Archaeology Ireland  Summer 2022.

ACTIVE HOPE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND HERITAGE IN FINGAL

Christine Baker describes a proactive, community approach to the challenges of climate change faced by heritage sites

KILRUANE GRAVEYARD 

In this contribution to the Folklore Focus series, Marion Dowd records folk beliefs attached to the graveyard beside Kilruane medieval church

SOMETHING ‘BORROWED’ AND SOMETHING ‘BLEW’—MARY ANN McCRACKEN ON LOUGHNASHADE

John Ó Néill reveals the antiquarian interests of a well-known social reformer

EUROPE’S OLDEST DOORBELL

Cormac Bourke shares the fortuitous discovery of an early Irish hand-bell in England

CROSSING THE BOYNE WATER

Paul Gosling examines the pass at Oldbridge and other Irish fords

THE STRAWBERRY TREE IN IRELAND                   

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington and Nick Scott ask whether botanical research can help to explain how Bronze Age culture came to Ireland

‘ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS’: RE-ESTABLISHING THE MOYNAGH LOUGH PROJECT

Michael Potterton describes the latest research on material excavated from the County Meath crannog 

ASSEMBLY SITES IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey review what is known about the assembly sites of Gaelic Ireland 

GOOD NEIGH-BOURS

Rena Maguire wonders why there was a Saxon-style snaffle bit on Lagore crannog

MUSEUM PIECE

Jayne Pierce tells us about the South Georgia Museum and describes a piece from its collections