The Celts did occupy Ireland The motion will be proposed by Professor David Stifter, Professor of Old Irish NUIM And Professor Graham Isaac. NUI Galway And opposed by Professor Peter Woodman NUI Cork Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Professor Tadhg O’Keeffe Head of School, UCD School of Archaeology Chairman: Dr. Proinsias Ó Drisceoil This [...]
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The Royal Irish Academy are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Royal Irish Academy 2012 Archaeology Research and Radiocarbon Dates grants. The closing date for both grants is Wednesday, 25 April 2012. For further information and to make your online application please click on the following link RIA Archaeology Research and [...]
A happy St. Patrick’s Day to all members of the KAS and all visitors to our website.
There appears to be a a process of tree cutting ongoing on the Curragh. Good in itself ,maybe, as trees are foreign to the Curragh Plains. However the cutting and removal of the trees is being done using heavy machinery while the soil is saturated. These photos were taken in the vicinity of the Curragh [...]
Theme: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online. Location: Dublin City University, Ireland Fiontar, Dublin City University (DCU) in collaboration with the Placenames Branch, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, is organising a Placenames Workshop with the theme: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online. This workshop will be held on 24–25 August 2012 [...]
the Oral History Network of Ireland is holding a seminar on “Collecting oral narratives: ethics, best practice and the law” in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin, on 21 March at 6pm sharp. The chair is Justice Catherine McGuinness and the panel will include oral history practitioners, historians, archivists and a lawyer specialising in [...]
The Society’s first meeting of 2012 will take place on Sunday 11th March, commencing at 3.00pm. The venue is Kilcullen Heritage Centre, and we will be having an illustrated talk by Richard Kirwan entitled “If Maps could Speak – the History of Ordnance Survey in Ireland”. The subscription is €5 per person, and tea and [...]
The Department of Archaeology in University College Cork is pleased to announce that a conference will take place in UCC on the 24th and 25th of March entitled ‘Landscapes of Assembly: the Óenach in Early Medieval Ireland’. This conference brings together speakers from various disciplines to examine diverse landscapes and practices of assembly, analysing this [...]
Today, Friday 2nd March, following the discovery of damage in the Frenchfurze area I went with two other KAS Council members to view the area. Having done so we went on a tour of the Curragh and noticed a number of other areas where furze had been removed. In some of the areas quite a [...]
Despite all the efforts of the KAS and other interested bodies, damage continues to be done to the Curragh Plains. Today, 1st March 2012, I took a walk in the Frenchfurze area of the Curragh. Heavy machinery had been used, yet again, to remove furze. The sward had been removed and deep ruts cut into [...]
