Historians shed new light on first arrival of Vikings to Cork City

A free one-day webinar on June 19 will hear how the Vikings came to the city in two waves.

Howard Clarke, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Socio-Economic History at UCD, will argue that the first Viking arrivals in the 9th century built a fort or stronghold north of Cork's central island, around present-day North Main Street (pictured).

Two distinct waves of Vikings settled in Cork City and it's now believed the first settlement was not created in South Main Street, but North Main Street.

New theories on the arrival of the Norsemen in Cork are to be discussed by British and Irish academics at a free one-day webinar on June 19, organised by the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.