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Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman ... Wexford was a Viking town, a city-state, largely independent and owing only token dues to the Irish kings of Leinster.
County Wexford highlighted in green. County Wexford (Irish: Contae Loch Garman) is a county located in the south-east of Ireland, in the province of Leinster.It takes its name from the principal town, Wexford, named 'Waesfjord' by the Vikings – meaning 'inlet (fjord) of the mud-flats' in the Old Norse language.
Later, from 819 onwards, the Vikings invaded and plundered many Christian sites in the county. [9] Vikings settled at Wexford town near the end of the 9th century. [9] In 1169, Wexford was the site of the invasion of Ireland by Normans at the behest of Diarmuid Mac Murrough, King of Uí Cheinnsealaig and king of Leinster (Laigin).
Viking ports were established at Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Cork and Limerick, which became the first large towns in Ireland. Ireland consisted of many semi-independent territories ( túatha ), and attempts were made by various factions to gain political control over the whole of the island.
Reconstruction of an Irish hunter-gatherer hut—Mesolithic period A reconstructed Neolithic farmstead from ~6,000 years ago. The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169.
Rathlin Island. In the year 795 Vikings (probably of Norwegian origin) raided islands off the coast of Ireland for the first time. [1] This was the beginning of a new phase of Irish history, which saw many native communities – particularly ecclesiastical ones – relocate themselves on the continent, or further afield in places like Iceland and the Faroe Islands, to escape the pagan marauders.
Leinster had to contend with raids from the Vikings under the Uí Ímair from the 9th century onwards, who established themselves at Dublin and Wexford. As part of these Gaelic-Viking battles, Murchad mac Diarmata, King of Leinster took control of the Kingdom of Dublin and the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles (what is now the Isle of Man and the ...
The siege of Wexford took place in early May 1169 and was the first major clash of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.The town was besieged by a combined force of Normans under Robert Fitz-Stephen and soldiers loyal to Diarmait mac Murchadha.