Lost in the landscape of a Norman Ireland

Richard Armitage tells Esther McCarthy about filming Pilgrimage, a new film about monks being hunted by knights in the 13th Century

A cast of stars did battle with the elements as well as each other in Pilgrimage, Brendan Muldowney’s gritty new drama set in a lawless 13th century Ireland.

The film follows a small group of monks on a pilgrimage, escorting their monastery’s holiest relic to Rome, in an Ireland torn apart by tribal warfare and violent Norman invaders.