Major viking site ‘could have become capital’

ONE of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe has been discovered near the fishing village of Annagassan in Co Louth.

It dates from 841, the same year Dublin was founded, and is believed to have been the previously unidentified fortress of Linnduchaill – one of two chosen by the Vikings when they decided to overwinter in Ireland.

The other location was what would become Dublin.