Country · 3 places dug
The history of Ireland
5 digs · 67 sourced records · last reviewed 16 October 2026
Strata has dug 3 places in Ireland — Dublin, Bandon, Templerobin: 5 spots of ground, 67 sourced records, from prehistory to the modern era. Each place below is a page of its own, assembled from what happened on particular ground there, with every record linked to its source.
Places dug in Ireland
The history of DublinA former prison, now a museum — Dublin's ground carries siege, rebellion and civil war in close company: a royalist army turned back at its walls in 1649, a British admiral's pillar stood and fell on O'Connell Street, and a gaol on Inchicore Road held and shot the men who tried to remake it. 3 digs39 records The history of BandonThe prince who crowned a dead king's son — Inside St Multose Church in Kinsale, Ireland, Prince Rupert of the Rhine proclaimed the executed Charles I's exiled son as Charles II, weeks after the January 1649 beheading in London reached the town. 1 dig
14 records The history of TemplerobinA monastery turned fortress turned prison — Templerobin takes in Spike Island in Cork Harbour, a 103-acre point of ground once held to be the site of Saint Mochuda's 7th-century monastery, later fortified, held by Norman lords and Irish gentry, used as a convict depot and prison, and reopened as a heritage site in 2004. 1 dig
14 records