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====Early medieval era==== | ====Early medieval era==== | ||
{{main|Medieval Ardmore}} | {{main|Medieval Ardmore}} | ||
[[File:Brain_Boru_sculpture_outside_Chapel_Royal_outside_Dublin_Castle.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Sclupture of Duke [[Con Rose of Rosmore|Con Rose]] of [[Duchy of Rosmore|Rosmore]], ancestor of the royal [[House of Cannan]].]] | [[File:Brain_Boru_sculpture_outside_Chapel_Royal_outside_Dublin_Castle.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Sclupture of Duke [[Con Rose of Rosmore|Con Rose]] of [[Duchy of Rosmore|Rosmore]], one of the greatest heads of the ducal [[House of Rose]] and ancestor of the royal [[House of Cannan]].]] | ||
The early medieval era in what is now Ardmore began with the Age of Raiders when the various clans of the Ardmori Isles began to transform into feudal dynasties. These clans were under a loose cooperative organization that consisted of the chief's extended family, with each having a common set of shared values of honor and a strict code of discipline within a social hierarchy. Indeed, this organization would eventually transform into the basis for a formal feudal structure alongside the development of feudal dynasties. Due to many of these feudal dynasties not having much in terms of means to produce a sizeable amount of wealth due to the largely non-arable geography of the Ardmori Isles, the heads of these dynasties soon resorted to conducting land raids against both [[Calinthia]] and, to a much lesser extent due to its ability to effectively fight back, [[Urcea]]. Indeed, one of Ardmore's earliest greatest heroes, Pádraig MacDowell of the House of Kilkken, was killed in 877 while conducting a raid on the Urcean coast. | The early medieval era in what is now Ardmore began with the Age of Raiders when the various clans of the Ardmori Isles began to transform into feudal dynasties. These clans were under a loose cooperative organization that consisted of the chief's extended family, with each having a common set of shared values of honor and a strict code of discipline within a social hierarchy. Indeed, this organization would eventually transform into the basis for a formal feudal structure alongside the development of feudal dynasties. Due to many of these feudal dynasties not having much in terms of means to produce a sizeable amount of wealth due to the largely non-arable geography of the Ardmori Isles, the heads of these dynasties soon resorted to conducting land raids against both [[Calinthia]] and, to a much lesser extent due to its ability to effectively fight back, [[Urcea]]. Indeed, one of Ardmore's earliest greatest heroes, Pádraig MacDowell of the House of Kilkken, was killed in 877 while conducting a raid on the Urcean coast. | ||