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Understanding 'Hall-Houses': Debating Seigneurial buildings in Ireland in the 13th century
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)
THE SEIGNURIAL HALL and chamber have been assumed, in both Britain and Ireland, to be typically located in the only building to generally survive on medieval residential sites. In England this idea has seen some revision, ...
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. ...
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. ...
Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-18)
[No abstract available]
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 ...
Lea Castle: the story so far
(Castle Studies Group, 2016)
You could almost be forgiven for not knowing
about Lea Castle: it is not located off an
‘important’ modern road, it is not set in an
urban environment and it is not open to the
public. Lea is possibly one of Ireland’s ...
Rectangular chamber-towers and their medieval halls: A recent look at the buildings formerly described as “Hall-Houses”
(Presse Universitaires de Caen, 2016)
The interpretation of the 13th-century castles formerly
described as “hall-houses” has recently been a contentious
topic in Irish (and Scottish) castle-studies2
. Little interpretive analysis of these buildings had been ...
Book Review: Lived Experience in the later Middle Ages: studies of Bodiam and other elite landscapes in south-eastern England
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-20)
[No abstract available]
In search of the lost 'cromlech' of Knowth: Geophysical investigations in Area 10 of the Knowth Passage Tomb cemetery, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath.
(Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2019)
The passage tomb cemetery of Knowth (Fig. 1) is part of the UNESCO Brú na
Bóinne World Heritage Site, Co. Meath. It forms an integral and important
component of what was once a great prehistoric numinous precinct
embraced ...
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.