Author: Colm
Facing the past. An anthropomorphic Bronze Age pot from Cork
An exceptional collection of Bronze Age artefacts was recently found near Mitchelstown in County Cork (Kiely & Sutton 2007)….
Dublin’s lost buildings: The Dutch Billy
Strolling through some of Dublin streets at the begining of the 18th century, an English visitor to the city…
A lecture on George Petrie, ‘The father of Irish archaeology’
To celebrate the opening of a new exhibition at the National Library, entitled ‘Particles of the Past’, Peter Murray…
The Big Dig
Preliminary plans for a very interesting project have just been unveiled for the Irish National Heritage Park, in Co. Wexford….
The Cistercian monastery at Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway
I recently visited Abbeyknockmoy Abbey in Co. Galway, which must be one of the most impressive Cistercian monasteries in Ireland….
Newgrange and the Winter Solstice
The passage tomb at Newgrange is probably Ireland’s most iconic archaeological site and it is indelibly linked with the winter…
Moated sites; defended homesteads of the 13th and 14th centuries
Moated sites are rectangular shaped enclosures that are primarily associated with the 13th and 14th century Anglo-Norman colonisation of…
Roman contacts with Ireland
That Ireland was reasonably well known in the classical world is demonstrated by Ptolemy’s Geography. This is a list of…
IAI Autumn Conference
Just a quick heads up about The Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland’s autumn conference, which takes place next weekend…
Mystery stone object
A reader of the blog has sent me two images of a puzzling object they recently found along the Boyne…
