinster and his Norman ally Robert Fitz-Stephen besieged Wexford .