Browsing Archaeology by Type "Book chapter"

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    • A3.6 Holocene vegetation history of SW Connemara, Co. Galway with particular reference to Carna and Roundstone 

      O'Connell, Michael; McDonnell, Karina (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), ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • A comparative archaeological review of the late prehistoric 'royal site' of Rathcroghan 

      Fenwick, Joseph P. (Geography Publications, 2018)
      [No abstract available]

    • 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 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 ...

    • 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, ...

    • Gaelic service kindreds and the landscape identity of Lucht Tighe 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (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, ...

    • Gender and archaeology 

      Dempsey, Karen (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 ...

    • Geophysical survey of Knowth Area 11 [Apppendix 8] 

      Fenwick, Joseph P. (Royal Irish Academy, 2012-06)
      [No abstract available]

    • Herstory: Exploring the material life of Gundrada de Warenne 

      Dempsey, Karen (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 ...

    • A horrid-nice day at Knowth 

      Fenwick, Joseph P. (Wordwell, 2018)
      [No abstract available]

    • In the way of development: Tara, the M3 and the Celtic Tiger 

      Newman, Conor (Manchester University Press, 2015-01)
      Examines the context of the decision to construct a motorway through the historical landscape of Tara, touching on the broader issue of the relevance of heritage in contemporary Ireland.

    • The last kings of Ireland: material expressions of Gaelic lordship c.1300-1400 A.D. 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Routledge, 2016-04-27)
      During the later medieval period in Ireland, Gaelic lords continued to publicly identify themselves as immediate descendants of kings through carefully chosen elements of material culture. Evocations of Gaelic kingship in ...

    • Memorialising Gaelic Ireland: the curious case of the Ballyshannon fragments and the Irish monuments at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Guildhall Press, 2010)
      The burial place of the exiled Irish at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome (Pl. 1), is perhaps the most iconic Irish diaspora funerary site in Europe, not least because the community interred there (1608–23) are found in ...

    • Misinformation, disinformation and downright distortion: the battle to save Tara 1999-2005 

      Newman, Conor (Arlen House, Galway, 2007)
      The routing of a new motorway, the M3, through the valley between the Hill of Tara and Skreen, prompted international controversy. Conor Newman traces the history of a proposal that did irreparable damage to the culturally ...

    • Pre-Norman fortification in eleventh and twelfth-century Ireland 

      O'Conor, Kieran; Naessens, Paul (Publications du CRAHM, Château Gaillard, Université de Caen, 2012)
      This paper examines the evolution of fortification in Connacht during the 11th and 12th centuries, prior to the arrival of theAnglo-Normans to Ireland in 1169. Our main argument is that Irish fortresses of the period, while ...

    • Rindoon Castle, Co. Roscommon: a border castle on the Irish frontier. 

      O'Conor, Kieran; Naessens, Paul; Sherlock, Rory (Publications du CRAHAM, Château Gaillard, Université de Caen., 2014)
      Rindoon Castle controlled and dominated one of the best harbours along the Shannon. It was argued that a pre-Norman promontory fort never existed at Rindoon. Instead, it is suggested that these earthworks represent the ...

    • 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 ...