Carrick, County Wexford

Ireland's first Anglo-Norman stronghold

Stephen Mandal, Catherine McLoughlin, Michael Potterton, Denis Shine

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846828393
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitzstephen, one of the first knights to land at Bannow Bay, Carrick is the oldest Anglo-Norman fortification in the country. The site developed as an important borough in the thirteenth century and it was home to one of the first Marshal castles in the south-east. It was also the site of one of Ireland's earliest Anglo-Norman deerparks. Despite its historical significance, the site has passed in and out of public consciousness. Since 1987, it has been located in the Irish National Heritage Park, which partnered with the Irish Archaeology Field School in 2018 to carry out a major archaeological research program. This volume details the results of the Carrig project to date, as well as select previous research at the site.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. The Anglo-Norman colonisation of Wexford
• 2. A second Pale? The growth and decline ofAnglo-Norman Wexford, c.1200–1400
• 3. Town and county: the archaeology of medieval Wexford
• 4. A history of Carrick
• 5. New investigations at the Carrick ringwork site
• 6. Carrick town and manor: archaeological, geophysical and landscape assessment
• 7. The medieval park at Carrick
• 8. Capturing Carrick: a digital approach to constructing and deconstructing the modern and relict landscape
• 9. The Crimean monument at Carrick: one tower, several stories
• 10. The Irish National Heritage Park, home to Carrick: a personal reflection
• 11. The Carrig field school: a model for the benefits of field-school education
• 12. Remembering the Anglo-Normans in Wexford: 1969 and now
• Index