Volume 35 No. 4 Issue No. 138.

REWRITING THE PAST … 

Michelle Comber and Adam Parsons ask whether an artefact from Caherconnell cashel could be the earliest ink pen in Ireland 

SUSPECTED FOWL PLAY IN PREHISTORIC ACHILL 

Eoin Halpin investigates the function of a submerged stake row on the beach at Dugort, Achill Island

ON THE LINE 

Colm Donnelly, Eileen Murphy, Gillian Allmond, Brian Sloan and Alastair Ruffell share the results of an archaeological investigation of a ‘famine road’ in Drummacoorin, Boho, Co. Fermanagh

MAPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC AT NEWGRANGE 

Frank Prendergast, Clare Tuffy, Sinéad Gargan, John Lalor and Claire Breen shed new light on the solar illumination in the burial chamber on winter solstice 

PANIC AT MACDERMOT’S FEAST 

Thomas Finan and James G. Schryver seek evidence for a tragic event on Lough Key island 

GALLARUS ORATORY 

In this contribution to Folklore Focus, Marion Dowd records folk beliefs attached to the well-known early medieval oratory

EXPOSING THE EXHIBITIONISTS 

Gary Dempsey and Orla-Peach Power share some observations from the Sheela3D project 

KNOCKROE PASSAGE TABMO FRONTIER MONUMENT? 

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey discuss the siting of Knockroe passage tomb beside a deep gorge that has acted as a frontier since time immemorial  

NOT WELL COVERED 

Chris Corlett reveals a Romanesque remnant hiding in plain sight in County Kilkenny 

OBITUARY 

Niamh Whitfield remembers architectural historian Ian Fisher

PLUS REGULARS

News 

Quote ... unquote 

News from the  Net 

A note from Hy Brasil 

Events 

Book news 

Museum piece 

Seán Browne tells us about the Castlerea Railway Museum and describes a piece from its collections