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The Pale (An Pháil in Irish) or the English Pale (An Pháil Sasanach)
comprised a region on Ireland's east coast stretching from Dalkey, south of
Dublin, to the garrison town of
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north of Drogheda. The inland boundary went to Leixlip around the Earldom
of Kildare, towards Trim and north towards Kells. In this district, many
townlands have English, and even French names.
From the thirteenth century onwards, the Hiberno-Norman invasion in the
rest of Ireland at first faltered then waned. Across most of Ireland, the
Norman knights, and their servants who were mostly from Wales and Cornwall
assimilated to Ireland. A series of alliances with their neighbouring
autonomous Gaelic chieftains developed. The Norman lords in the provinces
behaved as kings in their own right in their own areas, as the Gaelic
chieftains had previously.
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