Connacht (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Gendering herding: an ethnoarchaeology of transhumant settlements in the west of Ireland (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugene M Costello.

In much of Ireland, from early medieval times up to the 19th century, it was common practice to take livestock - cattle especially - up to the hills and mountains for the summer. This was a small-scale transhumance known as booleying, and involved the relocation of a minority of people with livestock to the upland areas. Here they lived in summer (booley) huts and tended to milch cows. The remains of these structures are now the best archaeological evidence of the practice ever taking place....

Guide to the Irish National Heritage Park (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Culleton.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Guidelines for future development of the Irish National Heritage Park. Unpublished ms (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Culleton.

"Hidden In Plain Sight"- The Survival Of Domestic Architecture In Dublin (1660-1714) - Identification, Characteristics and Repair. (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret P Keane. Nicola Matthews. Marc Ritchie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper charts the historical background in the period from the Restoration of King Charles II to the death of Queen Anne as a brief context for these houses. We describe the main features of these timber-framed structures and on how their characteristic plan forms and features can be understood. We...

A house transformed, culture and architecture in early modern Offaly (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James I. Lyttleton.

The degree to which cultural, economic and social change in early modern Ireland was inspired by English colonial models can be questioned, though it is undeniable that material practices were evolving among the native and planter communities under the influence of capitalism, humanism and religious change. Such processes impacted upon both vernacular and formal architecture, with changes in the materials, forms, and layouts of buildings marking the degree to which people of different cultural...

Identifying Foodways In Early Modern Ireland Using A Multi-isotope Approach (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice K Rose. Janet Montgomery. Darren R Gröcke. Susan M Flavin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary results of isotopic analysis of early modern individuals excavated from archaeological sites in Ireland, generated as part of the FoodCult project. A variety of populations from across Ireland are represented, allowing for discussions regarding the social and cultural meaning of food...

In small things remembered; the sponge decorated ceramics from Inishark, Galway. (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Franc Myles.

In recent years excavators along the western seaboard of Ireland and Scotland have recovered extensive evidence on domestic sites for the presence of Spongewares and other mass-produced ceramics dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The recovery of this material has opened the debate on the ‘marginal’ nature of such landscapes which has fostered divergent theoretical approaches questioning consumer choices in post-Famine Ireland at odds with received subaltern narratives of...

Investigating Diet And Foodways In Post-medieval Ireland Using Organic Residue Analysis (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Dunne. Susan Flavin. Ellen O'Carroll. Richard Evershed.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Organic residue analysis is commonly used to investigate prehistoric vessels to determine diet and animal management strategies worldwide. The technique allows the differentiation between various foodstuffs, including non-ruminant and ruminant carcass fats, dairy, aquatic and plant products. However, it is less...

Irish flint arrow and spearheads (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W J Knowles.

The Irish National Heritage Park feasibility study. Marketing consultants' unpublished report (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Coopers. Lybrand.

Knowth Stage 8 Fauna Dataset (2010)

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Knowth Stage 8 Fauna Dataset

La Juliana 1588 – Recent investigation by the Underwater Archaeology Unit, National Monuments Service at the site of one of the 1588 Spanish Armada shipwrecks. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie Kelleher. Fionnbarr Moore. Karl Brady.

Following recent extreme weather events, one of the three Spanish Armada ships lost off the Sligo coast in Ireland in 1588 has again been revealed. The remains of La Juliana, the only Catalan ship of the three, is currently exposed. The State Underwater Archaeology Unit of the National Monuments Service (NMS) has been carrying out detailed recording, excavation and recovery of material throughout the summer to map the current site and protect vulnerable artefacts lying on the seabed. Several...

Landscapes of desire: parks, colonialism and identity in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanna Brück.

This paper will examine Ireland’s Victorian and Edwardian parks as a politicised nexus of encounter in which landscape design, architectural style and social practice combined to create class, gender and colonial identities. Public spaces form a crucial element of the urban landscape, providing a context for particular forms of political engagement and identity construction. In Ireland, such landscapes created regulated spaces of display and consumption in which the natural world and the urban...

