Írland

Írland is the Old Norse name used here for Ireland. For a Viking-age campaign, it is a western island of ports, river routes, monastic sites, Norse settlements, Irish kingdoms, trade, raiding, and tangled alliances.

It can be treated as a place where sea travel, local politics, and old sacred sites all matter at once.

• Type: Island region / western sea route.
• Region: Ireland.
• Campaign status: Available future location.

• Skotland
• England
• Orkneyjar
• Ísland

• Temair (Tara): Ceremonial kingship site in Mide, tied to the idea of high kingship and the older sacred landscape.
• Ard Macha (Armagh): Major northern church, monastic school, and Patrician power center; an obvious source of relics, scribes, and church politics.
• Cluain Mhic Nóis (Clonmacnoise): Great monastery on the Shannon where a major road crossed the river; useful for learning, craft, trade, pilgrimage, and royal burial ties.
• Cill Dara (Kildare): Brigid's great church and monastery, important for religion, learning, craft, and feminine spiritual authority.
• Gleann Dá Loch (Glendalough): Wicklow monastic valley founded by Kevin; remote enough for hermits, relics, and hidden approaches through rough country.
• Caiseal (Cashel): Royal center of Munster, later famous as the Rock of Cashel; useful for southern kingship and Eóganacht politics.
• Cruachain / Rathcroghan: Connacht royal and mythic landscape, associated with Medb and deep older stories.
• Bangor: Important monastic center on the northeast coast, useful for sea-borne contact with Britain and the Hebrides.
• Áth Cliath / Duiblinn (future Dublin): Around 800, not yet the major Norse town; useful as a ford, pool, and later longphort site after Scandinavian activity intensifies.
• Linn Duachaill: Future longphort site on the east coast, paired in later records with Dublin; useful as a potential raider camp or abandoned opportunity.

The party has not yet visited Írland in the recorded campaign. Keep it available for Dublin-style Norse towns, monastery raids or defenses, hostage politics, mercenary work, river travel, or encounters with unfamiliar local customs.

• Confidence: high for Írland as the Old Norse name for Ireland.
• Around 800 AD, Dublin and Linn Duachaill should be treated as future Viking sites rather than established Norse towns; longphort settlement belongs later in the 9th century.
• No current adventure placement has been recorded.