School: Clochar na Toirbhirte (roll number 969)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr. Bearnard
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- (continued from previous page)Wexford. The developed an important sea-trade and built a large fleet of ships. They seem to have been on very friendly terms with the natives. They fought bravely again Fitzstephen and his Anglo Norman troops - when they besieged the town in 1169. After that they got some land around Roslare - where they carried on fishing and tillage. Some place names remind us of the Danes: eg. Carnmore, Greenore ( or a point jutting into the sea.The principal Celtic tribes of South Wexford - when the Normans arrived - were teh Larkins, Duggans, Boggans and O'Days. What became of these when the invades seized their lands - it is impossible to say - as Wexford history has been written almost entirely from the English standpoint: with there writers the story of our country begins in 1169 and is concerned with the wealthy owners of innumberable castles -whose ruins form such striking landmarks in the baronies of Forth and Bargy.These new settlers had little intercourse with the Irish parts of the county. They intermarried generally(continues on next page)
