Strongbow was made heir to the McMurrough lands in Leinster and as previously agreed married Dermot’s daughter Aoife. After a bloody battle the city fell to Strongbow and his armour clad Anglo-Norman supporters. Thus it was,that in 1169 a group of Anglo-Norman mercenaries landed in Wexford at the invitation of Dermot McMurrough and by 1170 they were at the walls of Waterford. A hundred years later it was the turn of a dispossessed Irish king to seek help from beyond the sea in order to regain his lost kingdom. Waterford City was founded in 914 AD and developed into a significant urban area during the 10th century. In the 1080s, a Viking fleet at Waterford had become a major force in the tangled web of Irish and Welsh political intrigue when Diarmuid O’Brien, King of Munster, negotiated that the fleet go to Wales to assist Gruffydd ap Cynan to recover the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Wales. The Vikings, realising the strategic and trading importance of the three rivers which empty into Waterford Harbour, built a longphort or dock at the confluence of the St. The Tower is mentioned in the Irish Annals as early as 1088 thus making it the oldest civic building structure on this island. Reginald’s Tower marks the site of the first defensive structure built by the Viking settlers. See List of monastic houses in County Westmeath. However, it was not the only such site: in the early tenth century, other Viking towns sprang up at Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick. Columbkille, Lough Gawna/Lough Gowna Teampull Choluim Cille (early church) 534923N 73404W. Waterford is arguably the oldest area of continuous urban settlement in Ireland. Dublin began its life as one such longphort, quickly becoming the most important Viking trading emporium in the Irish Sea, if not beyond. of Anglo-Norman mercenaries landed in Wexford at the invitation of Dermot. It is in the year 888 that we first find the Norse longphort or defended on. built a longphort or dock at the confluence of the St. The Vikings, realising the strategic and trading importance of the three rivers which empty into Waterford Harbour, built a longphort or dock at the confluence of the St. Read Maritime Wexford by Nicky Rossiter,Jack OLeary with a free trial. This latter meaning probably refers to Waterford as being a safe haven for Viking ships sheltering from a windy Irish Sea. Vedrarfjordr is believed to be derived from either Fjord of the Rams, probably a reference to the export of sheep from the area, or more prosaically, from windy fjord. This category of site is associated with the early Viking raids on Ireland, and with the origins of Irish towns, including Dublin. The name Waterford is derived from an old Norse word Vedrarfjordr that can be traced back to the late 9th century. The volume also includes a useful set of papers on the longphort, a term used in the annals as equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon burh and derived from two Latin loanwordslonga meaning ship, and portus meaning harbour.
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