6/6 The Lough Kinale Shrine reconstructed! Ireland’s oldest & largest Book Shrine was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake Now, Discovery Programme has used 3D modelling to digitally reconstruct it with @nmireland.bsky.social for #wordsonthewave exhibition: @heritagecouncil.ie

📢 Announcing a new @researchireland.ie-funded project exploring Tara places in Ireland 'Tara by Name, Tara by Nature?' will explore archaeological connections between Ireland’s 'temair' places It will be led by The Discovery Programme's Dr Susan Curran @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

Our Research Archaeologist Dr Susan Curran is currently in Trondheim, Norway at the @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social (AARG) conference. Dr Curran is the Honorary Secretary for AARG and presenting a poster from the Discovery Programme on Remote Sensing data

5/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken in medieval times & the pieces left in a lake... We've now digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til post #6 18/09 for full shrine skfb.ly/pAIXp skfb.ly/pAIXs

4/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken apart in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow until post #6 18/09 to see the full shrine

3/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow until post #6 18/09 to see the full shrine

2/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken apart in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til 18/09 for the full shrine 👀

We are thrilled to see CHERISH achieve another significant milestone - with their collections in DRI now totalling more than 20,000 unique objects! Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col... @rcahmwales.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @geolsurvie.bsky.social

📣Discovery Programme is delighted to announce the CHERISH Project Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data is now archived securely in the @dri.ie & available for anyone to use! doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... @heritagecouncil.ie @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @interregeurope.bsky.social

Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was destroyed in the medieval period & the broken parts left in a lake... We've now digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til post #6 18/09 for the full shrine skfb.ly/pAHnB

Thank you everyone who joined our #HeritageWeek Coastal Archaeology walk this weekend despite the wet weather! We had a great time exchanging knowledge about this stretch of coast This was grant-aided by @ria.ie, funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social. @heritagecouncil.ie @edwardpollard.bsky.social

Hut site and cairns in the eroding sand dunes on the Doorin Point survey. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

Eroding shell middens recorded surveying around Doorin Point, Donegal. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

We had a fantastic time at Aonach na nDéise - Woodstown Viking Fest yesterday, chatting to visitors about our geophysical surveys at Woodstown & having fun with our 3D models in VR 🤓 Topped off with a visit from MoS Christopher O'Sullivan TD, MoS Mary Butler TD & Mayor of Waterford Cllr Séamus Ryan

Erosion cut through a stream making a new waterfall with the original now dry valley on the townland boundary seen further south. Doorin Point in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Traces of a cart track running along the intertidal zone was recorded on the Doorin Point survey, Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #Riagrants @ria.ie funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Checking out the erratics used as land marks, place names, fossils and rock formations on the foreshore around Doorin Point promontory fort in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social #Riagrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

The Discovery Programme is just 30 people away from 10,000 followers on @sketchfab.bsky.social! To celebrate, we’re offering our 10,000th follower a 3D print of the Newgrange Entrance Stone! For your chance to WIN, head over to Sketchfab and follow us there! sketchfab.com/discoverypro... Good luck🍀

The Discovery Programme would like to welcome our new Archaeological Surveyor & Digital Documentation Officer Cian Hogan. Cian joins us with extensive experience from commercial archaeology, primarily working in geophysics. He will be doing geophysical surveys with our Survey Team. Welcome Cian!

3 weeks today until our exhibition opens at Oranmore Public Library for #HeritageWeek2025! Part of the CHERISH exhibition on #coastal #archaeology will be on display Fri 15 Aug - Fri 22 Aug Oranmore Library is open from 10.30-5pm Tues-Sat (closed 1-2pm) @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Calling all curious minds! Today is #AskAnArchaeologistDay, your chance to ask anything you’ve ever wanted to know about archaeology! 📱 Join the conversation on X, BlueSky, TikTok, and Instagram, just use the hashtag #AskAnArchaeologist or ask your question in the comments to get involved.

For those who caught the @rteone.rte.ie coverage of our work on eroding archaeology on the Copper Coast & would like to know more, check out this tour of Illaunobrick Promontory Fort from our Maritime Archaeologist Dr @edwardpollard.bsky.social: youtu.be/34KhLwKwTHc?... @heritagecouncil.ie

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast! In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

It’s just 3 weeks until #HeritageWeek2025 – the biggest week of the year for learning about Ireland’s archaeology! The theme is #Foundations and once again the Discovery Programme will be doing 4 events for you to come and hear about our findings... @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Whilst in Co. Galway last week, @edwardpollard.bsky.social & @hannahboyd.bsky.social undertook Coastal Zone Assessment on the Maree Peninsula. We walked the coastline, identifying & recording features relating to the maritime heritage of an area @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

