Crossword Puzzle: Irish History thru 1200
by Linda Fulton Burke
ACROSS
1 St Collum Cille founded _____. 563
7 The first megalithic _____ were built. 3000 BC
10 The Viking leader, Turgéis, _______ 845
11 Brian Bóruma was killed at ________, and Máel
Sechnaill II became high king. 1014
13 Conchobar Ua Briain and Diarmait Mac
Murchada laid siege to _________ with 200
ships. 1137
15 A Roman called Ptolemy created a ___ of Ireland
showing rivers, towns and tribes.AD 1-500
16 The ____Age began. 500 BC
18 Diarmait Mac Murchada ________ Dervorgilla,
wife of Tigernán Ua Ruairc. 1152
20 An Irish fleet attacked _______ 1068
22 People began to speak what we call ‘____
Middle Irish’ 1028-1036
25 The Vikings founded ________ 923
26 The Irish and _____ went into Cumberland,
Lancashire and Cheshire in England. 900-911
28 The first Irish monastery was founded at Aran by
St ____. Irish monasteries spread and flourished
for the next 150 years. 490
32 _____ warriors raided Roman Britain. 297-450
33 At this time, people were speaking ‘Archaic ___
Irish. 490
34 Mathgamain mac Cennétig of the Dál Cais
became ____of Cashel. 964
36 The year St ________ s said to have come to
Ireland to spread Christianity.432
39 The _________ passage grave was built around
now.2500 BC
40 At the Synod of Whitby, Irish and _______
Christians argued over the date of Easter. It was
not until 716 that Iona accepted the Roman
Easter. 664
42 Bardic schools set standards for ______and
poetry. 1200
43 St Colum Cille founded _____. 546
44 MacMurchada was able to capture Wexford with
the help of the ________ 1169
45 During these years, Old Irish ____ were in
force.650-750
49 Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair ________banished Mac
Murchada from Ireland, and he fled to Bristol in
England. 1166
51 John of Salisbury visited ____ Adrian IV at Rome
and got permission for Henry II to invade Ireland.
1155
53 Seven __________ Munstermen died at Móin
Mór when the King of Munster was defeated..
1151
54 Máel Sechnaill II ________ Dublin three times.
981, 989, 995
56 Diarmait Mac Murchada obtained complete
______control of Dublin. 1162
58 St. _______of Clairvaux wrote to Diarmait Mac
Murchada, calling him the king of Ireland. 1145
59 Mac Murchada returned to Ireland with _______
soldiers and managed to get back the kingdom
of Uí Chenneslaig. 1167
60 Máel Sechnaill II mac Domnaill, king of ____,
succeeded to high kingship. 980
DOWN
2 St _____ went out from Iona and founded
Lindisfarne. 635-651
3 St Cíarán founded ____________ . 547-548
4 This was the ______ Age. Many gold ornaments
have been found from this time. 1800 BC
5 This was the period of ‘_________ Old Irish’.698-
700
6 There was forty years of ______, during which
Viking raids died down. 876-916
8 Hugh de Lacy was given _____ kingdom of
Mide.1172
9 Richard de Clare, also called ________,
captured Wexford and married Mac Murchada’s
daughter, Aífe.1170
12 Máel Sechnaill recognised _____Bóruma as high
king of Ireland 1002
14 Many books were written in _____ during this
period. 580-680
17 In 802 and 806 the Vikings ________ Iona.
19 ________, hill forts and ring forts continued to be
built AD 1-500
21 The first _____ took place in Cashel 1101
23 Palladius was the first ______ to be sent to Irish
Ch500 ADristians.431
24 ____ King Niall Glúndub reigned.916-919
27 Brian Bóruma captured Dublin, defeating Sitric
________. 1000
29 Mac Murchada and his Norman _____ captured
Dublin 1170
30 The _______ began to raid Ireland. 895
31 A time of severe famine and ______ 698-700
35 Henry II came to Dublin and the kings of
_______ Bréifne, Áirgialla and Ulster submitted
to him. 1171
37 People were speaking what we call
‘_________Modern Irish’. 1200
38 Henry II and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair signed the
Treaty of _______ 1175
41 By 837 the Vikings were starting to build _____-
term bases in Ireland.
46 In 823 Vikings killed bishops and _________ at
Bangor.
47 People began speaking what we call ‘Early
______ Irish.’900-911
48 St Columbanus began to travel on the Continent
to spread Christianity and found ___________s.
590
50 Brian Bóruma became king of ______.978
52 Henry II’s ten-year-old son John was made
‘____of Ireland’ 1177
55 The Vikings set up permanent settlements at
Annagassen and ______ 841
56 King Sitric and Bishop Dúnán founded ______
Church Cathedral in Dublin. 1028-1036
57 The king of ____ Flann Sinna, defeated Cormac
mac Cuilennáin, the king-bishop of Cashel, at
Belach Mughna. 908
