JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY 2024 Vol. XXXIV 

CONTENTS 

Kerri Cleary

Editorial

Ben Spillane

Staking a claim in the lower Suir Valley: a chronological and spatial analysis of a Middle Bronze Age micro-landscape at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford

Bruce Sutton, Scott Timpany, Lorna O’Donnell and Sarah-Jane Haston

Timber and fire: a multi-proxy environmental investigation of a burnt mound site at Pollsharvoge, Co. Mayo

Neil Jackman, Susan Curran, Petra Schneidhofer, Christer Tonning, Robert Shaw and Ger Dowling

A Viking settlement on the Suir—reappraising the story of Woodstown through geophysical survey

Gary Dempsey

Building identity: patronage and stonemasons in the west of Ireland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Mick Mongey

Leinster Cooking Ware revisited

Michael O’Mahony

Shaping space in stone: the spatio-structural development of Irish tower-houses and their connection to British tower-houses

Marion Dowd

‘Every night, the crying of babies’: folklore associated with cillíní (children’s burial grounds)

Aidan Harte, Joanna Brück and Niall Murray

The archaeology of conflict in east Limerick, 1917–23

Arnold Horner

Using the Ordnance Survey ‘fair plans’ to explore the cultural landscape of pre-Famine Ireland: examples from County Westmeath

REPORTS

Marion Dowd, Marco De Martino, Margaret McCarthy and Claudio Ottoni 

Earliest direct-dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) from Ireland

Alan Hawkes

A recent discovery of Beaker pottery at Barnahely, Co. Cork

Robert Janiszewski

A gold terminal with Latin inscription from Newgrange, Co. Meath

BOOK REVIEWS

MICHELLE COMBER and KIERAN O’CONOR (eds). People, prehistory and the past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Reviewed by Elizabeth Shee Twohig

REBECCA BOYD. Exploring Ireland’s Viking-age towns: houses and homes. Reviewed by Letty Ten Harkel

JAMES O’DRISCOLL, ALAN HAWKES and WILLIAM O’BRIEN, with contributions from NICK HOGAN and KEVIN KEARNEY. Baltinglass and the prehistoric hillforts of Ireland. Reviewed by Fernando R. Del Cueto

MIKE COPPER, ALASDAIR WHITTLE and ALISON SHERIDAN (eds). Revisiting Grooved Ware: understanding ceramic trajectories in Britain and Ireland, 3200–2400 cal BC.

Reviewed by Elaine Lynch