Waterford Viking Walking Tours

24/05/2018

24/05/2018

06/09/2017

Its been a quite year folk's but been busy with my wife who's very sick she has been out of work since last march and will be for a while yet that's why I haven't posted any new photos or video, s so maybe next better look thank you for her patients have a good winter a and be. Safe will talk soon promiss ( the nitedog )

08/08/2016

Godarrd nitedog a 100ft under strongbow settlement as it burns to the ground ha ha

08/08/2016

Godarrd nitedog returning the invite to strongbow to visit his settlement

15/07/2016

Was a pressure to meet this gentleman last year as his visited the museum. This gentleman was the man that found 5,200 gold Saxon coins in England..

15/07/2016

This is picture is from last year of myself and cormac in buzzra on 53 johns street doing the Viking burger channel..

15/07/2016

Ground zero 800 yrs ago, it was a pleasure to be under Waterford city..

15/07/2016

Big thanks to the family in portlaw
for the private visits to see this amazing tower..Anyone every want to see it you will have to take a spin on the river..

15/07/2016

The new church at the Rock of cashel..

31/03/2016

Its nice to see the sun shinning here in waterford city and once again we are open for summer tours book early because we do get booked quite quickly looking forward to seen you again this year godarrd nitedog

10/10/2015

Today myself and the girls showed Rónán Ó Snodaig a thing or two about bodhrans. It was great catching up with you again Rónán, best of luck with tonite in st patricks church..

24/08/2015

Ever wonder what Godarrd does when not walking around his beautiful city.. Here it is..

22/08/2015

What a beautiful day to walk around my village in my beloved city of Waterford..The festivities have only begone,tomorrow will be the wedding of Strongbow and Aoife in my city..please come join the celebration.. Godarrd

15/06/2015

Curraghmore house is waterford,s downton abbey with an acre and a half fabulous courtyard surrounded by trees and stables. it boasts magnificent stonework, a hall anyone would die for with a staircase the design never to be seen again, the gardens are spectaculor i really enjoyed my visit there on friday night last with my colleagues from the waterford museum of treasures. The history we have in that one house alone on our doorstep just 12 miles from waterford city centre is outstanding. i would like to take the oppertunity to thank bazz and his wife, they are a credit to themselves and the lord and lady of the house and the people of portlaw this is certainly a must see on your list of thinks to see and do in waterford city and county

23/02/2015

09/01/2015

Good evening my good friends,I would like to invite you to visit my new home at the museum for a tanker of ale,here are some pic for your enjoyment,,

19/11/2014

Lindisfarne today.. Looking out towards the north sea..

18/11/2014

Waterford viking tours would like to extend our condolence to the family of the little angel who was killed this morning n waterford city

01/11/2014

please like and share - make this day Waterford's Busiest!

The Waterford Business Group are asking ALL the people of Waterford to support local shopping this Christmas with the launch of a “Shop Local Saturday” on 8th November. Launching the event will members of Waterford Business Group as well as City Centre businesses.

The event will be officially launched with the WLR FM Blaster Caster broadcasting live from John Roberts Square on Friday 7th November. Billy McCarthy and his Deise AM programme will broadcast live for 2 hours across the City and County in support of this promotion.

“We are delighted to bring a pre-Christmas awareness campaign around the importance of supporting and shopping local this Christmas period. Whilst there will be plenty of hype around the build up to the switching on of the lights and the launch of Winterval we felt that it was essential to promote rediscovering your City and encourage Waterford people to LIVE LOCAL, LOVE LOCAL and SHOP LOCAL for the jersey,” commented Cllr Eddie Mulligan, Chair of the Waterford Business Group.

Cllr Mulligan continued, “Pre-Christmas is as essential for business as the whole Christmas period in general. At this time of year some of the City’s businesses will generate as much as 20-30% of their annual turnover. It is this additional turnover that ultimately keeps people employed in the City, right the way through the year. By shopping local you are helping to sustain some 1500 jobs throughout the City and the City Centre is after all our second largest employer and it is therefore worth promoting and more importantly merits everyone’s support. We all personally know someone who works in the City Centre and with existing businesses, and new businesses, fighting to keep people employed they can only do this with the support from local people.”

