Discovering Medieval Ferns, Co. Wexford

REVIEW BY MARIE THERESE FLANAGAN Discovering Medieval Ferns, Co. Wexford, focuses on the town as a regional religious and royal centre in the Kingdom of Leinster during the medieval period. It provides reports on surveys and excavations at three sites. The first site examined is the 12th-century Augustinian St Mary’s Abbey, of which only the partially preserved church survives, although survey techniques have identified elements of claustral buildings. The second site is the remains of St Edan’s 13th-century cathedral in Ferns, which overlaid an early medieval monastic site reputedly founded around the turn of the 7th century by St Aidan, hypocoristically also known as St Máedóc