• Fortification in the North (1200 -1600) 

  O'Conor, Kieran (Aarhus University Press, 2011-11)

  This paper looks at different types of fortification used across north-west Europe between the twelfth and arly seventeenth centuries. These incude castles, town walls, artillery fortifications, linear fortifications, ...

• Geophysical Survey at Rathcroghan 2010-2012 

  Schot, Roseanne; Waddell, John; Fenwick, Joe (Navan Research Group, 2016)

  Following an extensive programme of geophysical survey at Rathcroghan published in 2009, five hitherto unexplored areas were surveyed using magnetic gradiometry in 2010–12. In an area south of Oweynagat a faint circular ...

• Ollamh, biatach, comharba: lifeways of Gaelic learned families in medieval and early modern Ireland 

  FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015)

  [No abstract available]

• The symbolism of zoomorphic penannular brooches 

  Newman, Conor; Burke, Sandra (2013)

  Exploration of the zoomorphic and Christian symbolism on zoomorphic penannular brooches (5th to 7th centuries AD). It is suggested that the underlying symbol of a bi-cephalic zoomorph has meanings that are not intrinsically ...

• Where worlds meet. Two Irish prehistoric mountain-top ‘villages’ 

  Bergh, Stefan (Università di Macerata, 2015)

  Mountains and high ground are often venerated as special places. It is their enigmatic quality as high places, their prominence and permanence in both the mental and physical landscapes that draws us to them. In the ...

• The elusive image 

  Waddell, John (Wordwell, 2009)

  It is now possible to identify one symbol in Celtic La Tène art found in Continental Europe and in prehistoric Britain and Ireland that appears to be an expression of a complex religious cosmology. This is the elusive (and ...

• Future-proofing heritage in Ireland: community, education and stewardship 

  Newman, Conor (Heritage Council, 2015)

  Published by the Heritage Council in Heritage Outlook (2015), 2-4

• Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland 

  FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (2015)

  This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland.

• Formaoil na Fiann: hunting preserves and assembly places in Gaelic Ireland. 

  Elizabeth FitzPatrick (Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 2013)

  [No abstract available]

• The Cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld 

  Waddell, John (2014)

  Oweynagat (Úaimh na gCat), the cave of the cats, is a natural cave with a souterrain attached in the royal site of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon. Today it is an inconspicuous monument but is famous in early literature as an ...

• Cheques and Balances 

  Waddell, John (Archaeology Ireland, 2005)

• The Neolithic dates from Carrowmore 1978-98: A source critical review 

  Bergh, Stefan (2013)

  This report is the companion document to: Bergh and Hensey. 2013. Unpicking the chronology of Carrowmore. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34 (4), 343-366. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ojoa.12019/abstract

• The Celticization of the West: an Irish perspective 

  Waddell, John (1991)

  It is argued that the emergence of a Celtic language in Ireland was the culmination of a long process of social and economic interaction at an elite level between Ireland and Britain, and between these islands and adjacent ...

• Tal-y-Llyn and the nocturnal voyage of the sun 

  Waddell, John (2012)

  The question 'Where does the sun go at night?' may have occupied both prehistoric and Medieval minds. It may be depicted on some Bronze Age and Iron Age metalwork. Proof copy of an article published in W. J. Britnell and ...

• The sacral landscape of Tara: a preliminary exploration 

  Newman, Conor (2011)

  In a preliminary exploration of the Tara landscape, this article examines features of the land between the twin hills of Tara and of Skreen, a broad valley through which flows the Gabhra river and now crudely divided by ...

• Continuity, cult and contest 

  Waddell, John (Four Courts Press, 2011)

  The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject of some debate. The phrase a window on the Iron Age once encapsulated a view that epic tales in particular depicted a ...

• The Sword in the Stone: previously unrecognised archaeological evidence of ceremonies of the later Iron Age and early medieval period 

  Newman, Conor (2009)

  Published in G. Cooney et al. (eds), Relics of Old Decency: archaeological studies in later prehistory. Festschrift for Barry Raftery (Wordwell, Dublin, 2009), 425-36, this is a proof copy of an introduction to on-going ...

• The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age 

  Ó Ríordáin, Breandán; Waddell, John (Galway University Press, 1993)

  This illustrated corpus of pottery from burial contexts in Bronze Age Ireland c. 2500-1500 BC was prepared by John Waddell with the assistance of Breandán Ó Ríordáin and the National Museum of Ireland. It includes a study ...

• The Archaeology of Aran 

  Waddell, John (Tír Eolas, Kinvara, 1994)

  The Book of Aran contains chapters on the geology, flora and fauna, archaeology, history and culture of the three Aran Islands, Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr. Chapter 5 is a detailed account of the islands' archaeology ...

• The Bronze Age Burials of Ireland 

  Waddell, John (Galway University Press, 1990)

  A county-by-county survey of Irish Bronze Age burials recorded up to the mid 1980s

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