The Vikings Are Coming!!

Dublinia

For the last few weeks our class have been studying The Vikings. We have learned so much about them. 

We went to Dublinia, had a medieval tour of Dublin, we made Viking costumes, created a comic strip using green screen technology and launched a Viking attack on Mr. Heneghan.

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Our Medieval Tour of Dublin City

Our teacher brought us on a short tour of Medieval Dublin. We went to Cook Street (named so because people were not allowed to cook within the city walls in medieval times in case they burnt the city down) and we saw the largest surviving part of the original city walls that once surrounded our city. They are over two metres thick! The gates of St. Audeon's Arch were specially opened for us and we had great fun running through the only surviving city gate, some people say it's the most haunted part of Dublin!

Next we visited Wood Quay, the original Viking settlement in Dublin. Unfortunately, the Civic Offices were built over this in the 1980s. We looked at the bronze replicas of artefacts set in to the cobblestone to see what kind of evidence was found here when they excavated. We also looked at the outline of a Viking longhouse. Here we are standing around one. It looks big but a lot of people would have slept, cooked and ate in this one room. We picked out the bedding areas, the cooking areas and we think we even found where the toilets were!!