Heritage Week 2021 Project and Events

In light of the ongoing public health restrictions, TII's 2021 contribution to National Heritage Week will again focus on sharing some of the results of TII's work virtually, working with different partners including local authorities, local museums, and archaeological companies. 

For this year’s Heritage Week a selection of videos, story maps and webinars will be made available including: 

Videos 

  • N16 Lugatober (Drumkilsellagh to Lugnagall) Road Project: AMS have released the latest of their videos Monuments for the Dead on the AMS YouTube channel. 

  • Archaeology of the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge: Roscommon County Council have recently launched a series of videos by AMS on the RCC YouTube channel on the archaeological works on the N5 scheme.

  • N26 Cloongullaun Bridge Realignment Scheme: Bruce Sutton of Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd presents the results of excavation work at Cloongullaun and Pollsharvogue in County Mayo. The video can be viewed on the Rubicon Heritage YouTube channel.

Story Maps 

  • N5 Ballaghaderreen–Scramoge Story Map,  With archaeological works recently completed on the N5 Ballaghaderreen–Scramoge scheme, this innovative Story Map by AMS provides an insight into the many archaeological discoveries along the scheme, combining maps, videos and drone footage. The Story Map will go live on the AMS and Rathcroghan Visitor Centre Facebook pages during Heritage Week.

  • Past lifeways in the Irish Midlands: the archaeology of the N52 Cloghan to Billistown Road Improvement Scheme in County Westmeath is a collaborative StoryMap produced by ACSU Ltd, with contributions from IAC Ltd, Colm Flynn Archaeology, and the University College Dublin Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture. It presents the results of archaeological works undertaken on Phases 1 and 2 of the N52 Cloghan to Billistown Road Improvement Scheme. By combining results from the excavations and post-excavation analysis undertaken by three archaeological companies it presents all of these findings together for the first time.

Webinars 

  • James McKee of AMS will deliver a lecture on the recently completed excavations on the N16 Lugatober Road Project and will focus on two of the most spectacular discoveries: an Iron Age hilltop palisaded enclosure and a possible early Neolithic house in the townlands of Castlegal and Lugatober, Co Sligo. The lecture is entitled At the Foot of the Mountain: archaeological discoveries on the N16 Road Project, Co. Sligo and is now available on the AMS YouTube channel.

  • Bryn Coldrick of AMS will deliver a talk on Civil War graffiti identified at the N67 Mountrivers Bridge, Doonbeg, Co. Clare, which will be made available online via the Clare County Museum website and the AMS YouTube channel.

  • Graham Hull of TVAS (Ireland) Ltd will deliver a lecture to the Mallow Historical and Archaeological Society at 7:45 pm on Tuesday 17 August entitled 'Rituals, Burials, Cereals and Industrials: archaeological excavation at Clenor South, Annakisha, Mallow'. The talk relates to archaeological discoveries on the N73 Annakisha Realignment Scheme and will be delivered via Zoom (Meeting ID: 843 6588 0280, Passcode: 368117).

  • Cathy Moore will deliver a short lecture to mark the publication of Between the Meadows: the archaeology of Edercloon on the Dromod–Roosky Bypass, the latest book in the TII Heritage series. The lecture premieres on the TII YouTube channel on Thursday 19 August at 8:00 pm. A low resolution PDF version of the book is freely accessible on the TII website and the book can be purchased online via Wordwell Books.

This webpage will be updated as the details of these and other events and projects are finalised.

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(Updated 20 August 2021)