1. THE NORMANS
By
Caoimhe Hamrogue

2. Irish
kingdoms
when the
Normans
landed

3.  The Normans wore chainmail and iron
helmets.

4.  They painted their lord’s emblem on the
shields.

5.  The Normans had cavalry (rode horses).

7.  The coming of the Anglo-Normans to Ireland
in the 1170s has become known as the Norman
Invasion. The Normans had originally come to
England and Wales from Normandy in France.
A new monastic order, the Cistercians from
France, had been invited to Ireland in 1142
even before the Normans arrived and founded
the Cistercian Mellifont Abbey in County
Louth.

8. Pictures of the
Cistercian
Mellifont
Abbey