Journal of Irish Archaeology

The Journal of Irish Archaeology (JIA) is the journal of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland. It is a peer-reviewed, annual journal, comprising articles on Irish archaeology and related topics. Editorship of the journal changes every two years, rotating between the archaeology teaching staff in third-level institutions on the island of Ireland.

 EDITED BY KERRI CLEARY

 

Martin Moucheron, Bernard Gilhooly and Graeme Warren

Searching through rubble: archaeological reassessment of a Mesolithic midden site at Sutton, Co. Dublin 

Maeve Tobin

Together in death, together in life? An Early Bronze Age dual-rite pit burial containing multiple individuals at Newtown, Co. Dublin   

William O’Brien and Nick Hogan

Archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age stone circle and boulder-burial at Gorteanish, Ahakista, Co. Cork

Marion Dowd, Elaine Lynch, Cian Hogan, Margaret McCarthy, Mara Tesorieri, Donal Hogan and Tim O’Connell

Excavations in Poll Bunker, Co. Clare: a(nother) multi-period cave site in the Burren

Paul Gosling

The Ford of Broe, River Boyne, Co. Meath

Tadhg O’Keeffe

Monasteranenagh Abbey, Co. Limerick: the architectural history of a Mellifont daughter-house 

Dawn Gooney

Results of the osteoarchaeological examination and isotopic analyses of human skeletal remains from 5–6 John’s Lane West, Dublin 

 

REPORTS

William P. Megarry, Cathy Daly and Aneta Nerguti

Evaluating climate change risk at Ireland’s Tentative World Heritage Sites

Marc Piera

Rathmullan excavation: a prehistoric landscape in the Boyne Valley

 

Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, with contributions from Nikolah Gilligan and Susan Lyons

A good vintage: the earliest grapes (Vitis vinifera) in Ireland 

 

Niamh Daly and David Murphy

A unique example of medieval bound burials in the context of Irish archaeology

 

 

SHANE DELANEY and EILEEN MURPHY. The forgotten cemetery: excavations at Ranelagh, Co. Roscommon, reviewed by Chris Corlett.

JOHN WADDELL. Pagan Ireland: ritual and belief in another world, reviewed by Barry Cunliffe.

 

STEPHEN DAVIS and CAITRÍONA MOORE. Excavations at Tlachtga, Hill of Ward, Co. Meath, Ireland, reviewed by Patrick Gleeson.

 

GABRIEL COONEY.  Death in Irish prehistory, reviewed by Jess E. Thompson.

 

RICHARD BRADLEY. Monumental times: pasts, presents and futures in the prehistoric construction projects of northern and western Europe, reviewed by Phyllis Mercer.

 

BARRIE HARTWELL, SARAH GORMLEY, CATRIONA BROGAN and CAROLINE MALONE (eds). Ballynahatty: excavations in a Neolithic monumental landscape, reviewed by Ros Ó Maoldúin.