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.

PAPERS
Ben Spillane
Staking a claim in the lower Suir Valley: a chronological and spatial analysis of a Middle Bronze Age micro-landscape at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford

Bruce Sutton, Scott Timpany, Lorna O’Donnell and Sarah-Jane Haston
Timber and fire: a multi-proxy environmental investigation of a burnt mound site at Pollsharvoge, Co. Mayo

Neil Jackman, Susan Curran, Petra Schneidhofer, Christer Tonning, Robert Shaw and Ger Dowling
A Viking settlement on the Suir—reappraising the story of Woodstown through geophysical survey

Gary Dempsey
Building identity: patronage and stonemasons in the west of Ireland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Mick Mongey
Leinster Cooking Ware revisited

Michael O’Mahony
Shaping space in stone: the spatio-structural development of Irish tower-houses and their connection to British tower-houses

Marion Dowd
‘Every night, the crying of babies’: folklore associated with cillíní (children’s burial grounds)

Aidan Harte, Joanna Brück and Niall Murray
The archaeology of conflict in east Limerick, 1917–23

Arnold Horner
Using the Ordnance Survey ‘fair plans’ to explore the cultural landscape of pre-Famine Ireland: examples from County Westmeath

Reports
Marion Dowd, Marco De Martino, Margaret McCarthy and Claudio Ottoni 
Earliest direct-dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) from Ireland

Alan Hawkes
A recent discovery of Beaker pottery at Barnahely, Co. Cork

Robert Janiszewski
A gold terminal with Latin inscription from Newgrange, Co. Meath