A survey of Old Rahoon graveyard was undertaken by Eachtra Archaeological Projects on behalf of the Heritage Office of Galway City Council. The grave memorials were planned, photographed and recorded.

The full results of the survey is available on http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/old-rahoon/ga-odra.

A leaflet was produced and designed for visitors to the graveyard and it is downloadable here in PDF format.

Archaeological Excavation Report

Nineteenth century burials

Human remains were recorded during archaeological monitoring of a watermains trench in the middle of the road at the junction between the Athenry Road and the Dublin Road Housing Estate The works were associated with the Tuam Town Water Supply Scheme in early 2012. The remains of 48 individuals were recorded and excavated along with a section of the boundary wall and internal ditch of Tuam Union Workhouse. The burials were originally located within the bounds of Tuam Poor Law Union Workhouse which had opened to admissions in 1846. Eighteen grave pits were identified, with each containing between two and four burials. The individuals buried within these grave pits were paupers.

Authors: Finn Delaney, Jacinta Kiely and Linda Lynch

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Archaeological Excavation Report

Early medieval graveyard and enclosure

Following the discovery of human remains during archaeological monitoring of engineering trial pits in Sawpit Lane a 1 m wide trench was excavated along Sawpit Lane, Church Lane and The Mall in advance of pipelaying associated with the Tuam Town Water Supply in July 2010. The remains of 15 individuals were recorded and excavated along with a series of ditches and pits. A stone culvert and the remains of a boundary wall were also identified. Two of the skeletons and a bone fragment from the base of one of the ditches returned calibrated radiocarbon dates centring on the seventh century. In addition a smithing hearth cake typical of early iron smithing was recovered from the upper fill of the ditch along with a bone trial motif piece which has sixth/seventh century parallels. The other pits and ditches had fills containing relatively mixed finds and animal bone fragments. The excavated features are located outside the present Temple Jarlath enclosure in the middle of Tuam and close to the site of the early medieval market area and the site of the post-medieval shambles. The pits may have acted as refuse pits for waste and the ditches may have demarcated areas or being used as open drains. The early burial evidence and the early possible enclosing ditch coupled with reports of an early unclassified cross slab suggest that the graveyard and enclosure at Temple Jarlath may be associated with St Jarlath’s original early Christian foundation.

Author: Finn Delaney

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Archaeological Excavation Report

Medieval Castle

Adare Castle Co. Limerick is located on the northern bank of the Maigue River c.150m east of the bridge. A bridge is marked in this location on the Down Survey map (c. 1656). The land in the vicinity of the castle is lowlying. The ruined Franciscan Friary is located 400m to the east and the Augustinian Friary 350m to the southwest.

The modern town of Adare is located c. 600m to the south of the castle, set back from the southern bank of the river. Recent archaeological work by Sarah McCutcheon (Limerick County Council) has demonstrated that the town (LI021-032) may have existed in its current location, in proximity to the Trinitarian Abbey, as early as the 13th/14th centuries (McCutcheon pers. comm.).

The castle was strategically constructed on the east bank of the Maigue River to protect the river’s first fordable crossing point some eight miles inland from where it issues into the Shannon Estuary. A fourteen arch bridge was later built by Gerald, the fifth Earl of Kildare, between 1390 and 1410 (Lewis 1837, 8-9). During repairs to the foundations of the bridge arches in the early decades of the nineteenth century a large post or pile of an earlier wooden bridge was revealed (Dunraven, 1865, 104).

Authors: Laurence Dunne and Jacinta Kiely

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Friends of Medieval Dublin
15^th Medieval Dublin Symposium

Saturday 25 May 2013
Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037)
Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

09.30  Registration and opening remarks

Seán Duffy

09.40  The importance of women in measuring the Irishness of Viking Dublin

Patrick F. Wallace

10.30  Dublin and the Late Roman comb

Ian Riddler

11.10                 Tea & coffee

11.30  The rocky road(s) to Dublin?

Matthew Stout

12.10  What the Vikings really thought of Clontarf, and why we never heard it: a speculation

Lenore Fischer

12.50                Lunch

14.00  Farm fresh: St Mary’s abbey medieval food suppliers

Geraldine Stout

14.40  A rising tide does not lift all boats: medieval settlement in Temple Bar, Dublin

Alan Hayden

15.20                Tea & coffee

15. 40  The church lands of the medieval diocese of Dublin

Paul McCotter

16.20  Life in the big city: being at home in Viking Dublin

Rebecca Boyd

ADMISSION FREE ∙ ALL WELCOME

NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION OR BOOKING REQUIRED

For further information, contact Prof. Seán Duffy sduffy@tcd.ie or phone 01-896 5998

9th - 10th May 2013

Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Dublin

Over the past few years the extent and quality of information available from satellites, airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) and aerial photography has grown exponentially. These techniques, collectively referred to as remote sensing, have had an enormous impact on our ability to reveal past landscapes and disseminate knowledge about those landscapes. The results of this work can be both visually exciting and intellectually engaging.

This two day conference brings together a series of speakers to showcase these techniques and the uses to which they can be put. This conference will specifically explore how remotes sensing and its results can be used within the sectors of:

• Heritage management and legislation
• Education including: secondary, third level and continual development
• Community heritage and citizen science

Saturday 27 April 2013
1.00-4.30 pm
St. Finbarr’s College, Farranferris,
on the Northside of Cork city
Parking will be available at no charge

Are you or would you like to be involved in an oral history / folklore project? Do you carry out recorded interviews or plan to? Would you like to share your experiences with other practitioners and interested parties, and identify the joys and challenges of carrying out oral history in contemporary Ireland?

