There is a mention of a Viking site at Linn-Rois in 841 which has been interpreted as the pool of Ross. The Annals of the Four Masters refer to a fleet of sixty ships on the Boyne in 836. There was a large quantity of charcoal, extending from 2 to 10 feet below the surface in the surrounding ground. The human bones were not buried in any ordered fashion. Human bones, the skull of a horse and seven richly gilt items were also discovered by the workmen in July 1848. These remains were identified as of Viking origin. Athlumney is situated on a strategic site near the confluence of the Boyne and Blackwater which would have made it attractive for the Vikings.ĭuring the construction of the railway at Athlumney in the late 1840s human and animal remains were discovered with a copper alloy horse-bit, harness mounts, mounts and “buttons”. He suggested that the site may be Dun Dubchomair. When he excavated there in the late 1970s he discovered ditches which may have been aprt of a longphort. Kelly of the National Museum Athlumney is a possible longphort. Many of the longphorts were abandoned by the end of the ninth century.Īccording to Eamonn P. The first recorded longphorts are Dublin and Linn Dúachaill (Annagassan, Co. Sites of longphorts were usually at the meeting of a major and minor river and were well defended with ditches.
Longphorts were originally constructed to provide a camp for raiding parties. Some archaeologists suggest that the early Viking houses and features represent a settlement associated with a longphort nearby. The term ‘longphort’ is taken from Latin for ship and port and was originally used for first Viking settlements in Ireland but later used for various fortifications including those of the Irish. These camps were called longphorts and from these the Vikings could raid inland. By the 830s the raids became more intense and the Vikings began to erect temporary camps where the raiding parties could over winter. to avoid confusion, it may be more helpful to use the for- mula 'Viking-camp' or 'Viking-base' rather than longphort.26 Chronicles are. The first recorded raid by the Vikings on Ireland occurred in the 790s and early raids were sporadic and usually took place in the summer. - Wellington – Where was Wellington born?.- Trim Gaol – The Old Gaol on Mill Street.- Trim Bygone Days by Peter Crinion and Thomas Dignam.- Trim 1920- The capture of the Barracks and the Burning of Trim.- Porchfields – Medieval Plants of Trim.- Ó Dálaigh Bardic Poets: Their Poetry and their Patrons.- The Church and Diocese of Meath in the 15th Century.- Mary Ann Cosgrove – Mother Mary Patrick.
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