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Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme Reports

Archaeology Radiocarbon Dates scheme Awarded 2022

31 March 2022

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Radiocarbon Dates Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.

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Excavations at Beaubec, Bey More, Co. Meath

28 October 2021

The Beaubec Excavations team was awarded to acquire a date for what was believed to be a Late Neolithic pit circle.

Matthew Stout Download

Timber row, Dugort beach, Achill Island Co Mayo

28 October 2021

In June 2015 a series of preserved wooden stakes were noted within an intertidal peat formation at Dugort, Achill Island, co. Mayo.

Eoin Halpin Download

Dating of system of perimeter banks on Knocknashee hill, Co. Sligo

28 October 2021

In August 2020 excavation was undertaken of a section of the system of perimeter banks at the suspected Bronze Age hillfort of Knocknashee, Co. Sligo.

Dirk Brandherm Download

Radiocarbon dating human remains from Glencurran Cave, Co. Clare

25 June 2021

Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme

Marion Dowd Download

Excavation at Doolin Storm Beach, Ballaghaline, Co. Clare

25 June 2021

Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme.

Michael Lynch Download

Staad Climate and Environmental Change Project

25 June 2021

Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2019 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme.

Fiona Beglane Download

Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme Awarded 2020

22 June 2020

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates scheme awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2021.

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New Radiocarbon Dates from a Middle Bronze Age Enclosed Settlement at Knockhouse Lower Co. Waterford.

01 November 2019

This project focuses on re-dating material from the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age (MBA) enclosed roundhouse at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford (03E1033).

Mr Ben Spillane Download

Site C (1940) Lough Gur, Co. Limerick

14 June 2019

Funding for three samples was received under the Royal Irish Academy Radiocarbon Dates Scheme. The samples were taken from pottery from Seán P. Ó Ríordáin's 1940 excavations at Site C.  

Dr Rose Cleary Download

Cromlech Tumulus and Danish Ditch, Keel East, Doagh, Achill Island, Co. Mayo

05 December 2018

Three radiocarbon dates were obtained for the excavation 14E109 at the ‘Cromlech Tumulus’ and ‘Danish Ditch’, Slievemore, Keel East, Achill Island, Co. Mayo (MA042-021002-; MA042-021003-).

Dr Eve Campbell Download