During Fridays two hour live broadcast there will be lots of giveaways and prizes offered to people in and around the City Centre. Be sure to tune into Deise AM on Friday 7th November or better still get down to John Roberts Square to join in the fun between 10am and 12 noon.

Michael Garland, PRO of Waterford Business Group, commented, “We can see light at the end of the tunnel in terms of recovery in and around the City Centre. The existing businesses are determined to remain open and with new business being attracted to the City Centre, through our continued efforts, we will bring Waterford City back to the fore as the destination of choice in the South East. However, to do this there must be a huge collective effort and we are sure that the people of Waterford also want to see their City succeed and grow. Let us start on Saturday 8th November and we all need to make a conscious effort to LIVE LOCAL, LOVE LOCAL and SHOP LOCAL.”

WLR FM Blaster Caster and “Shop Local Saturday” are sponsored by Waterford Business Group and its many members.

19/10/2014

Yarl Godarrd interviews Ryan Tubridy haha

10/07/2014

I touch your spirt
in the same way
you touch my heart

03/07/2014

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26/06/2014

Chapter two

If documentation about the construction of Mocollop is non-existent then sourcing any documents on the castle’s later history is just as difficult. The destruction of the Earldom of Desmond towards the end of the 16th century by two wars with the burning and looting of many castles caused many documents to vanish forever. Further losses occurred in the succeeding centuries culminating with the destruction of the Public Record Office during the Civil War of 1922-23 means that we are left with very few documents. The writings of antiquaries help fill the gaps.

We know that Sir Robert le Poer held the County Waterford in the 1180s which included Mocollop and that the Power family continued to own property in the area up to at least 1329. Yet finding who owned Mocollop for the first fifty years as a stone castle is as yet beyond our abilities to find out. In 1280 Philip le Blund (White) held Mocollop. He also held the land of Whitechurch near Cork city and may have given that place his name. Philip was said to be an ancestor of the Doneraile historian Lieutenant Colonel James Grove White.[24]

At what time and by what means did the White family acquire Mocollop is unknown. The three usual options are by way of marriage, purchase or by gift of the crown.

In October 1285 Philip White of Mocollop and William Terry paid a half mark to the Dublin Exchequer for the pledge of Walter White.[25] The reason for this pledge is unknown but it possibly was to keep the peace or as insurance to fulfil a legal obligation. In May 1291 the vill of Mocollop paid 60s for allowing the escape of Richard Mariscis. The vill paid a further 40s in November 1291 for the same offence.[26] At that time the local manor was the first stage in the judicial process as well as been a landed estate. Local manors often placed local law breakers in their own local jail or secured facility. If a prisoner escaped the local vill or township was fined for allowing the escape when they should have had better incarceration facilities.

Philip White had two sons the younger of whom got four carucates of land in the parish of Ballyclogh, near Mallow. The elder son called Alan White got Mocollop along with other lands in County Cork. Alan White died around 1290 leaving a daughter called Elena as heir. Elena White was only a child when her father died and so was made a ward of the crown. Odo de Barry was made her guardian.

The north side of Mocollop Castle showing L to R the north-east tower, the keep and the gate-house.

In 1298 William Fitz William de Barry got Elena White to transfer the manors of Ardonoyth and Talaghocorkeran, County Cork, into his ownership. About the same time Mocollop was transferred to Sir John de Barry of Castlelyons.[27]

Having said the above there is a reference in the Carew Manuscripts to Lord Barry claiming the possession of Mocollop in 1229 as his inheritance.[28] This needs further research as William Fitz Philip de Barry, Lord of Olethan in Ireland continued to hold his ancestral castle of Maynaurpir castle near Pembroke in Wales. The similar spelling of both locations, especially when trying to read abbreviated Latin hand writing that is over 700 years old, makes further research important before judgement