Below is the full list of published Heritage Guides. All are available digitally via Exact Editions, some are available directly from our office at +353-1-2933568 or from www.wordwellbooks.com.
Year | No | Title | County (s) | Subject |
1998 | 1 | The Doon of Drumsna: An Iron Age frontier fortification in Connacht | Leitrim | Iron Age frontier fortification |
1998 | 2 | Maghadhair | Clare | Royal Inauguration Site |
1999 | 3 | Telltown | Meath | An ancient assemby site in County Meath |
1999 | 4 | The Beltany Stone Circle | Donegal | A ‘Celtic’ ritual site in Cunty Donegal |
1999 | 5 | St. Mullins | Carlow | An early ecclesiastical site and medieval settlement in County Carlow |
1999 | 6 | Lackeen | Tipperary | A late medieval and later settlement in Tipperary North Riding |
2000 | 7 | Clough Oughter | Cavan | A medieval island castle in County Cavan |
2000 | 8 | Newgrange Co. Meath | Meath | Neolithic religion and the midwinter sunrise |
2000 | 9 | Glanworth: A medieval castle, friary and town in County Cork | Cork | A medieval castle, friary and town in County Cork |
2000 | 10 | The Paps of Anu, Co Kerry | Kerry | Two sacred mountains in County Kerry |
2001 | 11 | The Clonmacnoise Bridge: An early medieval river crossing in County Offaly | Offaly | An early medieval river crossing in County Offaly |
2001 | 12 | Loughcrew Co. Meath | Meath | Neolithic passage tomb complex |
2001 | 13 | The Stone circle at Castleruddery Lower: | Wicklow | A prehistoric ceremonial enclosure in South-west Wicklow |
2001 | 14 | The Powder Tower, Dublin Castle: | Dublin | The history of the castle and excavations |
2002 | 15 | The Cooley Peninsula: | Louth | An archaeological landscape in County Louth |
2002 | 16 | Dalkey Island: An island on the tides of time | Dublin DLRCC | Multi period and multi site landscape Mesolithic – 19th Century |
2002 | 17 | Derrynablaha: Valley of the rings in Co. Kerry | Kerry | Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Rock Art |
2002 | 18 | Inishmurray: Co Sligo | Sligo | Early Christian monastic island |
2003 | 19 | Bantry Bay | Cork | A fortified landscape in west Cork |
2003 | 20 | Strangford Lough | Down | Maritime archaeology on the County Down coast |
2003 | 21 | Ireland in the Iron Age | Various | Map of Ireland by Claudius Ptolemaeus c. AD 150 |
2003 | 22 | Owenagyatt | Roscommon | Cave ‘Entrance ot the Otherworld’ in County Roscommon |
2004 | 23 | The Medieval town walls of Drogheda | Louth | Depictions of the medieval town walls of Drogheda |
2004 | 24 | Illaunloughan Island | Kerry | An early medieval monastic site in county Kerry |
2004 | 25 | Fethard Castle County Wexford | Wexford | Manorial centre and episcopal residence |
2004 | 26 | The Duncannon Wreck | Waterford | A seventeenth century ship in Waterford Harbour |
2005 | 27 | Knockainy Hil | Limerick | A ceremonial landscape in County Limerick |
2005 | 28 | Medieval Fore | Westmeath | Early Christian and medieval landscape |
2005 | 29 | Mount Brandon | Kerry | Dingle’s holy mountain |
2005 | 30 | Fourknocks Co. Meath: | Meath | Neolithic passage tombs – Rock Art |
2006 | 31 | The Curragh Co. Kildare | Kildare | The archaeology of an ancient grassland |
2006 | 32 | Medieval walls of Kilkenny City | Kilkenny | Building and managing the medieval defences |
2006 | 33 | Medieval Dalkey in the 1760s | Dublin DLRCC | The development of Dalkey |
2006 | 34 | The Mound of the Hostages, Tara Co Meath | Meath | A pivotal monument in a ceremonial landscape |
2007 | 35 | Kingship and sacrifice | Various | Iron Age bog bodies and boundaries |
2007 | 36 | Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim | Antrim | A walled town in the seventeenth century |
2007 | 37 | Faughart, Co. Louth: The hill of heroes, saints, battles and boundaries | Louth | Multi period landscape including St Brigid’s holy well and ‘bed’ |
