Medieval writer Cogitosus described Kildare as a 'vast and metropolitan city' thanks to the presence of the tomb of St Brigid ...

Conservation experts are carefully working to repair some of Ireland’s oldest documents, including a parish registry dating back to the medieval times. The 650-year-old ecclesiastical register ...

Kilkenny is also home to some of Ireland’s most vibrant medieval history, with remnants of Viking life still present today.

The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion is a combination of clear, narrative accounts and succinct analysis, and it is filled with new insights throughout. This book will not be ...

Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster. Known as a Cathaigh — or Cata for short — the mysterious creature is rumored to lurk in ...

After my own brief adventure in Ireland, I would certainly not claim to be an expert on this fascinating side-show in Scottish medieval affairs, but I do like to think there were times when my ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical ...

Located just two miles west of the famous Castlemartyr Estate lies a fine, well preserved late medieval Irish Tower House, richly steeped in Irish history and tradition dating from the 1500's.

A meticulous conservation project has begun to safeguard one of Ireland’s oldest surviving paper documents, The Guardian writes, dating back to the medieval period. The document in question is ...