The Ballyhoura Hills Project was initiated in 1992, under the directorship of Martin Doody, to research some of the principal questions of the Discovery Programme in a confined but diverse geographical area, which was roughly centred on the Ballyhoura Hills, a series of steep hills at Seafin. A broad research strategy, combining extensive ground…
See collection >The Medieval Rural Settlement Project commenced in 2002 to consider the nature of the archaeological landscape associated with rural Ireland in the period c. 1100-1650 AD. The Project has four principal modules, each of which will result in a significant monograph publication. The modules were chosen to represent a cross-section of the diverse…
See collection >The main focus of the North Munster Research Project was, using the known archaeological record as a foundation, to achieve a detailed view of the processes and changes involved within later prehistory (The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, c.1000BC-100BC). This landscape study draws on a wider time frame spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the end…
See collection >Lough Kinale formed one module of the Discovery Programme's Lake Settlement Project. The study examined the archaeology of Lough Kinale from the Mesolithic to the present. Lake archaeology is an under-studied aspect of Irish archaeology and this book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of that topic.
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Images from the Lake Settlement Project's Lough Kinale: Studies of an Irish Lake publication.
See collection >The Western Stone Forts Project was initiated to study a distinctive group of large stone forts located along the western seaboard of Ireland. The majority of these forts are concentrated on the Aran Islands County Galway, in the Burren Co. Clare and on the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas Co. Kerry. Excavations associated with the project were…
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