Mark
Clinton
Contributions to journals
This paper is a survey of settlement in the Meath petty kingdom of Lóegaire, secular and ecclesiastical, early medieval, Norman, and early modern, based on archaeological field surveys and such historical sources as annals, genealogies and hagiography. Enclosed and unenclosed secular sites and ecclesiastical sites are discussed. Known ringforts remain scare (eleven certain instances and several dubious ones in the core area), among them a multivallate on the Hill of Ward that commanded the NW border. Their distribution and morphology is discussed. The chronology of most church sites, difficult to establish without excavation, remains undetermined but Trim, to which many other churches were subject, was an early foundation of St Lommán, later subject to Armagh. Main lines of communication ran through Lóegaire—Slige Assail, Rót na cCarpat, Slige Mór and others routes as well as the rivers Boyne and Blackwater, and these opened up Lóegaire to Viking activity. Possible sites and artifacts related to the Vikings are discussed. Special atention is paid to sites such as Odba and Navan in early and later medieval times.
This paper is a survey of settlement in the Meath petty kingdom of Lóegaire, secular and ecclesiastical, early medieval, Norman, and early modern, based on archaeological field surveys and such historical sources as annals, genealogies and hagiography. Enclosed and unenclosed secular sites and ecclesiastical sites are discussed. Known ringforts remain scare (eleven certain instances and several dubious ones in the core area), among them a multivallate on the Hill of Ward that commanded the NW border. Their distribution and morphology is discussed. The chronology of most church sites, difficult to establish without excavation, remains undetermined but Trim, to which many other churches were subject, was an early foundation of St Lommán, later subject to Armagh. Main lines of communication ran through Lóegaire—Slige Assail, Rót na cCarpat, Slige Mór and others routes as well as the rivers Boyne and Blackwater, and these opened up Lóegaire to Viking activity. Possible sites and artifacts related to the Vikings are discussed. Special atention is paid to sites such as Odba and Navan in early and later medieval times.
