Families of Munster
The southern province, six counties from the Aran archipelago east to Waterford. The kingdom of the Eóganachta, of Brian Boru's Dál Cais, and of the great Geraldine houses, Desmond and Kildare, that carried Norman ground into the Gaelic order.
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Counties of Munster · 6
Clare
An ClárThe Burren, Bunratty, the Cliffs of Moher, the kingdom of Thomond and the Ó Briain (O'Brien) homeland.
Cork
CorcaighThe largest county, the Mac Cárthaigh kingdom of Desmond, the rebel city, and the Munster Plantation.
Kerry
CiarraíThe peninsulas of Iveragh and Dingle, Mac Cárthaigh Mór, the Geraldines of Desmond, and the last Munster Gaelic ground.
Limerick
LuimneachThe Treaty City on the Shannon, siege country of 1690 and 1691.
Tipperary
Tiobraid ÁrannThe Golden Vale, Cashel of the Kings, seat of the Eóganachta and, later, of the Butler palatinate of Ormond.
Waterford
Port LáirgeVeðrafjǫrðr, the Norse foundation, the Decies, and the Mac Craith bardic country.
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Walk the streets and halls this name knew — a photoreal walk through time, on foot.
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The MacCarthy lords' great tower-house in its prime — the battlements and the famous stone, high over wooded Muskerry.
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The O'Brien Earls of Thomond's great four-towered tower-house, hung with banners and famed for its feasts.
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The cathedral citadel of the Kings of Munster, whole and roofed on its rock — round tower, Cormac's Chapel and Gothic cathedral.