December 2013
Connacht incastellated:
pre-Norman and Anglo-Norman
castles west of the Shannon
By Professor Tadhg O’Keeffe
Native pre-Norman kings of Connacht are known to have incastellated their lands from at least the 1120s. A more sustained period of castle-building followed the Anglo-Norman conquest of Connacht in 1235, most of it driven by Anglo-Norman lords from http://premier-pharmacy.com/product-category/mans-health// other parts of the Irish colony. This lecture reviewed the linguistic, historical and archaeological evidence for these processes.… Read the rest
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