OʼKeeffe, Tadhg, “Trim before 1224: new thoughts on the caput of de Lacy lordship in Ireland”, in: Paul Duffy, Tadhg OʼKeeffe, and Jean-Michel Picard (eds), From Carrickfergus to Carcassonne: the epic deeds of Hugh de Lacy during the Albigensian Crusade, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 31–56.
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Hugh I de Lacy selected Trim (Co. Meath), as the caput of the vast lordship granted to him by Henry II in 1172. He built a castle, founded (or possibly refounded) an Augustinian abbey, and promoted the development of a town. Despite this impressive head-start, Trim soon declined as a place of importance in the political geography of Angevin Ireland. That decline was in large part a consequence of the fate of the de Lacy dynasty itself. This paper offers fresh readings of topographical and structural evidence from the town to gloss its documented history as a place of geo-political promise in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and to illuminate the early indicators that its promise was destined to remain unfulfilled. It is suggested here that in the first decade of the thirteenth century Walter de Lacy, Hugh II’s older brother, had an ambitious plan for the town and its environs, but that Hugh’s return from exile and the subsequent conflict ensured that they never came to fruition.
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