Settlement in Ireland: Medieval Ireland
Learning Outcomes
2.1 - Recognise how demographic changes including settlement, migration, land ownership and plantation contributed to ideas about identity on the island of Ireland
3.6 - Assess the influence of individual people on historical change in Europe and/or the wider world across different periods of history, including references to biographical backgrounds
1.3- Consider contentious or controversial issues in history from more than one perspective
1.8 - Research the job of the historian, including how s/he finds evidence and uses evidence to form historical judgements
Learning Intentions
Describe where Vikings settled and the development of these settlements to this day. (Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Limerick).
Understand the impact that the vikings had on Ireland
Understand the reasons for the Norman invasion.
Make connections between life in medieval Ireland and medieval Europe, especially surrounding health
Investigate the impact of normans in Ireland
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Working with Evidence
Recap on prior learning on archaeology examining excavations of Viking sites in Ireland
View maps of Viking settlements in Ireland-Students try to identify what counties these are located in
Vikings in Ireland
First settlements in Ireland
Norse words in langauge
Impact on place names
Viking Dublin-Types of houses, bussineses at Woods Quay
Battle of Clontarf-Brian Boru
Norman Invasion
Edward the Confessor, Duke of Normandy
Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror
Dermot MacMurrough-Rory o' Connor-Strongbow
Life in Medieval Ireland
The Pale
Anglo-Irish adaption
Buildings and features
Newgate Prison
Dublin Castle
Christ Church Cathedral
Impact of Normans in Ireland
Fedudal system
Common Law
Brehon Law