The Medieval Rural Settlement Project

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…


The gatehouse and castle at Rathcoffey, Co. Kildare, are set within large open fields that have been producing arable crops most years for the best part of a thousand years.

Ersteller: The Discovery Programme

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Just out of view to the right is a ringfort, but the focus of settlement appears to have moved to the crest of the hill, where the Wogan family built a castle in the early fourteenth century.


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