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A3.6 Holocene vegetation history of SW Connemara, Co. Galway with particular reference to Carna and Roundstone
(Irish Quaternary Association, 2019)Conclusions A 14C-dated pollen profile from Loch an Chorcail, southern Carna peninsula provides a detailed record of vegetation and land-use change that spans most of the Holocene. Pine (P. sylvestris, i.e. Scots pine), ... -
Holocene vegetation dynamics, landscape change and human impact in western Ireland as revealed by multidisciplinary, palaeoecological investigations of peat deposits and bog-pine in lowland Connemara
(MDPI, 2021-11-15)Palaeoecological investigations, involving pollen analysis, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating of bog-pine, provide the basis for reconstruction of vegetation dynamics, landscape development, and human impact in two ... -
Bog-deal in Co. Clare, with particular reference to bog-pine and its significance
(Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society, 2022)The results of radiocarbon dating of bog-deal (three pine and one oak) from the north-west Burren (Gragan West) and south-west Clare (Binvoran and Tullaher) are reported on. The Binvoran and Tullaher samples yielded ... -
Gender and archaeology
(Oxford University Press, 2022-02-21)In archaeology, gender is not a simple man-woman binary classification. It is the performance and embodiment of an identity that intersects with age, sex, race, sexuality, and class. One is not born, but rather becomes, a ... -
The culture of castles in Tudor England and Wales, by Audrey M. Thorstad
(The English Historical Review, 2021-06-11)This book should be read by everyone who has an interest in castle studies and the social history of Tudor England more generally. It is a well-researched volume and the first interdisciplinary study devoted to Tudor ... -
Irish settlements and survival
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Post-glacial vegetation and landscape change in upland Ireland with particular reference to Mám Éan, Connemara
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)Holocene vegetation dynamics of mid-western Ireland are discussed with particular reference to the Galway and Mayo uplands, the development of upland blanket bog and the history of pine and yew. A detailed pollen profile ... -
A comparative archaeological review of the late prehistoric 'royal site' of Rathcroghan
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Tending the ‘Contested’ castle garden: Sowing seeds of feminist thought
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-02-09)Medieval women are typically portrayed as secluded, passive agents within castle studies. Although the garden is regarded as associated with women there has been little exploration of this space within medieval archaeology. ... -
Herstory: Exploring the material life of Gundrada de Warenne
(V & R Unipress GmbH and Bonn University Press, 2021-01)Scholarly work on castles draws on multiple sources from history, archaeology, art and architectural history to literary and religious studies. This places it inaunique position to be able to bring different threads together ... -
Ring(s) of truth: responses regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth
(Wordwell, 2019)Joe Fenwick shares some responses to his question regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth. -
Planting new ideas: A feminist gaze on medieval castles
(Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2021-01)The theme of the Château Gaillard 29 Conference “Vivre au Château” is very timely: studies of medieval castles have great potential to generate meaningful archaeologies, including biographies and life cycles as well as ... -
Rathcroghan revisited: A renewed archaeological and geophysical exploration of selected areas of the focal ritual complex
(Navan Research Group, 2020)A renewed programme of geophysical survey was implemented over selected archaeological features in the fields surrounding Rathcroghan mound during the summers of 2013 and 2014. This was undertaken as part of the Rathcroghan ... -
Multisensorial musings on miniature matters
(Akademie Verlag, 2020-11-12)This issue of ‘Das Mittelalter’ explores the voice of small things.2 We approach artefacts that are no bigger than one’s hand not as silent witnesses to people’s lives, but as agents that actively engage with human beings ... -
Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A reinterpretation of the chronological evidence from Céide Fields in north-western Ireland
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01-09)It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon of the Irish Early Neolithic analogous to later prehistoric Celtic fields in all but age. This study argues ... -
Shaky foundations: Romantic nationalism and the development of the 'Irish model' of Neolithic settlement
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Home is Where the Heart(h) is': investigating medieval houses in Ireland 1100-1600 AD
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Lea Castle: looking outwards
(Brepols Publishers, 2018)Lea Castle, Co. Laois, is located on the River Barrow where it occupied an important position at the borders of three medieval territories. The castle and landscape are currently neglected and in a poor state of repair. ...