Browsing Archaeology by Subject "Archaeology"

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    • 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 ...

    • Ballinderry Crannóg No. 2, Co. Offaly: the Later Bronze Age 

      Newman, Conor (Wordwell Limited in association with the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, 1997)
      A reconsideration of the later Bronze Age horizon at Ballinderry No. 2 where the Harvard Archaeological Mission uncovered a substantial rectangular wooden building. A case is made for the former existence of a second such ...

    • 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

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Cheques and Balances 

      Waddell, John (Archaeology Ireland, 2005)

    • 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 ...

    • Crewbane souterrain and nearby archaeologial features, Brugh na Bóinne, Slane, Co. Meath 

      Fenwick, Joseph P.; Dowling, Ger; Schot, Roseanne; Rogers, John (Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2012)
      [No abstract available]

    • The Cultural and Environmental Impact of Large Dams in Southeast Turkey 

      Ronayne, Maggie (National University of Ireland, Galway and Kurdish Human Rights Project, 2005)
      This study of the cultural and environmental impacts of large dams in Southeast Turkey brings together evidence from and interviews with people affected by hydroelectric dam projects planned for the Munzur, Tigris and ...

    • 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 ...

    • Excavation at 'Dathi's Mound', Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon 

      Waddell, John (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 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (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 ...

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

      Elizabeth FitzPatrick (Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 2013)
      [No abstract available]

    • 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 early seventeenth centuries. These incude castles, town walls, artillery fortifications, linear fortifications, ...

    • Foundation myths: The beginnings of Irish archaeology 

      Waddell, John (Wordwell, 2005)
      [No abstract available]

    • 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 gathering place of Tír Fhiachrach? Archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co Sligo 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (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 ...

    • Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9 

      Fenwick, Joseph P.; Newman, Conor (Royal Irish Academy for the Discovery Programme, 2002-01)
      [No abstract available]

    • The geophysial survey of the M3 toll-motorway corridor: a prelude to Tara's destruciton? 

      Fenwick, Joseph P. (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 

      Schot, Roseanne; Waddell, John; Fenwick, Joseph P. (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 ...