Mantelpieces and the Homemaking: Exploring memory through the small and ordinary, 20th century, Ireland (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt. William Donaruma.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To a 20th century Irish islander, mundane objects on the mantelpiece above the fireplace are not just humdrum keepsakes, economic tools, common items, or assets; rather these objects provided a point of entry into the emotional landscape of memory, identity, and belonging in the Irish home. The...

The manufacturing technology of the Irish Bronze Age Horns (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P Holmes.

Materiality of Homemaking: Dressers, Delph, and Heirlooms in western Ireland (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith S Chesson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What can everyday Irish dressers and delph tell us about family history, rural life, and global connections? As part of the multiyear Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project, I have researched dressers and their contents, including curated ceramic and glass vessels and other objects, to conduct...

Materiality, Identity & Culture: A New Narrative of Irish Food History (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel S Tracey. Meriel McClatchie. Ellen O'Carroll. Susan Flavin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. FoodCult is a dynamic interdisciplinary research initiative that explores diet and foodways in early modern Ireland. Drawing from FoodCult’s ground-breaking database of comparative archaeological evidence throughout the island of Ireland, this paper will showcase elements of the fundamentals of...

Meat And Dairy In The Diet Of Early Modern Ireland (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fiona Beglane.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will examine the consumption of meat and dairy products in early modern Ireland from a zooarchaeological perspective. It will present preliminary results from the interdisciplinary FoodCult project, which is exploring the diet and foodways of diverse communities in early modern Ireland. Meat has always...

Microlith to Macrolith: the reasons behind the transformation of production in the Irish Mesolithic (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Farina Sternke. L J Costa. P C Woodman.

More or less improved? Contrasting rural settlement in Ireland and Highland Scotland (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugene M Costello.

This paper compares the experiences of non-elite communities in Ireland and Highland Scotland, c.1700-1850. Culturally and environmentally, Ireland and (Highland) Scotland are seen to share a number of traits. Irish and Scottish Gaelic are very closed related and were spoken almost universally in rural areas up to the 19th century. Furthermore, much of the west of Ireland is characterised by expanses of peaty upland, which resembles the Highland landscape. Their settlement histories begin to...

A Neolithic pottery revisited (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D O'Dulaing.

A New Survey of Plant Foods in Post-medieval Ireland: Evidence from Archaeobotany (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meriel McClatchie. Susan Flavin. Ellen O Carroll. Rachel Tracey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will explore the nature and meaning of foodways in post-medieval Ireland, based upon a new survey of archaeobotanical remains from more than 50 excavations across the island. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period of increasingly globalised trade when new foods arrived in Ireland, some of...

The origin and role of the Irish National Heritage Park (1999)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Culleton.

Pirates and Prostitutes - Seeking the invisible: Identifying the cultural footprint for illicit activity in early 17th-century Ireland (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie Kelleher.

The North Atlantic headquarters of the ‘Confederacy of Deep-Sea Pirates’ was located along the southwest coast of Ireland. Here pirates lived and traded with native Irish, government officials and English settlers under the Munster Plantation. Many of the pirates’ families lived locally and ran legitimate businesses ashore. Prostitutes also operated within this remote landscape where the lines between legal and illicit were constantly blurred. Contemporary historical documents inform on these...

Pirates, Pepper and Prostitutes – illicit trade in goods and pleasure in 17th-century West Cork. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie Kelleher.

The southern coast of Ireland in the early-17th century enjoyed a booming trade in exotic goods like pepper, cinnamon and other spices. This was underscored by an even brisker trade in pleasures of the flesh where the women in the pirates’ lives ran successful businesses of their own, providing safe houses, taverns, inns and brothels that tapped into the business of plunder. This was a time and place when illicit activity was the norm, when ships bringing plundered goods operated openly and...