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Where Saint Columba's Island Monastery Faced Viking Terror

795 AD witnessed the first Danish raid on Irish soil when Viking longships descended upon Lambay Island's monastic settlement established by Saint Columba around 530 AD, ransacking and burning the church buildings in an attack that marked the beginning of three centuries of No…

Portrane is a small place in County Dublin. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.