Hugh de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade

Hugh de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade

  Between 1209 and 1230, the Roman Catholic church orchestrated a crusade into southern France to exterminate a renegade Christian belief system known as Catharism or the Albigensian heresy. Approximately one million people are said to have died in the war. I...
Notes on Drogheda, County Louth

Notes on Drogheda, County Louth

Highlighting historical figures and events connected to Drogheda, such as 1916 icons Major John MacBride and Éamonn Ceannt; Colonel Isaac Eure, the Regicide; Thomas Charles Wright, who founded the Ecuadorian Navy, and Michael Scott, a renowned architect, as well as...
Clonmore Castle, County Carlow

Clonmore Castle, County Carlow

A potted history of a fabulous ruin in north-east County Carlow, with its link to one of the combatants at the battle of Bannockburn. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Trim Castle – Ireland’s Oldest Stone Castle

Trim Castle – Ireland’s Oldest Stone Castle

Trim Castle in Co. Meath which is not just the oldest stone castle in Ireland but also the largest of our Anglo-Norman castles. Here Turtle explores its links to such powerful dynasties as de Lacy, Mortimer, Wellesely and the House of York. Become a member of Turtle’s...