2007 | 38 | The other monasticism: Killone nunnery, Co. Clare | Clare | Nunneries and the female monastic tradition |
2008 | 39 | The Bremore promontory: | Dublin Fingal | Archaeology of a prominent headland in Fingal |
2008 | 40 | Navan Fort | Armagh | Legendary capital of prehistoric Ulster |
2008 | 41 | Tara, Co Meath | Meath | A guide to the ceremonial complex |
2008 | 42 | Shipwrecks on the east coast of Ireland | Louth / Meath /Dublin and Wicklow | Shipwrecks on the east coast of Ireland |
2009 | 43 | St Nicholas Church, Carrickfergus Co. Antrim, The War Memorial and bell-tower | Antrim | St Nicholas Church, The War Memorial and bell-tower |
2009 | 44 | Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon: | Roscommon | Where the Táin Bó Cúailnge began |
2009 | 46 | Clare Island, Co. Mayo: The Abbey and its paintings | Mayo | The Abbey and its paintings |
2009 | 47 | Trim in the Middle Ages | Meath | A market town on the River Boyne |
2010 | 48 | The Grianan of Aileach Co. Donegal | Donegal | The Stone Fort of Grianán of Aileach is an important site in Irish mythology, to the Tuatha de Danann |
2010 | 49 | The Burren in Prehistory | Clare | The Burren in Prehistory |
2010 | 50 | Corlea Trackway, County Longford | Longford | Iron Age roads in the Co. Longford peatlands |
2010 | 51 | Rathgal Co. Wicklow | Wicklow | Middle to late Broze Age Hillfort |
2011 | 52 | Plantation -era castellated houses | Various | Plantation -era castellated houses |
2011 | 53 | Knockroe: the prehistory of a valley near Slievenamon | Kilkenny | Passage Tombs with solistical alignments and Rock art |
2011 | 54 | Aghowle Church, Co. Wicklow | Wicklow | 12th cenutry church and crosses |
2011 | 55 | Hill of Slane | Meath | Complex of prehistoric, early medieval and medieval monuments |
2012 | 56 | The Burren, Co Clare | Clare | A guide to the medieval landscape |
2012 | 57 | The megalithic tombs of south Dublin | Dublon South Dublin CC | The megalithic tombs of south Dublin |
2012 | 58 | Large stone forts of the Aran Islands | Galway | The Forts of the Aran Islands |
2012 | 59 | Ferns, Co. Wexford | Wexford | Remains of 13th Century cathedral, several high crosses, St Mary’s Abbey, St Peter’s Church, St Mogue’s Well and early 13th century castle. |
2013 | 60 | The medieval town of Athenry | Galway | The medieval town of Athenry, County Galway |
2013 | 61 | Tully Church, Laughanstown | Dublin DLRCC | Pre Norman Church, two high crosses and three Rathdown Slabs |
2013 | 62 | Parke’s Castle | Leitrim | Parke’s Castle is a plantation era castle situated on the banks of Lough Gill, in County Leitrim |
2013 | 63 | Hill of Ward | Meath | A Samhain site n County Meath |
2014 | 64 | The Rock Art of Carlow | Carlow | The Rock Art of Carlow |
2014 | 65 | Kilkenny | Kilkenny | Highlights of a medieval city |
2014 | 66 | Kells Priory, County Kilkenny | Kilkenny | A defended monastery in Co Kilkenny |
2014 | 67 | Visiting Newgrange | Meath | Science, ritual and curiosity |
2015 | 68 | The Black Pig’s Dyke | Various | Linear earthworks |
2015 | 69 | The route of the Táin Bó Cúailnge in County Louth | Louth | The route of the Táin Bó Cúailnge in County Louth |
2015 | 70 | The Cistercian Abbey of Boyle, Co Roscommon | Roscommon | The Cistercian Abbey of Boyle, Co Roscommon |
2015 | 71 | Monasterboice | Louth | |
2016 | 72 | Glendalough and its churches, Co Wicklow | Wicklow | Glendalough and its churches, Co Wicklow |
2016 | 73 | Where Ferdia fell: Ardee, Co Louth | Louth | The town of Ardee, Co Louth |
2016 | 74 | Doe Castle, Co Donegal | Donegal | Fortified, Gaelic tower house on the shores of Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal |
2016 | 75 | The Route of the Tain Bo Cuailnge in Co Roscommon, and Longford | Roscommon | The Route of the Tain Bo Cuailnge in Co Roscommon, and Longford |
