Thread: My family roots, one side clear the other side dark.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

....and Irish monasteries helped keep culture alive during the Dark Ages.

Until the Vikings arrived and thoroughly manked coastal Ireland from Galloway to Dublin, 795 and 1014 AD, looting and destroying all the monasteries they could find intact, after the warring Irish tribes had previously destroyed a majority of them in their inter-tribal wars. Nearly all those monasteries were in accessible coastal areas, not far inland in the bogs. The Vikings incidentally founded Dublin in the process, just south of the old Roman holiday camp at Dundalk.

There was buggerall culture left to keep alive.