Explore by century

Choose a period to follow the people, records, places and events. This selection grows as the research is added.

• 7th–8th centuries — Law, the bell and their early setting
• 9th century — Armagh and the wider world
• 10th century — Relics and the successors of Patrick
• 11th century — The bell and its shrine
• 12th century — The bell, the church and the kings
• 14th century — Keepers and the kindred
• 15th century — The families in the records
• 16th century — Names in the Elizabethan records
• 17th century — Land, war and the families
• 18th century — The Mulhollans and the bell
• 19th century — The bell and the written record