Mullaghboden

MCHBI Ref: IRL0167

Updated: 03-03-2024

Location And Setting

Region: Ireland
County: Kildare
Mapped location accuracy: > 1000 meters

Timing

Deposited: In or after c.846

Discovery

Discovered: 1871
Circumstances: Unknown
Context: Unknown
Feature: Unknown

Container And Contents

Container: Unknown
Hoard Type: Coins only

Coin Summary

Num. of coins: 11-
Latest Coin: Data req'd.
Coins issued by: Carolingian undiff. [4], Louis the Pious [3], Pepin I or II undiff. [2], Charles the Bald [2]

Disposition

1 coin of Prou 689 in British Museum, and examples of Prou 692 and 987 in Clongowes Wood College with tinfoil impressions of 5 other coins.

Summary Notes

11+ Carolingian. The only find from Britain and Ireland composed solely of Carolingian coins: these must have been collected in Aquitaine c. 845, and may have belonged to a Viking who left France after the campaigns of 843-6 and fought in the Irish campaigns of 846-8, following Turgesius's overthrow. Coins include: Louis the Pious-Melle. Pippin I or II—Melle, Charles the Bald—Melle.

References

Hall, R. A., 1974. "A check-list of Viking-age coin finds from Ireland", UJA 367 (1973-4), 71-86. (link)
Dolley, R. H. M. with K. F. Morrison. "Finds of Carolingian coins from Great Britain and Ireland", BNJ 32, (1963), 75-87. (link)
Dolley, R. H. M., "The 1871 Viking-Age find of silver coins from Mullaghboden as a reflection of Westfalding intervention in Ireland", Årbok - Universitetets oldsaksamling (Oslo), (1960/1), 49-62.
Shearman, J.F., 1873, in "Proceedings', J. Roy. Sec. Antiq, Ireland, 2 (1872-3), 13-16.