Amazing weekend at the Workd Master Mountain Running championships in Meduno - great haul of Irish medals

Busy week next week www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

Conservation Management Plan for the beautiful and enigmatic St Fintan’s Church made available by @fingal.ie Very proud of the end product - www.fingal.ie/sites/defaul...

🙏🙏🤘 open.spotify.com/show/2CxV9Kh...

Tomorrow I will be exploring results from @IACArchaeology excavations at this @FMDublin tour as part of the brilliant @CultureDateD8 programme

Windy Day for it! But possibly best medal ever..

My talk on the varied and surprising links between Ireland and the Crusades for a wet afternoon peeling spuds m.youtube.com/watch?v=P7pg...

And one for anyone interested in Irish history: 'Run with the Hare, Hunt with the Hound' by @pdufaigh.bsky.social – an immersive plunge into the time of the Norman arrival in Ireland, full of moral dubiousness. And as Paul is one of our leading archaeologists of medieval Dublin, it is VERY accurate

Available on Audible/Spotify/Apple etc

An unsentimental Tudor-era mason fairly hacked up this 13thC grave-slab for his window sill!

Any ideas?

Arising from a really excellent conference at Dublin Castle organised by @nationalmons.bsky.social IMIRCE includes a whole range of reflections on immigration into Ireland throughout history anf pre-history wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro.... My talk from the day: m.youtube.com/watch?v=leqa...

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www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/r... audiobook on sale this month

Discover the stories behind the scenery with our ultimate guide to the Ring of Kerry! In my work as an archaeologist and author of a guidebook to the Wild Atlantic Way, I’ve had the great joy of visiting practically every nook and cranny along the coast of the Iveragh Peninsula. #Ireland

Any ideas on the script? C14th C graveslab

Screengrab from our photogrammetry model of a 14th Century stone footing (right) and lime kiln (left) beneath 1970s concrete foundations - Dublin 8

Hello new followers! Here's a list of some of my publications: first up, 'Loyalty and Rebellion: Irish soldiers in the British military during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars', published in 2022 with @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social. #OpenAcess journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bj...

Instead of burning/plundering, did the Vikings build/patronise Dublin churches?? Thx to Neil + Roisin @tuatha.ie for a great recording experience www.abartaheritage.ie/stories-of-o... @socmedarch.bsky.social @medievalists.bsky.social @friendlesschurches.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Check out the latest classical studies and archaeology catalogue, available to read here on ISSUU: bit.ly/4b01WSs

Morning Moonshine over Luggala

open.spotify.com/show/2CxV9Kh... immensely proud of this - amazing reading by actor Bob Kelly. Spread the word!

Plaster mould from 18thC context on Bride St, Dublin. Any ideas what it was for?? Looks like maybe a brass doorhandle but the underside is flat - not globular @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social @postmedieval.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social

Good day today - Discovered a ‘nine man morris’ board scratched into a 14thC roof slate from our excavations in Dublin City

Sneak preview of conservation work - Lanistown Castle

Trim Castle • Meath Built in the 12th century by the powerful Anglo-Norman lord Hugh De Lacy, Trim Castle is one of the most impressive medieval castles in Ireland. And as today is the first Wednesday of the month, it is free to visit! #IrishBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

It's been a busy two years of research. Looking at 12th C. Connacht. These are just some of the stones I've identified (with a lot of help). Fingers cross they will be published next year.

A pair of early 18thC marble fireplace corbels from an excavation at Molyneux House, Dublin. Prepping for display in the new development

Ever wonder what an artistic vision of Dublin would look like if it was sketched free-hand in a selection of syrups on top of a flat white? Now you don’t have to….beanhive Baggot st!

White Hill and the Wicklow Gap

Infinity loop! 15/16thC mason’s mark I found this week while working on a collection of medieval stone