Eachtra Archaeological Projects

12/07/2023

As a result of Irish diaspora ca. 70 million people worldwide claim some Irish descent, maintaining a vivid connection with Irish cultural identity & heritage. The online project historicgraves.com performs participatory field surveys of historic graveyards and published online 800 cemeteries, recor...

20/03/2023

For any of Jacinta & Choryna's former colleagues/workmates their father Jim Kiely passed away peacefully yesterday (March 19th 2023). Details https://rip.ie/death-notice/jim-kiely-fermoy-cork/529860

He was a lovely man and as a former soil scientist always had something worthwhile to say on any problem soils we presented him with.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé!

Kyrick, New Barrack Road, Fermoy, Cork / Clashmore, Waterford

03/06/2020

14/05/2020

Super bit of fieldwork and research by the NMS.

17/04/2020

Backyard archaeology in West Waterford during the Covid19 lockdown.

' Confined to barracks', as my dad says, about the April 2020 Covid-19 lockdown and digging a trench to edge a path I noticed what looked like archaeological...

29/07/2019

Robert Chapple talking sense again.

I am very lucky. I have cancer. These are two sentences that on first analysis don’t fit particularly well together. At least, until ...

26/07/2019

Bad practice. Bad science. Bad show by the authors.
We use the online database built by Robert M Chapple a couple of times a year and it is a pleasure to use. Partic like the map-based search.

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that a little while back I got into a tussle with a number of senior staff members at Univers...

30/04/2019

https://boynevalleytombs.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/re-discovering-the-lost-records-of-the-newgrange-roof-box/amp/

Ken Williams The view through the roof-box slit after sunrise on the Winter Solstice. The elaborate structure above and behind the entrance to Newgrange, which the excavator, Professor M.J. O& #8217…

27/04/2019

26/04/2019

Hours of lectures from last year by Professor John Collis on the archaeology of the Celts.

Název: Celts, ancient and modern Přednášející: Prof. John Collis Typ akce: přednáška Datum: podzim 2018 Title: Celts, ancient and modern Presenter: Prof. John Collis Event type: lecture Date: autumn 2018

14/03/2019

Stones and Bones lecture - Open to all. Title: Staad, Co. Sligo: A good place is a good place is a good place!
Presented by Dr Fiona Beglane

25th March at 7pm in room C1006

Staad Abbey in Co. Sligo is a ruined medieval church that stands close to a low sea cliff, which is being rapidly eroded by storm surges. Excavations in the past have shown that activity there dated to the early, later and post-medieval periods. We know that Staad was the embarkation point for pilgrims visiting the holy island of Inishmurray and it has also been linked to the stories of the Spanish Armada ships at Streedagh. From February 2015 movement of beach cobbles gradually revealed a layer of preserved peat and in May 2017, after a prolonged dry spell that caused the peat to dry and shrink, wooden stakes were identified embedded in the peat. IT Sligo students and staff carried out a rescue excavation on these and this talk will present the results. Excitingly, these included an Early Bronze Age wooden trackway or platform as well as a series of Middle Bronze Age wooden stakes. An extensive environmental analysis of the peat deposits is currently underway, but preliminary results of this will also be presented.