This morning, Discovery Programme's Maritime Archaeologist Dr Edward Pollard appeared on @rteradio1.bsky.social talking about the impact of erosion on Ireland's coastal archaeology. You can read the article here: www.rte.ie/news/munster... #CHERISHlegacy @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Great to hear @news.rte.ie covering the topic of climate change and heritage at risk! @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social #CHERISHlegacy

Our #DPdiggers have had a fantastic week onsite at Rathgurreen Ringfort with @michellecomber.bsky.social & the @universityofgalway.bsky.social team. Thank you to Discovery Programme member Joe Fenwick who visited us onsite and snapped these great shots! @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

This week, Discovery Programme staff Susan, Ted and Hannah are onsite at Dr Michelle Comber’s excavations at Rathgurreen, Co. Galway, part of the Maree Project. The team are looking forward to a week of digging, despite yesterday's rain! @heritagecouncil.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Delighted be joined by Rob Shaw of @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social who was on site to do some end of excavation survey and photographic models and took the time to explain everything to our volunteers

It was great to be back in Donegal working on the Doorin Point coastal zone assessment led by @edwardpollard.bsky.social of @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social #climateiretage #archaeology #climateheritage

To everyone celebrating Pride today, we hope you have a great day! 🌈

In our second EAD celebration, today the CHERISH project (@discoveryprogramme.bsky.social, @rcahmwales.bsky.social, @aberuni.bsky.social, @geolsurvie.bsky.social) launches its UAV dataset, now digitally preserved for long-term open access in the Repository! Find out more: dri.ie/news/europea...

Excellent day 2 at Seven Fonts! A great bunch of students who were very engaged and had lots of interesting theories on the purpose of the bullaun or font stones

Day 2 of the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social fieldschool involved introducing students to structured light scanning and photogrammetry @heritagecouncil.ie @rebeccanir.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social

We continued to work with @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social recording bullauns at Seven Fonts and geophysics at Trinity. Thanks to Rob, Rebecca and Susan!

The Discovery Programme survey team were onsite at the Glendalough @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social fieldschool yesterday, sharing their expertise in scanning, photogrammetry & geophys @heritagecouncil.ie @rebeccanir.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social

Yesterday, the Discovery Programme's Geomatics Surveyor @rebeccanir.bsky.social was onsite with students @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social sharing her expertise in digital recording & geophys. @heritagecouncil.ie

My talk on Clonmines from last week is available now in the first session of the Irish historic town atlas seminar www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWGr... @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

New blog from @nmireland.bsky.social on the St Gallen's exhibition, now open to the public. The Discovery Programme collaborated with the NMI to digitally record some of the artefacts now on display as part of the exhibition.

Pleased for having opportunity to talk on the ruins of Clonmines in Co. Wexford yesterday at the Royal Irish Academy seminar on Water, towns and topography. Glad to be able to discuss silting, erosion and traversing the estuary #CHERISHlegacy @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie‬‬

Last chance to apply! Applications close *tomorrow* for the role of Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer with the Discovery Programme. Full details here: tinyurl.com/mtaea57y @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @cifa-ec.bsky.social

Great to be part of the new MAIA COST Action looking at the development, uses and implications of AI & machine learning in archaeology.

With many thanks to our speakers @lisagriffith.bsky.social, @tmartinwalsh.bsky.social, @zenobiewan.bsky.social, Paula Geraghty, Elizabeth Mullins, Lesley Davidson @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social, @kathryncassidy.bsky.social, Jennifer Edmond @dariahie.bsky.social - and keynote @lmhatii.bsky.social!

Many thanks to @unisevilla.bsky.social for hosting the kick off meeting of the new COST Action Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA). Great discussions with interdisciplinary colleagues across Europe exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in archaeology.

Come and work with us! We're looking for an Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer to join our team. Apply by Thursday 22 May Full details here: discoveryprogramme.ie/2025/04/30/j...

Great opportunity for you to join the team here at @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social participate in the survey of many great Irish sites.

The Discovery Programme are at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham today to attend Heritage Horizons, Pathways to the Future: a National Conference by @heritagecouncil.ie Great to be attending this important conference, and to be part of the discussion about issues for heritage now & into the future

Come and work with us! Job Vacancy – Archaeological Surveyor and Digital Documentation Officer Application deadline: 12 noon Thursday 22 May discoveryprogramme.ie/2025/04/30/j... @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social #workwithus

Dr Ger Dowling discusses Irish LIA palisaded enclosures in the @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social monograph Late Iron Age and Roman Ireland (DPR 8) discoveryprogramme.ie/assets/uploa...