Discovery of Viking house remains in Cork ‘highly significant’
The 1,000-year-old remains of a rectangular Viking house just off the city’s South Main Street and close to the River Lee, prove conclusively that Vikings sailed up the Lee sometime in the 11th century to settled here.
Patrick Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, and the man who directed the Wood Quay excavation in Dublin, visited the site last week and confirmed the houses to be Viking Type 1.
