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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109
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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109
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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
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109
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420
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2009
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30 Mar 2013
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A late Mesolithic lithic scatter from Corralanna, Co. Westmeath, and its place in the Mesolithic landscape of the Irish Midlands
Graeme Warren
Aimée Little
Michael Stanley
1 - 35
Discusses a surface collection of late Mesolithic date from Corralanna, Co. Westmeath. The site, which was discovered after peat extraction in 1999, is characterised by a lithic assemblage comprised almost exclusively of chert, two axes, some coarse stone tools and a small range of organic finds including uncarbonised hazelnut shells. This discussion reviews the material from Corralanna, with an especial emphasis on the character of the chipped stone assemblage, placing the site in its appropriate landscape and archaeological contexts. Three radiocarbon dates from hazelnut shells were obtained. These are not demonstrably associated with the lithics, but the dates are in keeping with late Mesolithic stone-tool technology. Although the assemblage is derived from a surface collection, and suffers from some of the problems associated with this, the site at Corralanna offers a significant contribution to our understanding of Mesolithic settlement in the Midlands, an area rich in Mesolithic archaeology, but one that has been somewhat neglected until recently.
The excavation of an Early Christian rath with later medieval occupation at Drumadoon, Co. Antrim
Cormac McSparron
Brian Williams
105 - 164
Excavations at a collapsing mound at Drumadoon, Co. Antrim revealed a rath and souterrain displaying two distinct phases of Early Christian occupation, which was later re-worked and re-occupied as a motte, probably in the latter half of the thirteenth century. The site was enclosed by a bank, without a ditch, and had an eastern entrance. The bank was the first part of the site to be constructed, with the souterrain built later'”although during the same construction phase. Hearths, post-holes, wall-footings and other structural elements dating to the Early Christian occupation phases, as well as evidence for continual repair to the rath bank, were found. Significant amounts of Souterrain Ware pottery, bone, metal artefacts, slag and environmental remains were uncovered from the Early Christian strata at the site. The site was significantly altered during its re-occupation in the medieval period, with a closing of the rath entrance and a levelling and slight raising of the site's interior. Traces of a single, sub-circular stone setting from this period were found, which may be evidence that a light structure had been constructed. Wheel-thrown pottery was recovered from the medieval strata, as were pottery in the Souterrain Ware and Medieval Ulster Coarse Pottery (Everted Rim Ware) traditions, significant bone and macro-floral remains, half of a silver coin and a copper alloy decorated bell-shrine.
Appendix A; the Drumadoon bell-shrine
Cormac Bourke
145 - 164
'My body to be buried in my owne monument': the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600'“1700
Paul Cockerham
239 - 365
The seventeenth-century funeral monuments of Co. Kilkenny are documented and changes in their design and meaning related both to local socio-economic factors and wider historical events. The traditional 'box-tombs' of the start of the century, displaying Christo-centric iconography and manufactured by Walter Kerin, were slowly abandoned in favour of more visual monumental forms. Heraldic wall plaques were commissioned, together with much larger mural structures made by Patrick Kerin, which were based on a classical architectural paradigm of inscriptions and heraldry being equally crucial in communicating to the observer. This religious ambivalence assisted their survival in Protestant parish churches as visible markers perpetuating the burial rites of Catholic families in their traditional locations. Monumental enthusiasm during the Kilkenny Confederacy (1642'“9) was terminated abruptly by the Cromwellian invasion; following which, a lack of both suitable patrons and skilled sculptors hindered the resumption of the custom until well into the eighteenth century.
Appendix A; Kilkenny monuments 1600-1700, listed in chronologi...
352 - 364
Appendix B; monuments with 'Knaresborough'-model frame
365