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Following the footprints

Marion Dowd, Tamlyn McHugh, Liam Ó hAisibéil and Sam Moore consider a cillín at Ardnaglass Lower, Co. Sligo.

Know your monuments: Monasterboice and Mellifont: why they are different

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey review the difference between the medieval monasteries of Monasterboice and Mellifont in County Louth.

Is the Drumwhinny Bow really a bow? 

Stephen Lalor uses an archer’s perspective to assess a purported prehistoric bow fragment in the Ulster Museum. 

Lissaniska—location, location, location!

Ed Lyne reports on a watery Kerry ringfort that appears to have had a special function.

A tortuous tale—a new twist on the torcs from ‘Tara’ 

Mary Cahill and John Ó Néill ask whether the ‘Tara torcs’ were really found at Tara and what happened to them after their discovery.

Hidden profits

Michael Kenny and Jon Stirland discuss a hidden purse of Anglo-Saxon coins from a corn-drying kiln in Haynestown, Co. Louth.

Dressing the Mesolithic Irish 

Niamh O’Rourke examines how people might have dressed in Mesolithic Ireland.

The marquess and Mycenae

Thomas Loughlin investigates the interesting relationship between the columns of the Treasury of Atreus and Westport House in Mayo.

St Moling’s Well

Chris Corlett describes the holy well at St Mullins in Carlow—a reminder of a previous pandemic.

Archaeology in Ireland’s journals 2020

Conleth Manning reviews last year’s offerings.

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