Leather bottle • Leitrim This leather bottle or flask was found deep in a bog in Cloonclose, County Leitrim. From the decoration, it is believed to date to the early medieval period, making the bottle at least a thousand years old. #Ireland ##SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #EarlyMedieval

Wholly agree with this. The National Museum needs to be properly supported.

Although these shitehawks seem to go on about Ancient Greece and Rome, they obviously haven't paid much attention to the parts about hubris, and where that leads to.

Beautiful morning here in South Tipperary 🔆

Castellated stone folly tower (c1860) at Killoran House, Tipperary, on a hill some distance to front of the house Currently house being renovated by Calx Restoration & it's intended it will form a training facility for conservation & repair of historic buildings #builtheritage #traditionalskills

Dunluce Castle • Antrim Perched on a rocky outcrop high above the sea, Dunluce Castle is certainly one of the highlights of Antrim's spectacular Causeway Coast.

Hello—Is a River Alive? is published in paperback in the UK today. It’s dedicated to the rivers & their guardians. Thanks to all who’ve supported its journey into the world: read it, talked about it, got in touch. It’s @waterstones.bsky.social book of the month. “Hope is the thing with rivers…”

Cork we need to talk

An ancient and unknowable ruin, still somehow standing despite the ravages of countless years... ...and Kilmogue Portal Tomb. We had a misty but marvellous day's fieldwork in the Lingaun Valley today. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

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The spiral staircase of Cahir Castle, Tipperary. I wouldn't fancy having to go down these after quaffing a few medieval ales! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Medieval #IrelandTravel

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday email newsletter, we visit Clondalkin to see one of Ireland's oldest, and finest, round towers. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #DiscoverIreland

Tobar Cholm Cille, or St Colmcille’s Holy Well, is set high on the hills above the beautiful and historic valley of Glencolmcille in County Donegal. It forms part of the Turas or pilgrimage route that traverses the valley in honour of the famous saint Colmcille (also known as Columba). #Ireland

Altar Wedge Tomb • West Cork This small wedge tomb on the coast of West Cork dates to c.2500 BC. Thousands of years after it was first built, this ancient monument took on new spiritual meaning when it was used as a mass rock during the time of the Penal Laws, when Catholic worship was forbidden

We have a new episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast out today! I was delighted to be joined by Professor John Waddell, who discusses how our understanding of the Celts has developed, Celtoscepticism, the politics of the past and present, and how the story of the Celts is told today #Archaeology 🏺

The 2026 Archaeology Research Grant Scheme is now open until 25 March. Apply for around €5,000 in funding. In 2025, RIA ARG grantee Kate Lavender-Duncan mapped and surveyed sites across the Burren, revealing a whole class of monuments missing from official records. www.ria.ie/grants/archa...

I'm delighted to be lecturing at Oriel Môn/Anglesey Gallery in March about the incredible Iron Age remains on the island, including about recent work with @richardosgood.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach & our #RCAHMW recording of coastal forts. See you there! www.orielmon.org/en/events/dr...

Appropriate to the fate of many people on a stag do in Dublin. Go too big on day one, and end up being quietly removed to avoid embarrassment.

Fellow gentlemen over 40 – what do you do with all those long, robust, powerful eyebrow hairs? Do you leave them growing to turn into antennae? Do you use them to string tiny banjos or violins? Do you set them aside to clone giant versions of yourself?

Errigal Truagh in County Monaghan was dedicated to St Meallán, a little known 7th century saint. The gables and low sections of the medieval parish church still survive. The atmospheric historic graveyard has a number of 18th-century headstones carved in a distinctive South Ulster style. #Ireland

Today we are sharing another of our 3D models from the Medieval Mile Museum, #Kilkenny. This carved slab dates from the late 13th or early 14th century and commemorates Helen, the wife of William de Armayl. skfb.ly/pGRuy

Great podcast: The Bar of Ireland explores facts around Government's proposed changes to environmental judicial review process. Guest Phoebe Duvall, An Taisce's Senior Planning & Policy Officer, outlines direct impacts to public's access for environmental justice. on.soundcloud.com/qwXfKBywYLZs...

