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Castell Henllys Iron Age Village
The story
History of Castell Henllys Iron Age Village
The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169. It was opened to the public in 1987.
Ireland
- Country
- Ireland
- UNESCO
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- Coordinates
- 52.017, -4.744
In depth
The fuller history
The park contains 16 reconstructed dwellings, including a Mesolithic camp, a Neolithic farmstead, a portal dolmen, a cist grave, a stone circle, a medieval ringfort, a monastic site, crannóg, and a Viking harbour. It covers 13.7 hectares (34 acres) of parkland, estuary trails, and wetland forest. It is a nonprofit organisation and all of its receipts from admissions, restaurant, and shop sales go back into the maintenance of the park.
Key dates
- 1169The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169.
- 1987It was opened to the public in 1987.
Historical summary drawn from Wikipedia. Read the full article.
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