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Some historians describe the period of the late 1200’s as the “Gaelic revival” ( not to be confused with the Celtic revival of the late 1800’s), where the Irish clans began to push back against the Anglo-Norman settlers with devastating raids. It is a story often repeated in history, a mighty military force that sweeps all before it, finds holding the ground they've won the real battle as they may have won the war but not the peace. The subject of this video are three castles that bore the brunt of these raids, which was a reflection of what was going on elsewhere in Ireland. The Anglo-Norman forces in Ireland were hard pressed as at this time considerable manpower was required to fight in Scotland, where there too there was uprising (This was the era of William Wallace).


Some Notes:
The conversion factors used were made with a calculator from the National Archives and are only for illustration, I don’t know how accurate they are!

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