Heritage Week 2023 Projects and Events

The "Excavations on the Iveragh Peninsula - The Archaeology of the N70 Brackaharagh Road Improvement Scheme"Story Map  which describes the archaeological works undertaken by AMS on behalf of Kerry County Council and TII on this scheme.

The "Digging Around Listowel – The Archaeology of the N69 Bypass"Story Map has been updated by AMS and relaunched with new content describing the final archaeological results of the scheme, as well as recent pollen analysis undertaken by Dr Karen Molloy of NUIG.

TII archaeologist Ken Hanley, has produced a new Story Map "The people of medieval Killeagh", describing the archaeological discoveries of the N25 Killeagh Pavement Strengthening Scheme in east County Cork, in collaboration with Cork County Council and Rubicon Heritage.

While AMS have produced a fascinating project website for the N77 Ballyragget Village to Ballynaslee Road Improvement Scheme on behalf of Kilkenny County Council and TII. This project website showcases 19th century life with the story of Mabel Cahill. It also provides a link to a youtube dig diary by site director John Channing.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep - Archaeological discoveries on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project.

This public talk is being organised and delivered by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

M28 Archaeology Open Day: Archaeological Site Ballinimlagh 3, excavation of 17th century farmstead, https://goo.gl/maps/3iNMjnysZDCMyLbn6.

Advanced booking is essential, please call 021-452-0286 or email bookings@rubiconheritage for available timeslots between 10:00 and 14:00 (last timeslot 13:00).

This open day is being organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep - Archaeological discoveries on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project.

This public talk is being organised and delivered by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Ballaghcullia, Ballinagare: a Middle Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery in County Roscommon, Ireland  

This event is organised by Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, AMS, and Roscommon County Council.  

As places are limited booking is essential, please reserve your seat by emailing the Centre at info@rathcroghan.ie or by phone on 071 963 9268  

Synergies: transport projects and collaborative research in archaeology

At this seminar, we will showcase the various synergies that have formed between the academic, regulatory and private sectors to address highly relevant research topics and create new knowledge and understanding for the academic world and for the general public alike.  Papers will include:
 

Title: Past, present and future perspectives on agriculture

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Meriel McClatchie, UCD School of Archaeology

Title: Experimental Arcaheology: making, understanding, storytelling

Speakers: Prof. Aidan O'Sullivan and Dr Brendan O’Neill, UCD School of Archaeology/UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture

Title: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: food and people in rural post-medieval Ireland

Speaker: Dr Ellen O'Carroll, FoodCult Project, UCD School of Archaeology

Title: Gortnacrannagh: the story so far

Speaker: Dr Eve Campbell, Archaeological Management Solutions

Title: A humble beginning: collecting potential research data on the M28

Speakers: Bruce Sutton and Patricia Long, Rubicon Heritage

Title: Finding the people in the bones: bioarchaeological studies of human skeletal populations from Irish road schemes

Speaker: Prof. Eileen Murphy. Queen's University Belfast

Title: A finger on the pulse—how linear developments track later prehistoric activity through time and space

Speaker: Dr Katharina Becker, University College Cork

Title: Making a house a home: odd deposits in ordinary households in later medieval Ireland 1200–1600 AD

Speaker: Dr Karen Dempsey, Cardiff University

Title: Project Radiocarbon—a digital research repository of radiocarbon dates for Ireland and Britain

Speaker: Dr Neil Carlin, UCD School of Archaeology

Title: Pathways through space and time: synthesising evidence from excavations

Speaker: Dr Rowan McLoughlin, Maynooth University

Title: Automatic for the people: the road to developing a machine-learning model for Irish archaeology

Speaker: Dr Susan Curran, The Discovery Programme

For further information please email: archaeology@tii.ie.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Unlocking Killeagh’s Past: presenting results of the excavations at the medieval burial ground on the N25 Killeagh Pavement Strengthening Scheme’ will be given by Dr. Dawn Gooney (Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd) and Ken Hanley (Transport Infrastructure Ireland),

This talk is being organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Final results of the excavations along the N69 Listowel Bypass will be presented by Tony Bartlett and Ross Drummond of AMS.

Dr Karen Molloy from the University of Galway will discuss her analysis of a bog core taken in proximity to the Bypass, describing the fossil pollen, history of woodland and land use change in the Listowel area since the Bronze Age.

This event is organised by AMS on behalf of Kerry County Council and TII.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Digging Deep: A Year in the Lives of Archaeologists on the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project .

This photographic exhibition is organised by Rubicon Heritage on behalf of Cork County Council and TII.

Viking Heritage Day at Woodstown  

Viking heritage celebration at Woodstown on the Waterford Greenway (access from Carriganore or Killoteran car parks). Watch Viking battle re-enactments and kiddie vikes and browse through the Viking Craft Village - spinning, leather, pottery, coin making and jewellery. Take part in Dig in a Box, view artefacts with the National Museum, see the replica Viking boat, try your hand at being an archaeologist - who knows what you may discover!  
 
This event is run by Déise Medieval in collaboration with Waterford City and County Council, SETU, TII, National Museum Ireland, TVAS Archaeology and Abarta Heritage. 

For further information contact: bguest@waterfordcouncil.ie  

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(Updated: 18th August 2023)