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The Medieval Rural Settlement Project

Creator: The Discovery Programme

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 cultural landscape that is embodied in later medieval Ireland.

The online content comprises images taken from publications of The Medieval Rural Settlement Project:
Margaret Murphy and Michael Potterton, The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: settlement, land-use and economy (Dublin, 2010)
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The North Munster Project

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…

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The Ballyhoura Hills Project

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…

Items in the The Medieval Rural Settlement Project Collection

Millstone unearthed at Trim, Co. Meath.

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Aerial photograph showing Danestown ringwork (north) and church (south). Faint earthworks can be made out in the fields surrounding the monuments.

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Plough pebble from Brownstown, Co. Dublin.

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Taghadoe Church and round tower, Co. Kildare, 2009. This church was erected with a grant from the Board of First Fruits in 1831.

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