Heritage Week 2024 Projects and Events
Heritage Week 2024 has several events where the results of TII archaeological and heritage works are being featured, as well as events where TII Archaeologists will be presenting papers.
Saturday 17th August
Ken Hanley, TII Archaeologist, will be presenting The Importance of Quality: how Transport Infrastructure Ireland engages with the commercial archaeology sector at
Rubicon Heritage's Modern Routes Towards the Past: Talking 20 Years of Cork Archaeology, with Rubicon Heritage 10am - 4pm, Nano Nagle Place, T12 X70A, Cork City. Session 1 (10.00 - 11.40am) of this event focuses on TII projects, including the Dunkettle Interchange, the N22 Baile Bhuirne to Macroom Road Scheme, and the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Scheme. Session 2 (14.20 to 15.30pm) also features a paper on the regeneration of Buttevant's Main Street (14.50pm) by Rubicon's Trish Long.
You can register for the seminar at HW2024Booking - RUBICON HERITAGE
Jerry O'Sullivan, TII Archaeologist, will be presenting a talk on Early Roads and Milestones at Moycullen Heritage's Moycullen and Killanin historical connections: by road and railway 17th August, 7.30 - 9.30pm, Killanin Community Centre, Killanin, H91 N5DC.
Further information Heritage week portal and moycullenheritage@gmail.com
Sunday 18th August
Áonach na nDéise - Woodstown Viking Heritage Festival
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!
Check https://www.facebook.com/DeiseMedieval/ for scheduled running order of activities.
This event is run by Déise Medieval in collaboration with Waterford City and County Council, SETU, TII, National Museum of Ireland, TVAS Archaeology, The Discovery Programme and Abarta Heritage.
For further information contact: bguest@waterfordcouncil.ie
Monday 19th August
Dr Eve Campbell, AMS delivering a pre-recorded talk ‘Later Medieval Gaelic Settlement in Machaire Connacht, insights from the N5 Ballaghaderreen-Scramoge Road Project’ which will be available on Rathcroghan Visitor Centre social media and youtube channel from 19th August.
For further information contact: info@rathcroghan.ie
Thursday 22nd August
TII Heritage Week Seminar 2024: Connections and Reflections
This year's TII Heritage Week Seminar will take place on Thursday, 22 August, at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 HH58.
Fully booked, to join waiting list please email archaeology@tii.ie
Registration from 09:00
Please note that images of human remains may be displayed during the seminar.
Session 1 09:50 to 11:20
- Railway connections - Dublin city
- Rob Goodbody, Historic Building Consultant
- N77 Ballyraggett to Ballynaslee Road Improvement Scheme
Hidden histories in contemporary archaeology
- John Channing, AMS
- Later Medieval Gaelic Settlement in Machaire Connacht, insights from the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project
- Dr Eve Campbell, AMS
Session 2 11:50 to 13:10
- Ancient Places – archaeology on the N5/N59 road project in West Mayo
- Dr Kerri Cleary, ACSU
- Waking from the Dreamtime: the Iron Age in the light of excavations along the N4
- Dr John Ó Néill, IAC
- Beautiful beads and unusual practices at Iron Age ring-ditches in the wider Rathcroghan landscape, insights from the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project.
- Dr Rós ÓMaolduin, AMS
Session 3 14:00 to 15:50
- A sword from the Kingdom: initial findings from Gurteen North 3 on the Dingle Peninsula
- Tony Bartlett, AMS
- Fiery Death and Memorials on New Frontiers. Cremation and reuse of Middle Bronze Age ancestral cemeteries on the N25 New Ross Bypass
- Dr Ben Spillane
- At the Foot of the Mountain: archaeological discoveries on the N16 Road Project, Co. Sligo
- James McKee, AMS
- The Biomechanics of a Physically Impaired Individual from Early Medieval Ranelagh, County Roscommon
- Jess White, QUB
To join waiting list please email archaeology@tii.ie
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(Updated: 20th August 2024)
