Tag Archives: Medievel Ireland

Ye Olde Dublin

Ruadhain writes:

Saw you had a post last week about the dangerous sounding place names [Cutt Throat and Murdering Lane, etc] that featured on Rocque’s Map of Dublin. This may interest readers – Harvard has the map entirely on-line and in splendid detail….

Peruse at your leisure here.

Last week: Gadzooks!

Um.

Shane writes:

Bees were taken very seriously in early medieval Ireland, an entire law tract dedicated to legal intricacies of bee-keeping and even providing for trespass by bees (‘Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200′ by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, p 124)…