Castle Ballintober, Roscommon, Ireland: Nothing but Tractors and Cows

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Late Medieval colonization of Ireland by the Anglo Normans was characterized by the imposition of English infrastructures upon the Gaelic Irish landscape. Indeed, our work beyond the Pale at Ballintober Castle, County Roscommon, sees a shift from the seasonally pastoral nature of Irish life to a more rigid lifestyle dominated by the structures of “boom-town” villages, massive walled construction projects, and the wheat harvest. But we also see that these people moving into Ireland with their accompanying infrastructures were reverse integrated into an Irish way of life, thereby shifting the colonial narrative from unidirectional acculturation to a negotiated assimilation. Recent research from the Castles in Communities Archaeological Settlement Survey (CIC-ASS) will be covered, as new data emerge from both Ballintober Castle and its adjacent deserted medieval settlement.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37621.0