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Excavation at 'Dathi's Mound', Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon
(Journal of Irish Archaeology, 1988)The partial excavation of the embanked mound and standing stone known as 'Dathi's Mound' at the royal site of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon, confirmed that the mound had been cut from a natural gravel ridge. It also revealed ... -
The exilic burial place of a Gaelic Irish community at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-07-27)This paper presents the findings of a survey of the funerary monuments and burial vault of an exiled community of Gaelic Irish who were interred (1608-23) at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. The site of their burial and ... -
Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-31)Hill- and mountain-top cairns and mounds in Ireland are often viewed as epiphenomenal features of the medieval landscape. In recent years, research on early medieval ferta, ancestral burial places cited in the legal procedure ... -
Formaoil na Fiann: hunting preserves and assembly places in Gaelic Ireland.
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Fortification in the North (1200 -1600)
(Aarhus University Press, 2011-11)This paper looks at different types of fortification used across north-west Europe between the twelfth and early seventeenth centuries. These incude castles, town walls, artillery fortifications, linear fortifications, ... -
The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age
(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 ... -
Future-proofing heritage in Ireland: community, education and stewardship
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Gaelic service kindreds and the landscape identity of Lucht Tighe
(Cork University Press, 2018-03-06)This paper discusses the character of the lands of householders who served the courts of Gaelic lords in later medieval Ireland and how their association with those lands, which were mostly of early medieval royal origin, ... -
The gathering place of Tír Fhiachrach? Archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co Sligo
(Royal Irish Academy, 2001)This paper explores evidence for modern popular gatherings on Aughris head land, Co. Sligo, and attempts to define the landscape on the headland where medieval royal assembly may also have taken place. The spatial ... -
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 ... -
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ... -
Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9
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The geophysial survey of the M3 toll-motorway corridor: a prelude to Tara's destruciton?
(Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2005)The geophysical survey of the ‘emerging preferred route’ of the M3 toll-motorway through the Tara/Skryne valley has identified a wealth of new archaeological monuments. Still greater numbers of sites have come to light ... -
Geophysical Survey at Rathcroghan 2010-2012
(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 ... -
Geophysical survey of Knowth Area 11 [Apppendix 8]
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Grogan, E. 2008 The Rath of the Synods, Tara, Co. Meath: excavations by Seán P. Ó Ríordáin. Wordwell, Dublin. Pp 172, Figs 49, Pls 7, Tables 4, Hardback, Price 40, ISBN 978-1-905569-24-3
(Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2011)[No abstract available] -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Home is Where the Heart(h) is': investigating medieval houses in Ireland 1100-1600 AD
(Wordwell, 2020-03-07){No abstract available]