Ireland Europe Regional Archaeology

The investigation of past cultures of the modern nationstate of Ireland through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).

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• - Contains summary accounts of all the archaeological excavations carried out in Ireland - North and South - from 1970 to 2000. It can be browsed or searched using multiple fields.
  
• - The Heritage Service for Ireland. Key datasets on heritage and conservation in GIS and database formats for download by all.
  
• - Brief introduction to Ireland's Dingle Peninsula with photos.
  
• - Aims to provide a forum for discussion and to facilitate and present new research and projects relating to archaeology and other subjects. Documents, databases and links.
  
• - A collection of approximately 20,000 negatives and photographs documenting early Christian Irish art. Currently only a description but will later include a database and scanned copies of the archive.
  
• - Outline of the excavations of a megalithic cemetery in County Sligo, from 1977 by Professor Göran Burenhult, which has produced remarkably early radiocarbon dates.
  
• - The excavation revealed a succession of activity dating back to 1200 CE. An introduction.
  
• - National University College Dublin aims to create a database of all known Irish stone axes. Outline, personnel and publications. Abstracts and maps on-line.
  
• - A guide from the National Tourism Service to Ireland's wealth of prehistoric monuments. Descriptions of each type with photographs and details of examples.
  
• - Includes: features, artefacts, environmental remains, recent work, and an introduction to the site excavated in 1998.
  
• - History of Irish coinage from earliest times to the present day.
  
• - From Belfast Telegraph, the Republic's largest Neolithic settlement dating back 5,000 years has been uncovered on a remote mountain, more than 100 years after the site was first mapped by archaeologists.
  
• - Spearhead reports that archaeologists Warner and Munnelly challenge the theory of distinct Celtic ethnicity and claim that most Irish are pre-Celtic.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for all aspects of settlement in Ireland from earliest times to present. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for the archaeology of Iron Age Ireland and related topics. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for the archaeology of Ireland of all periods. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - Dedicated to the Irish Round Tower. Attempting to catalog, photographically and factually the round towers of the island.
  
• - Abstract of a report by Seamus Caulfield et al of the dating of a Neolithic field system at Céide Fields, County Mayo.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for the academic study of the archaeology of Ireland during the bronze age. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - B.J. Hodkinson's report on the archaeological investigation of the medieval castle of Dunamase in County Laois.
  
• - A comprehensive Gazetteer and Field Guide to Megalithic Ireland, with clickable county map and hundreds of listed sites and high quality photos taken (over the whole island) over a period of 30 years.
  
• - Photographs and a brief history of each scene by J.M. Abbott. Examples of a holy well, crannog, burial mound, ring-fort, carved stones and monoliths.
  
• - Thaddeus C. Breen's organized list of links with helpful descriptions of sites.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for the archaeology and history of Ireland, c.400-1200 CE. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - An illustrated introduction to Irish archaeology by Michael Sundermeier, of Creighton University, Oregon, US.
  
• - An easy-to-follow introduction to some of the many types of archaeological monuments which can be seen in Ireland, with bibliography.
  
• - Moderated discussion group for the academic study of the archaeology of Ireland during the Stone Age. Part of the Irish Archaeology and History Mailinglist Suite.
  
• - A meeting of the European Parliament's Petitions Committee has agreed to a call from De Rossa, Labour MEP for Dublin, that the Committee send a delegation to visit the Carrickmines archaeological site which is about to be destroyed by a new section of the
  
• - Association for Environmental Archaeology Annual Symposium 2003 to be held at the School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology of Queens University in Belfast on 24-26 April 2003.
  
• - From BBC, archaeologists give details of what is said to be the most important discovery of 17th Century artefacts ever made in Belfast.
  
  

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