Archaeology Ireland is a quarterly magazine which has been in production since 1987. The magazine is aimed at both professional and non-professional readers.

Archaeology Ireland has become, over the years, a widely read and well-respected magazine which is frequently quoted in the national papers both in Ireland and the U.K.

 Archaeology Ireland  Summer 2023

 Monasterboice mystery resolved? 

George Sevastopulo and Roger Stalley seek the source of the stone of the famous Louth high crosses

Dirk Maas at the Battle of Aughrim 

Pádraig Lenihan identifies an eyewitness to the significant 1691 battle

Armagh Cathedral

In this contribution to Folklore Focus Marion Dowd describes successive difficulties in church construction at Armagh

Benchmarks—a view from up north

Peter Wilson and Frances Wilson look at the types and styles, significance and heritage of these familiar surveying symbols

Black gold in Roscommon

Ros Ó Maoldúin, Alison Sheridan, Eve Campbell and Lore Troalen explore the significance of a terminal plate of an Early Bronze Age jet spacer-plate necklace from Gortnacrannagh

Archaeobotany: what can plant macro-remains tell us?

In this contribution to our Environmental Archaeology series Penny Johnston explains the value of studying plant remains from archaeological excavations

Burnt mounds—the answer is under your fingernails …

Jennifer Breslin takes a fresh look at burnt mounds and their functions

Monuments and legislation

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey review the role of archaeological monuments in legislation

Rostellan to Sherkin: intertidal megaliths on the Cork coast

Michael Gibbons explores some vulnerable prehistoric tombs on the south coast