Feb 12, 2026
A genealogy from the line of Morugh MacFinn, son of Finn macMael Morda O’Faelain, who reigned as King of Leinster from 965 to 972. The Uí Fáeláin branch of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty were based at Naas (Nás na Ríogh / Nás Laighean), Co. Kildare, whose name...
Feb 7, 2026
The Burren of County Clare has one of the highest concentrations of ringforts in the country, including those at Cahermore and Caherconnell, as well as cashels such as Cahercommaun, Caherballykinvarga and Cahermacnaghten. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to...
Feb 7, 2026
See here for more stories of County Clare After the Neolithic period, came the Beaker folk, who are thought to have sailed up the Atlantic from Portugal in about 2400 BC in pursuit of copper and other riches, heralding the onset of the Chalcolithic (c. 2400-2150...
Feb 7, 2026
See here for more stories of County Clare How long has there been life in County Clare? In 2022, geologists reported the discovery of fossilised Psilonichnus burrows, excavated by marine creatures 330 million years ago when the Burren region was part of a shallow...
Feb 7, 2026
During the medieval period, the most prominent legal family in County Clare was the O’Davoren, or Ó Duibhdábhoireann, a minor Gaelic gentry sept who ran a celebrated school of fénechas (native law) at Cahermacnaghten in the Burren. As well as being famous jurists and...
