Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Archaeology"
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Archaeological watermarks: Settlement, landscape and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-21)Turloughs are karst wetland ecosystems that are virtually unique to Ireland. They are intermittently inundated on an annual basis, mainly from groundwater. This thesis concerns the interaction of past communities with the ... -
Booleying in Achill, Achillbeg and Corraun: survey, excavation and analysis of booley settlements in the Civil Parish of Achill
(2014-04-24)Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves the movement of livestock and their keepers from lowland, permanent settlements to summer pasture, usually in the uplands, ... -
Boundary behaviour in the Irish Bronze Age: A study of social and ritual practices in the mid-late Bronze Age
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-08)The purpose of this thesis is to gain an insight into how boundaries were understood and utilised in the social and ritual lives of Bronze Age people. Boundaries are known in many forms, from visible physical linear ... -
Calendars, feasting, cosmology and identities: later Neolithic-early Bronze Age Ireland in European context
(2016-07-25)The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ... -
Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: Studies of transplantation settlement in Connacht and Clare
(2012-10-26)This thesis is a study of three diverse Catholic families that received land during the mid seventeenth-century Cromwellian transplantation to and within Connacht and Clare. Transplantees, while being united in their ... -
An examination of glass beads from early medieval Ireland
(2013-08-18)This is the first dedicated and comprehensive study of glass beads from Early Medieval Ireland, presenting the first national classification, typology, dating and consideration of the social context and symbology of glass ... -
An examination of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge In Irish Christian art and iconography
(2016-11-29)This thesis is the first study investigating the motif of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge in Irish Christian art and iconography between the seventh and twelfth centuries AD. It deals with the pre-Christian Irish ... -
Exchange in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) Ireland: Connecting people, objects and ideas
(2014-12-01)The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) in Ireland were periods of great flux, out of which and into which, novel technologies and institutions emerged and were transmitted. This thesis combines analysis of the material ... -
In His Silvis Silere: The Monastic Site of Annegray - Studies in a Columbanian Landscape.
(2012-09-21)The monastic site of Annegray lies in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains in eastern France. Founded by the Irish saint, Columbanus, at some stage around 591A.D., it was the first of what was to become a group of three ... -
Irish and Roman relations: A comparative analysis of the evidence for exchange, acculturation and clientship from Southeast Ireland
(2013-12-20)My research presents a study of Roman finds from the Southeast of Ireland, with specific emphasis placed on the use and meaning of these artefacts in their local Irish contexts. These objects must be understood not just ... -
Magnetic and interpolation techniques in the identification and analysis of metal contaminants In urban soils
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-28)Soil pollution has been identified as the third most important threat to soil quality in Europe. There are an estimated ~2,000 potentially contaminated sites in Ireland alone. Metal contamination has been identified as one ... -
Medieval settlement enclosures and resource management of living trees in Gaelic Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-23)The aim of this thesis is to problematise and investigate relationships between living trees and earthen settlement enclosures, mainly termed ráth and commonly used by Gaelic society in medieval Ireland (c. 8th – 17th ... -
A multi-disciplinary study of lordly centres in the later medieval Uí Chellaig lordship of Uí Maine, c.1100-1600 AD.
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-22)The Ó Cellaig lordship of Uí Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. The central aim of this thesis is to identify and reconstruct the physical appearance of ... -
Negotiating the landscape: Prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscape of esker and bog
(2017-10-20)The aim of this thesis is to understand movement and the evolution of routeways. The role of the individual and their decision-making process is discussed as a fundamental factor in the origins of paths and routeways. This ... -
Parks and Deer-Hunting: Evidence from Medieval Ireland
(2012-05-14)This thesis examines aspects of hunting in later medieval Ireland, with particular reference to the Anglo-Norman period, from 1169 to c. 1350. The focus is on deer hunting and on parks, in which fallow deer could be kept. ... -
Patronage and Observance: The Franciscan and Dominican friaries in the Connacht lordships of Clann Uilliam Uachtair and Clann Uilliam Íochtair, 1350-1550
(2012-05-18)This research examines the Franciscan and Dominican friaries in the Connacht Burke lordships of Clann Uilliam Íochtair and Clann Uilliam Uachtair in the west of Ireland, 1350-1550. The principal aims are to establish how ... -
People, land-use and time: linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data to the archaeological record of prehistoric Co. Clare, Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-23)The aim of this thesis is to understand the nature of changing human-environment interactions through prehistory (from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age) in two neighbouring regions of western Ireland. The first is the ... -
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland - Material Culture, Practices, Landscape Setting and Social Context
(2014-02-20)This thesis develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record, as well as determining how distinct ritual practices relate to ... -
Rural landscapes of improvement in Ireland, 1650-1850: An archaeological landscape study
(2015-01-13)Ireland's modern landscapes of fields and farms were largely fashioned in the later historic period, between c.1650 and 1850. This was the infancy of modern rural Ireland, when the concepts of property and tenure, landlords ... -
Settlement clusters at parish churches in Ireland, c. 1200-1600 AD
(2016-04-06)This thesis investigates the archaeology and cultural history of small settlements that occur at parish churches in English- and Gaelic- dominated lordships of Ireland, c. 1200-1600 AD, in order to propose their origins ...