Archaeology Ireland

Archived since Autumn 1987 Complete Archive Quarterly
145 issues
Archaeology Ireland magazine, published every quarter since 1987, provides a comprehensive range of articles, news and features. Content covers numerous areas in archaeology including science, art, architecture, history, geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, religion and more. The magazine offers readers a broad range of well-researched, lavishly illustrated articles on a range of topics at an accessible level to all, whether it’s a passing or professional interest. Archaeology Ireland is a key reference guide for students, visitors from abroad, those in the field, and all archaeology fans with an interest in Ireland’s archaeological wonders.

All issues of Archaeology Ireland, from the first one in 1987 to the latest quarterly edition, are now available as digital editions with a fully searchable digital archive, creating an invaluable resource of over 120 issues of well-researched and lavishly illustrated articles, as well as over 80 Heritage Guide supplements that study a range of Irish archaeological sites in fine-combed detail.

Latest issue
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A BIT OF A TALE 
Matt Seaver, Graeme Warren and Rena Maguire track the journey of an Irish Iron Age horse bit  


ST CANICE’S, FINGLAS, AND THE HIBERNO-NORSE CHURCHES OF DUBLIN 
Paul Duffy explains how construction dates can be pushed back into the later eleventh century
 
RATHRA,  CO. ROSCOMMON
In this contribution to Folklore Focus Marion Dowd examines the ‘fairy fort’ beliefs around ringforts 
 
VIKING AGE WOMEN CONNECTING IRELAND AND NORWAY 
Patrick Herbage, Aoife O’Shaughnessy, Kristin Armstrong-Oma and Håkon Reiersen give an insight into Irish objects found in Rogaland, Norway
 
THE CHURCH ON THE HILL 
Cormac Bourke examines a medieval lintel at Magherally, Co. Down 
 
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SECTOR—THE CASE FOR A SECTORAL EMPLOYMENT ORDER 
James Kyle, Richard Clutterbuck, Clíodhna Ní Lionáin, Niall O’Hora and Jean O’Dowd on how the archaeology branch of Unite aims to set agreed pay standards for archaeologists
 
HISTORICAL DIETARY PATTERNS 
In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey profile the general food-consumption patterns in Ireland from earliest times and review the relatively low consumption of meat and fish by the population at large
 
DRAGOONHILL EXCAVATIONS 
Ken Wiggins, Liam Coen and Maeve McCormick examine an elevated site chosen for settlement by generations of people over six millennia
 
BALLINALEE STONE STRUCTURE 
Excavations often lead to unanswered questions. Judith Carroll shares the details of one such unusual feature which is still unexplained 
 
THE BARE BONES 
Neolithic chambered cairns: Matt Ritchie presents a very regional view of Neolithic burial habits 
 
IMIRCE: MIGRATION AND IRELAND THROUGH TIME 
Details of the programme for the National Monuments Service 2023 conference

Heritage Guide No. 102: ST FINIAN'S MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD, ESKER, LUCAN, CO. DUBLIN
St Finian’s is just one of three extant medieval churches in the Lucan area, each the focus of a parish, in the barony of Newcastle. It is 1km from Lucan village and is said to have been built in the twelfth century. It is a ruined medieval parish church and graveyard, constructed of rough limestone masonry, within a roughly trapezoidal nineteenth-century stone enclosure.  
 
In medieval times St Finian’s held a strategic location on the Slíghe Mhór (the Great Way), the medieval road that crossed the country from Tara to Dublin, and thence to Clonard (of St Finian) and on to Galway. The Slíghe Mhór took advantage here of the stony, elevated esker from which the area derives its name.  
 
St Finian’s church appears to date mainly from the Anglo-Norman period (from the thirteenth century on), with additions or revisions in the sixteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology, History

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  • First Issue: Autumn 1987
  • Latest Issue: Autumn 2023
  • Issue Count: 145
  • Published: Quarterly
  • ISSN: 2565-6066