Topographia Hibernica

An Irish kingship ritual, from British Library Royal MS 13 B VIII, c. 1220
Kingfishers and a stork, from British Library Royal MS 13 B VIII, c. 1220
Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, by Gerald of Wales
Diarmaid mac Murchadha as depicted in the Expugnatio Hibernica, c. 1189

Topographia Hibernica (Latin for Topography of Ireland), also known as Topographia Hiberniae, is an account of the landscape and people of Ireland written by Gerald of Wales around 1188, soon after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It was the longest and most influential work on Ireland circulating in the Middle Ages, and its direct influence endured into the early modern period.