Daily Medieval

Clonmcnoise was founded in 544CE by St. Ciarán where a major east-west route crossed the River Shannon. Location is important in real estate...

Besides  Brehon Laws , Ireland had Cáin laws ( Cáin ="law"; redundant, I know) that were made with the help of church figures. Ado...

Congal Cáech was a king of the Irish province of Ulaid (on the north east coast) in the early 7th century. Cáech means  "squinting"...

Prophetic death is a staple of mythology and legend. One classic trope is the "threefold death" in which a prophecy claims three d...

There were two significant designations for kings in Ireland. Of the several different kingdoms on the Emerald Isle, only one of them had po...

Adomnán of Iona (also known as Eunan) was born about 627 CE in what is now County Donegal. We do not know a lot of details of his life befor...