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Category Archives: Ireland
Cross of Tipperary
CROSS OF TIPPERARY Former Irish county: see TIPPERARY. link_coming_soon
Cork
CORK Chorcaigh. Embed from Getty Images City in the south of Ireland, which stands where the River Lee meets the long Cork Harbour; The county of which the city is capital. The city and the harbour were held by the … Continue reading
Posted in England, Ireland
Tagged Anglo-Norman, Cloyne, Cork, Cork Harbour, County Cork, Munster, River Lee
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Connacht
CONNACHT CONNAUGHT (Anglicised). The province of western Ireland, lying between Donegal Bay and Galway Bay, with the middle Shannon forming much of its eastern boundary. Connacht was one of the early Kingdoms of Ireland – its name is said to … Continue reading
Clare ~ Irish County
CLARE, Irish county. An Chláire. Co. Clare lies in the northwest of the province of Munster, in the southwest of Ireland. It lies north of the estuary of the River Shannon, and has a coastline on Galway Bay. In Gaelic … Continue reading
Cavan
CAVAN Cabháin. County in the north of the Irish Republic, bordering on Co. Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town of Cavan is SSE of Enniskillen. The county was formed in 1579, mainly out of the lands held by the family … Continue reading
Posted in England, Ireland
Tagged Church of Ireland, Connacht, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Tullyhaw, Ulster
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Cashel
CASHEL The Kings of Munster, the province in southwest Ireland, were sometimes called Kings of Cashel. The town is east of Tipperary and southeast of Limerick. In 1141 it became the seat of an Archbishop, whose province was Munster. In … Continue reading
Bréifne
BRÉIFNE Brefni, Breffney, Breffny, Brenny. Kingdom in western Ireland, formed by the mid-8th century on the borders of Connacht and Ulster by the powerful Connacht family of the Uí Briúin. Its power fell away but revived in the 12th … Continue reading
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Tagged Cavan, Church of Ireland, Connacht, County Cavan, Kingdom of Breifne, Leitrim, Ulster
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Brega
BREGA Irish Kingdom(s) in the early middle ages, in the area of present-day eastern Meath and the north of Co. Dublin. It appeared in the early 7th century in the east of the region dominated by the Southern Uí Néill. … Continue reading
Atlantic Archipelago
ATLANTIC ARCHIPELAGO A name used for the BRITISH ISLES by those who believe the normal term has overtones of British supremacy over Ireland.
Armagh
ARMAGH Ard Mhacha. County in Northern Ireland, south of Lough Neagh. Its southern and western borders are with the Republic. In the early middle ages it was part of Airgialla, but by 850 the district around the monastery of Armagh, … Continue reading
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Tagged Armagh, County Armagh, Craigavon, Lough Neagh, Plantation of Ulster, Uí Néill
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Antrim
ANTRIM Aontroim. The northeastern county in Northern Ireland, lying between the River Bann and Lough Neagh in the west and the North Channel in the east. Antrim and Co. Down, to the south, were the remnant of the old Kingdom … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Northern Ireland
Tagged Antrim, Ballymena, Belfast, Larne, Lough Neagh, Plantation of Ulster, River Bann
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Annaly
ANNALY Anglicised form of the Gaelic ANGHAILE, a region in central Ireland, lying northeast of Lough Ree. It was the territory of the O’Ferralls. At times it came under the lordship, later the county, of Meath, and was included in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anghaile, Annaly, County Westmeath, Meath, One Direction, Westmeath
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Airgialla
AIRGIALLA Anglicised as Uriel or Oriel. A region of small kingdoms in Ulster until the 13th century, which lay in an area where now are found the counties of Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh and Louth, and, in its early years, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Airgialla, Armagh, County Louth, Ireland, Monaghan, Northern Ireland, Oriel, Uí Néill, Ulaid, Ulster, Uriel
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