Spent the last while building this as a passion project and figured this sub would either enjoy it or tear it apart, both of which are useful to me.
It's myireland.ie — no ads, nothing to buy, just an atlas of Ireland's history. Main bits:
- A timeline slider that runs from the first settlers to the present, showing who held what across the 32 counties at each point
- A Famine map comparing every county's population in 1841 vs 1851
- A surname map showing where families and clans came from
- Pages on placenames, monuments, myths, and a "guess the age" quiz for the monuments
Two known weak points I'll own up front: old kingdoms and lordships didn't follow modern county lines, so the boundaries are approximations, and some of the further-reading links are Wikipedia while I work through proper sources. If you know your own county's history and something's off, tell me and I'll fix it.
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d4diaz
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The first Irish… You have that at 8000 bc? But in the last few days some welsh and Irish academics have changed that to 15000 years ago and proven it with cave art and markings in south east Ireland. Worth a search.
Nice concept for a site..I am interested in this stuff too.
Looking at in on a phone, who holds the land legend is a long scroll away- it should be right under or above the map ideally. Just a suggestion.
Class fair play