Our Heritage Services

Our guided tours are the flagship offering of Gall Culture Ireland. Led by professional historians with postgraduate qualifications, these tours take participants to key Gall heritage sites across Ireland, including Viking-age town foundations, Norse-Irish ecclesiastical sites, and medieval fortifications associated with Hiberno-Norse lords.

Each tour is carefully structured to provide historical context before visiting each site, allowing participants to understand what they are seeing in relation to the broader narrative of Gall settlement and cultural exchange. Tours are available for individuals, families, school groups, and corporate clients.

Tour Types Available

• Half-day walking tour (3–4 hours): Focus on a single town or site complex.
• Full-day tour (6–8 hours): Covers multiple sites within a county or region.
• Multi-day heritage journey (2–5 days): Cross-country itinerary covering major Gall heritage sites.
• Family heritage tour: Adapted for children aged 8+, with interactive elements and replica artefacts.
• Academic field trip: Structured for university groups, with pre-reading packs and post-visit seminars.

Our research team provides professional archival research services for individuals, families, academic institutions, and media organisations. We have extensive experience navigating Irish, British, Norse, and continental European archives to locate records relating to Gall settlement, Norse-Irish interactions, and medieval Irish society.

Research services are available on a project basis or as an ongoing retainer for institutions with regular research needs. All research outputs are delivered as structured written reports with full citations and, where appropriate, digital copies of relevant primary sources.

Research Areas

• Genealogical research: tracing family connections to Hiberno-Norse or Norman-Gaelic lineages.
• Place-name research: investigating the Norse and Gaelic origins of Irish place names.
• Material culture: identifying and contextualising artefacts of Gall origin.
• Documentary history: locating and interpreting references to Gall communities in medieval Irish annals.
• Linguistic research: tracing Old Norse loanwords in Irish and English dialects.

We design and deliver structured educational programmes for primary schools, secondary schools, third-level institutions, and community learning groups. All programmes are aligned with the Irish national curriculum where applicable and can be adapted for international educational frameworks.

Our educational content covers the Viking Age in Ireland (795–1014 CE), the Battle of Clontarf and its aftermath, the Norman-Gaelic synthesis of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the long-term legacy of Gall settlement on Irish language, culture, and identity. We use a combination of lectures, workshops, site visits, and digital resources.