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Boyne Valley Archaeological & Historical Timeline Our journey begins 9,000 years ago after the great ice sheets that covered Ireland during the last Ice Age had retreated. The island was wild, uninhabited and heavily wooded. The first people – Stone Age hunters – were drawn to Irish shores in search of food. Viking Age 790 – 1169 AD 804 AD Kells monastery founded by monks from St. Columba’s foundation, Iona 980 AD Battle of Tara 1007 AD Book of Kells stolen 1022 AD Tara abandoned as seat of the High Kings of Ireland 1142 AD Mellifont Abbey is founded by St. Malachy of Armagh 1152 AD Synod of Kells Mesolithic Period 7000 – 4000 BC c. 7000 BC First Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrive in Ireland Medieval Period 1169 – 1550 AD 1169 AD Anglo-Normans arrive in Ireland 1172 AD Henry II grants Meath to Hugh de Lacy 1173 AD Trim Castle built by Hugh de Lacy 1194 AD Drogheda-in-Meath granted charter and ‘officially’ founded 1494 AD Poyning’s Law passed in Drogheda 1512 AD Slane Abbey is constructed 6 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.DISCOVERIRELAND.IE/BOYNEVALLEY Neolithic Period 4000 – 2200 BC c. 4000 BC First wave of Neolithic farmers arrive in Ireland c. 3200 BC Newgrange, Dowth & Knowth c. 3000 BC Loughcrew Post-Medieval Period 1550 – 1800 AD 1641 AD Rebellion 1649 AD Cromwell’s Siege of Drogheda 1681 AD St. Oliver Plunkett martyred 1690 AD Battle of the Boyne 1699 AD Newgrange is ‘discovered’ 1785 AD Slane Castle is reconstructed 1798 AD Rising
Bronze Age 2200 – 600 BC Industrial Age 1800 – 1900 AD Iron Age 600 BC – 400 AD Modern Age 1900 – present Early Christian Period 400 – 790 AD Early activity at Tara 227 - 266 AD 433 AD Legendary King of Ireland St. Patrick returns to Cormac Mac Airt reigns Ireland & lights Paschal from Tara fire at Hill of Slane 1808 AD Millmount Mortello Tower is constructed 1843 AD One million people attend Daniel O’Connell’s ‘monster meeting’ at Tara 1847 AD Worst year of the Great Famine, known as ‘Black ‘47’ 1855 AD Boyne Viaduct railway bridge completed 1887 AD Francis Ledwidge, poet, born outside Slane, Co. Meath 1953 AD Pierce Brosnan, former James Bond, & honorary OBE, is born in Navan 1986 AD Freddy Mercury & Queen play Slane Castle 1993 AD Newgrange, Knowth & Dowth become UNESCO World Heritage sites May 2008 Visitor Centre at the Battle of the Boyne site officially opened by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and First Minister of Northern Ireland, Dr. Ian Paisley 521 AD St. Buite, founder of Monasterboice, dies FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.DISCOVERIRELAND.IE/BOYNEVALLEY 7
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