Archaeology Research Grant Reports
A Corpus of cheek-pieces of Irish origin
15 December 2023Research visits to Alnwick Castle and the Ashmolean Museum, and to the National Museum of Scotland and Pitt Rivers Museum to record previously unknown cheek-pieces of Irish origin.
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Archaeological remote sensing investigations at Galey Castle and its surrounding area, Co. Roscommon
14 December 2023This project sought to explore this castle ruin, and its immediate environs, and has answered questions relating to its immediate landscape context and morphology.
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Crafting the Knowth macehead: an experimental exploration of a unique Neolithic artefact
14 December 2023This project strives to determine and recreate the specialist processes and technologies that were used to craft the Knowth Maesmor-type macehead.
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Let sleeping dogs lie: dating animal bones from inside Newgrange passage tombDr Neil Carlin
14 December 2023From June to November 2023, the Let Sleeping Dogs Lie project team investigated how and when the bones of various animals entered the interior of the large Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange.
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Archaeology Research Grants Awarded 2023
06 September 2023Please click download to view a list of the most recent Archaeology Research Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2024.
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Geophysical survey at the Creeveroe linear earthworks: a previously unidentified hillfort?
13 March 2023A number of geophysical survey techniques were employed in order to accurately map the archaeological features associated with the Creeveroe earthworks.
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What’s Cooking? Organic Residue Analysis of a Middle Bronze Age pottery assemblage from Corrstown in Northern Ireland
27 February 2023Forty potsherds recovered during excavations in the early 2000s at Corrstown Co. Derry/Londonderry, were subjected to Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
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Topographic and Geophysical Survey of Lurigethan Promontory Fort, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
29 November 2022Between August and November 2022, a drone-based photogrammetry survey and a terrestrial soil resistivity survey were undertaken at Lurigethan inland promontory fort.
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DigiHerd: digitally preserving Ireland’s earliest and largest cattle assemblage
26 November 2022The DigiHerd project undertook pilot X-ray CT scanning of a heavily fragmented Neolithic cattle skull (c. 200 fragments) excavated from an enclosure ditch at Kilshane, Co. Dublin.
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Infant mortality and kinship in the Irish Iron Age
25 November 2022The project ‘infant mortality and kinship in the Iron Age’ examines a newly identified group of infant burials of Iron Age date.
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Portal tomb construction: Doogort West, Achill Island, Co Mayo
23 November 2022The survey asked whether it would be possible to reconstruct a portal tomb in Doogart West, in Co. Mayo.
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Crafting the Knowth macehead: an experimental exploration of a unique Neolithic artefact
17 November 2022Through an exploration of several strands of experimental archaeological research, this project seeks to ‘reverse-engineer’ the specialist technology required to craft theKnowth maesmor-type macehead.
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Juvenile Kids in an Urban Medieval Town
16 September 2022The report aims to provide an overview of the findings of the scientific analysis undertaken on a sample of juvenile animal remains (no. 30) in the medieval urban town of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim.
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30 June 2022Please click download to view a list of the most recent Archaeology Research Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.
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Loughnashade and King’s Stables. Understanding the deposition sites of the Navan landscape
26 January 2022The project examined the Late Bronze Age pool King’s Stables at Haughey’s Fort and Loughnashade at Navan Fort, Co. Armagh.
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Fingerprinting Famine Graves
28 October 2021The planned drone surveys of two Great Famine cemeteries took place at Pulla, Co. Waterford, and Gort, Co. Galway.
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Finding the Black Castle
28 October 2021Our project aimed to identify the site of the medieval Black Castle in Birr, through systematic geophysical survey.
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Geophysical Survey at Haughey's Fort, Co Armagh
28 October 2021This report outlines the preliminary results of the project, which aimed to employ geophysical survey techniques over the important Late Bronze Age hillfort of Haughey's Fort and its environs.
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A preliminary investigation of the materiality of equestrian culture in early medieval Ireland (Interim Report)
28 October 2021This project has sought to provide the first ever overview of early medieval equestrianism and associated equipment. This preliminary report describes work carried out to date.
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Revealing Roesia: geophysical survey at the de Verdun castle at Roche, Co. Louth
28 October 2021This project aims to investigate the building remains within the Anglo-Norman castle and potential Deserted Medieval Village on the plateau to the east.
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A new scientific approach to determine agricultural management strategies in medieval Ireland
20 May 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Research Grants scheme
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Environmental assessment of samples from excavations at Linn Duachaill
20 May 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Research Grants scheme
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Quarrying the past: Petrographic analysis of Dublin’s medieval building stone
20 May 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Research Grants scheme
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A Community Archaeology Project at Killyloughran, Creggan, South Armagh
20 May 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Research Grants scheme
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Northern Ireland’s Round Towers (NIRT): Establishing a Chronology and Technological Understanding through Mortar
20 May 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Research Grants scheme
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