In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey outline the evolution in recent centuries of hurling, Gaelic football and camogie. Games unique to Irish culture, in particular hurling, Gaelic football and camogie, have been…
Apothecary’s shop found in Dublin excavation
Some interesting features have come to light in excavations directed by Alan R. Hayden of Archaeological Projects Ltd on the site of a new Maldron Hotel on Dublin’s Kevin Street. The clear remains—in the form of latrine pits (one of…
Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guides:
Below is the full list of published Heritage Guides. All are available digitally via Exact Editions, some (marked Copies available) are available directly from www.wordwellbooks.com. Year Number Title County Comments 2017 76 Bective Abbey Co Meath Copies available 2016 75…
The archaeology of 1916
Franc Myles describes an above-ground archaeological project on North King Street. The ‘Archaeology of 1916’ project arose from a conversation held after an Archaeology Ireland AGM between the writer and Prof. Gabriel Cooney of UCD’s School of Archaeology. The concept,…
Peter Woodman—an Obituary
ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO PUT THE IRISH MESOLITHIC ON THE MAP Peter Charles Woodman: 2 July 1943–24 January 2017 I met Peter in 1966 when his friend Paddy Shannon took me to meet him in the company of Richard Warner in a…
Can you show the archaeology of Ireland in one map?
Richard Clutterbuck examines techniques for expressing monument distribution. The island of Ireland contains over 152,000 recorded archaeological monuments. That is a lot of archaeology, and it is difficult to visualise how it is distributed around the country. One way for…