In every book in the TII Heritage series we rediscover the capacity of the Irish landscape to offer us encounters with past peoples, from remote periods, and lives that were very unlike our own. Around the Bay of Dundalk is a special treat. Here the landscape of the past has a gr
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Site 28, Laughanstown, is located along the route of the South Eastern Motorway at National Grid Reference 32314/23314 O.S. Sheet 26 and is in an area utilised as an 181h century army camp. Following a licenced metal detection survey of an area 20m x 40m a series of features were
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This site was found during the monitoring of topsoil stripping under licence no. 0 IE1229 in advance of the construction of the South Eastern Motorway at NGR 322489/223569. The area had been stripped at different times so the initial archaeological area identified was mu
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The archaeological site at Bricketstown was identified during archaeological monitoring of topsoil removal (licence 00E0379) along the route of the Rathsillagh to Harristown Little N25 realignment scheme in Co. Wexford. The site was excavated under excavation licence number 00E06
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This report presents the results of archaeological investigations carried out on behalf of Kildare County Council as part of Archaeological Services Contract No. 4 ? Resolution, Prumplestown to Powerstown, prior to the commencement of construction on this section of the N9/N10 Ki
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Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd (IAC), funded by the National Roads Authority (NRA) through Kilkenny County Council, undertook an excavation at the site of AR066, Tinvaun 4 along the proposed N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4 – Knocktopher to Powerstown (Figure 1
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Archaeological investigations in the townland of Leggetsrath West (Site E), County Kilkenny, were carried out by Anne-Marie Lennon under licence number 04E0661 issued by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The site at Leggetsrath West was originally
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This report comprises the preliminary results of the archaeological excavation of AR038 in the townland of Knockmoylan, Co. Kilkenny. This excavation was undertaken as part of the archaeological programme for the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Knocktopher sec
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The proposed excavation was carried out following the initial archaeological assessment by Valerie J Keeley Ltd (2005) and completion of the subsequent centreline testing (Margaret Gowen & Co Ltd 2006). The goal of this project was to preserve by record the archaeological site/s
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This final archaeological report describes the results of the excavation carried out at the site of Kilcurley 1 in the townland of Kilcurley, Co. Offaly (Figure 1 and 2) as part of an archaeological mitigation programme associated with the N6 Phase 2: Kilbeggan to Athlone Dual Ca
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This site at Blundelstown 1 was excavated by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd (ACS) as part of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council NRDO and the NRA. The excavation was carried out between February and March 2007 under Ministerial
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This site at Williamstown or Bawn 2 was excavated by Kevin Martin for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd (ACS) as part of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council NRDO and the NRA. The excavation was carried out between 29 Mar
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