{"id":12358,"date":"2022-03-22T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/viking-history-2\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:54:54","slug":"viking-history-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/viking-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Viking raiders appeared in the Shannon estuary in the early ninth century, when they sacked the important monsatery at Mungret. In 861 they established a longphort, or temporary ship-camp, on the banks of the river; this may have stood on the site of St Mary's Cathedral.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The foundation of the city of Limerick, however, is generally dated to 922, when the Viking leader Thormodu Helgason established a permanent base on King's Island, this is the area where King John's Castle now stands.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Long ships began raiding up the Shannon into the heartland of Ireland, looting monasteries and conquering the local Irish chieftains. Their settlement continued to thrive, soon becoming a significant trading port with links across the wide flung Viking world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Viking History KING JOHN’S CASTLE Viking History The Viking Thormodu Helgason establishes a permanent base on King’s Island Viking raiders appeared in the Shannon estuary in the early ninth century, when they sacked the important monsatery at Mungret. In 861 they established a longphort, or temporary ship-camp, on the banks of the river; this may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26463,"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12358\/revisions\/26463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingjohnscastle.ie\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}