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 and aerial survey, test excavation and more detailed excavation at some sites, was followed. The study area is situated on the Cork/Limerick county border and adjacent areas of west Tipperary, and contains three distinct landscape regions.