The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) is hosting a forum for oral history practitioners in Cork city on Saturday 27 April 2013, 1.00-4.30 pm. We would like to provide people with an opportunity to meet and connect with others active or interested in the field, and to identify the needs of individuals and groups, and training and support opportunities. The forum will take place in St. Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, on the Northside of the city. Parking will be available at no charge.

This forum is the first of four regional events planned by OHNI for 2013. It caters to those based in Munster, but all interested parties are welcome. There is no charge for attendance, but donations to OHNI are gratefully accepted. A regional training day is planned for later in 2013.

For more information visit this page: http://www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/news/munster-oral-history-forum-saturday-27-april-2013/

Institute of Archaeology of Ireland

The Pearse Hotel, 98–107 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Friday 5th and Saturday 6th April 2013

FRIDAY

10:30 - Registration Opens

▪▪▪▪ Session 1 ▪▪▪▪

11:00 - Teresa Bolger (Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd): Post-Boom Archaeology - Do we have new knowledge management issues … or just the old ones on steroids?

11:30 - John Tierney and Jacinta Kiely (Eachtra Archaeological Projects): Publication and Archaeology

12:00 - Nick Maxwell (Wordwell Books Ltd.): The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds: What, if anything, has the boom and bust done for Irish archaeological scholarship?

12:30 - Lunch (not supplied)

▪▪▪▪ Session 2 ▪▪▪▪

13:30 - Paul Rondelez (University College Cork): NRA excavation reports and massive data processing

14:00 - Dr Jessica Smyth (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol): TBC

14:30 - Keynote Address:

Brian K. Duffy (Chief Archaeologist, National Monuments Service)
15:30 - Tea/Coffee

▪▪▪▪ Session 3 ▪▪▪▪

16:00 - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

8.30pm - Table Quiz
Prize Sponsors include…
Tables of 5 = €50/£43
Proceeds go towards the JIA Post-graduate prize

SATURDAY

09:30 - Registration Opens

▪▪▪▪ Session 4 ▪▪▪▪

10:00 - James Bonsall, Dr Christopher Gaffney and Prof. Ian Armit (University of Bradford): I would walk Ten Thousand Miles: What have we learnt from Geophysical Legacy Data collected on road schemes?

10:30 - Alan Hawkes (University College Cork): Infrastructure archaeology and the origins of the burnt mound tradition: 10 years of fulachtaí fia excavations in Ireland.

11:00 - Prof. Peter Woodman (Emeritus Professor, University College Cork): THE MESOLITHIC: Did the last 25 years really change anything?

11:30 - Tea/Coffee

▪▪▪▪ Session 5 ▪▪▪▪

12:00 - Rónán Swan (National Roads Authority): Managing archaeological works on national road schemes 2001 to 2013

12:30 - Dr Charles Mount (Archaeological Consultant): The Legacy of Development-led Archaeology: the extractive industries

13:00 - Andy Halpin (National Museum of Ireland): Deposition of excavated artefacts and environmental remains in the National Museum of Ireland’s Collections Resource Centre: A lot done, more to do.
13:30 - Lunch (not supplied)

▪▪▪▪ Session 6 ▪▪▪▪

14:30 - Dr Ellen OCarroll (Independent Specialist): Charcoal and pollen research along the N6 road scheme - new research and methodological studies towards the advancement of guidelines and best practice

15:00 - James Eogan (National Roads Authority): TBC

15:30 - TBC
16:00 - Discussion / END

The 52th Consecutive Conference - 5^th - 6^{th April}, 2013

at Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Roscrea and the Irish midlands in the late twelfth and early thirteenth-centuries; celebrating the first formal record of Parliament in Ireland and the building of the castle: Roscrea 1213.

Programme:

Friday 5th April

7.45pm

The Council of Roscrea, 1213: crown, context and consequences, Dr Adrian Empey

Saturday 6th April

10.15am

The Gaelic background and reaction to the AngloNorman incursion in the SW midlands, and Roscrea in particular, in the late twelfth and early thirteenth-centuries, Dr Edel Bhreathnach, Deputy Director, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD

11.30am

An Earthen Castle at Roscrea and a Stone Castle in Nenagh c1213, Con Manning, Senior Archaeologist, Dept Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

12.15pm

Roscrea 800: commemorating 800 years of a castle at Roscrea. Its story illustrated over the centuries to the present day, George Cunningham

Sunday 7th April

12.00pm

The poets and chroniclers of the midlands in the twelfth and thirteenth-centuries, Edel Bhreathnach

12.30pm

The crosslands of medieval Tipperary, Adrian Empey

Part attendance at the conference is possible or attendance at just one lecture is possible for a nominal fee.

Roscrea Heritage Society

invites you to celebrate

Roscrea 800

800 years of Roscrea Castle: 1213 - 2013

and commemorating the first recorded instance of

Parliament in Ireland as happened at Roscrea in 1213.

Thursday 4th April – Sunday 7th April 2013

Programme

Thursday 4th April

in Damer Annex at 8.15pm

George Cunningham, 800 years of Roscrea Castle, from 1213 to 2013.  An illustrated presentation, Free Entry

Saturday 6th April

in Damer Annex at 11.00am

Chess in Action, Directed by Paud O’Reilly. Free Entry

Saturday Afternoon

Guided inside tours of the Castle, by Con Manning, Senior Archaeologist, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Free Entry

2.45- 4.00 pm

Traditional Irish Music with CCE Roscrea. Free Entry

4.00 – 4.25pm at Damer Annex

Talk by Ger Dooley, MA

Ernie O’Malley’s interview with Ned Quinlan, Leader of the Roscrea IRA Brigade

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