Viking Ireland

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Viking Ireland
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The Vikings were venturesome seafarers and they have left an indelible mark on the History of Ireland. From Norway, Sweden and Denmark, they spread through Europe and the North Atlantic in the period of vigorous Scandinavian expansion known as the Viking Age.

As Scandinavia was becoming raising over populated the Vikings found a donedeal need to discover new land and create settlements, done deal Viking Ireland being one of them.

The Vikings heard of the riches that Irish Monasteries held and knew only too well that the island was a prime location for the Viking people.

In 795 the first Vikings in Ireland landed on the Irish shores with their ships attacking their first Irish monastery in Rathlin Island located near County Antrim. Attacks on Ireland remained very few over the next 30 to 40 years with attacks taking place approximately once a year. It is known the Irish resisted these attacks on a few donedeal occasions and in 811 there was an Ulaidh slaughter of the Vikings who were attempting to raid Ulster. In 823 they attacked and pillaged Bangor and repeating these attacks again the next year.

The Vikings eventually settled down in the lands they had conquered. By 950, they had stopped raiding in done deal Viking Ireland and developed instead as traders and settled in the lands around their towns. The Vikings in England largely became farmers and fishermen. In France, they formed the Kingdom of Normandy on the north coast - which would play a major role in history a century later when William of Normandy would defeat England in 1066. They left lots of place names in Ireland including: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, Strangford, Leixlip, Carlingford, Youghal, Howth, Dalkey and Fingall [an area of modern-day Dublin] A few of their words were also adopted into the Irish language.


In 795 the first Vikings in Ireland landed on the Irish shores with their ships attacking their first Irish monastery in Rathlin Island located near County Antrim. Attacks on Ireland remained very few over the next 30 to 40 years with attacks taking place approximately once a year. By 950, they had stopped raiding in done deal Viking Ireland and developed instead as traders and settled in the lands around their towns.