2017 | 76 | Bective Abbey, Co Meath | Meath | First daughter house of the Cistercian abbey of Mellifont, Co Louth, founded in 1147 |
2017 | 77 | Swords Castle | Fingal | Medieval episcopal residence, later 12th century |
2017 | 78 | The Spanish Armada Wrecks, Streedagh Co Sligo | Sligo | The Spanish Armada Wrecks, Streedagh Co Sligo |
2017 | 78 | Neolithic Cœil Irra, Knocknrea/Carrowmore/Carns Hill | Sligo | Neolithic Cœil Irra, Knocknrea/Carrowmore/Carns Hill Co Sligo |
2018 | 80 | Ormonde Castle: Ireland’s Tudor Rose | Tipperary | Ormond Castle is the best example of an Elizabethan manor house in Ireland. |
2018 | 81 | Vinegar Hill, Co Wexford | Wexford | The site of the last stand of the Wexford rebels of 1798 |
2018 | 82 | Solar Alignment and the Irish Passage tomb tradition | Multiple | |
2018 | 83 | Teach Mo Chua, Timahoe County Laois – | Laoise | An early ecclesiastical site at Timahoe, Co Laois |
2019 | 84 | Carlingford Friary | Louth | 14th century Dominican Priory dedicate to St Malachy |
2019 | 85 | The Heath, Co Laoise | Laoise | Focus on the concentration of well-preserved ring-barrows (funerary monumetns dating to the early Bronze Age itot the Iron Age) |
2019 | 86 | The Route of the Tain Bo Cuailnge in Counties Westmeath and Meath | Westmeath and Meath | The Route of the Tain Bo Cuailnge in Counties Westmeath and Meath |
2019 | 87 | Sligo: a historic urban centre on the Atlantic Coast | Sligo | A history of the development of Sligo town which began as a 13th Anglo-Norman manorial settlement |
2020 | 88 | Athlone Castle | Westmeath | 13th century King John’s Castle and later history |
2020 | 89 | Castledermot | Kildare | Castledermot archaeological and historical heritage |
2020 | 90 | Black Friary, Trim, Co. Meath | Meath | A guide to the excavations at the medieval Dominican friary |
2020 | 91 | Nenagh Castle, Co. Tipperary | Tipperary | A guide to the Castle |
2021 | 92 | Glendalough: the Upper Lake | Wicklow | The monastic archaeology at the Upper Lake |
2021 | 93 | Tullaghoge, Co. Tyrone | Tyrone | The inauguration place of the Ó Néill rulers of Tír Eoghain |
2021 | 94 | Temple-na-Skellig and St Kevin’s Bed, Glendalough | Wicklow | Monastic Glendalough. |
2021 | 95 | The Hill of the O’Neill, County Tyrone | Tyrone | The history and archaeology of Castle Hill, Co. Tyrone |
2022 | 96 | Medieval Navan and its environs | Meath | The walled town of Navan, Co. Meath |
2022 | 97 | The prehistoric archaeology of Lough Gur , Co. Limerick | Limerick | Prehistoric archaeology at Lough Gur |
2022 | 98 | The archaeology of historic Lough Gur , Co. Limerick | Limerick | Archaeology at Lough Gur |
2022 | 99 | Wicklow Town | Wicklow | The Archaeology of Wicklow town |
2023 | 100 | DÚN AILINNE | Kildare | A centre for large-scale ritual and ceremony in County Kildare |
2023 | 101 | Cahir Town | Tipperary | A major thoroughfare in prehistoric and early historic times. |
2023 | 102 | ST FINIAN’S LUCAN, CO. DUBLIN | Dublin | Medieval Church and Graveyard |
2023 | 103 | UISNEACH, CO. WESTMEATH | Westmeath | The Hill of Uisneach, one of Ireland’s most evocative ceremonial and assembly landscapes, |
2024 | 104 | The archaeology of revolution in East Limerick | Limerick | This Heritage Guide describes a selection of sites in and around the area in which the East Limerick Brigade of the IRA was active |
2024 | 105 | The built heritage of Lough Erne | Fermanagh | The guide presents an overview of the diverse nature of this resource, stretching from prehistoric times through to the twentieth century. |
2024 | 106 | Archaeological discoveries at Ticknick Park, Co. Dublin | Dublin DLRCC | Archaeological excavations have shown that Ticknick and Laughanstown in County Dublin have been home to generations of people for at least 5,000 years. |
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