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Excavation of a Bronze Age round-house at Knockdomny, Co. Westmeath
Gerard Dowling

The liminal boundary: an analysis of the sacral potency of the ditch at
Ráith na Ríg, Tara, Co. Meath

Roseanne Schot
Uisneach Midi a medón Érenn: a prehistoric ‘cult’ centre and ‘royal site’ in Co. Westmeath

Rory Sherlock
Cross-cultural occurrences of mutations in tower house architecture:
evidence for cultural homogeneity in late medieval Ireland?

Tom Rogers, Linda Fibiger, L. G. Lynch and Declan Moore
Two glimpses of nineteenth-century institutional burial practice in Ireland: a report on the excavation of burials from Manorhamilton Workhouse, Co. Leitrim, and St Brigid’s Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

Máirín Ní Cheallaigh
Going astray in the fort field: ‘traditional’ attitudes towards ringforts in nineteenth-century Ireland

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