Toibreacha an tSruthail (Struel Wells): very atmospheric today. Tranquil, too. The earliest written link to Patrick records him spending a night in one of the wells, singing psalms and spiritual songs. By the Middle Ages, the site had become an important pilgrimage site. #LeathCathail #SpéirGhorm

The hills that surround the Wicklow town of Baltinglass are crowned with a remarkable complex of hillforts. Evidence that this area was a place of importance in prehistory. This photo shows the giant earthworks of Rathcoran Hillfort. #HillfortsWednesday #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Really looking forward to this! There's been some really exciting work on hillforts over the last few years, and it'll be great to hear about those discoveries at Brusselstown Ring

Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb • Dublin Located in the Glencullen Adventure Park, on the Dublin Mountains Way, this wedge tomb at Ballyedmonduff is one of the finest examples of its type in Ireland. It dates to around c.2500 BC, and it is one of a number of wedge tombs in the Dublin Mountains #Ireland

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

The latest episode of Transatlantic is live! Thanks to Kevin Moore for joining us to chat about the growing Irish Catholic community in New York in the years following American Independence, and some of their successes and setbacks: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...

In today's edition of MonumentMonday, we explore the atmospheric ruin of a medieval priory on the banks of the River Blackwater in County Cork. Each edition of our spam-free, weekly newsletter features one of our favourite monuments to visit, along with updates about our work and more. #Ireland

The South Cross at Kells is also known as the Cross of St Patrick and St Columba, as it bears a Latin inscription dedicating it to the two saints. Dating to c.900AD, it is a fine example of an early Irish high cross, intricately decorated with scenes from the Old and New Testament. #Ireland

Dunhill Castle • Waterford Fancy a nice walk this weekend? Try the Anne Valley in Waterford, a beautiful place full of history, like the ruins of Dunhill Castle. The earliest castle here was constructed by an Anglo-Norman knight, Robert le Poer in 1200. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Waterford

These beautifully decorated bronze scabbard plates were part of an important hoard of Iron Age objects found in a bog at Lisnacrogher near Ballymena, Antrim, in the 19th century. You can see them in the brilliant Ulster Museum, Belfast.

This fragment of the upper shaft of a cross can be found in St Flannan’s Cathedral in Killaloe, Clare. Though small, the fragment bears an interesting story. One face has the only known runic inscription on a Christian monument in Ireland: Þorgrímr reisti kross þenna ‘Thorgrím erected this cross’

Petition to bring back 'It's a Royal Knockout', only with a little bit of Battle Royale / Running Man style. If you're the one to bring down Andrew then you get his gaff and cash.

The King's Fort • Derry This is one of the best preserved ringforts in Ulster. It likely dates to some time between the 6th—12th century. It is situated on the southern slopes of Benbradagh, commanding spectacular views over Drumsurn in County Derry. #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Archaeology #Derry

Always a little surprising how much you're expected to do for free if you work in heritage.

We spent a great day yesterday on a hilltop littered with hillforts! On White Hill, south of Biggar, Scotland, there are palisades, earthen ramparts, and one of the strangest forts I've seen in a while - an 11 hectare elongated enclosure overlooking a group of possible henges #HillfortsWednesday

On Saturday 21 March the Museum of Liverpool is hosting a conference as the award winning archaeology exhibition Treasure: History Unearthed comes to an end. #archaeology Find out more and book tickets here www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

Riasc • Dingle Peninsula Excavations at this early monastery led by Tom Fanning revealed the foundations of clocháns, a small oratory, and 42 lintelled graves. The site is perhaps best known for its decorated cross slabs, including the Reask Stone. #Ireland #Wildatlanticway #SpéirGhorm

I'm so done with this generation of politicians.

I've watched the first three episodes of #SmallProphets and enjoying it so far. Though I was pretty biased from the start as Michael Palin's in it.

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we visit the Cavan Burren to find a stunning landscape that is full of echoes of the past. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology #Cavan #DiscoverIreland

Medieval frescoes • Clare Island Abbey • Mayo The island's small Cistercian abbey church has some of Ireland's best surviving medieval paintings, depicting dragons and fantastical beasts. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Medieval #IrishHistory #Archaeology

*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some overseas. When do we start saying enough is enough?? www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/cal... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

We had a fabulous, if frosty, morning for our Tuatha Tour of Newgrange with Professor Muiris O'Sullivan. We discussed Neolithic Ireland, the monumental landscape of the Boyne Valley, megalithic art, and more! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology #DiscoverIreland

Early Cross Slab • Clonmacnoise • Offaly • 7th—9th century There are over 700 examples of cross slabs known to have associations with Clonmacnoise, making it the largest assemblage known from either Ireland or Britain. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Loved chatting about Skellig Michael! Grateful for the opportunity.

There's a new edition of @thecallya.bsky.social 's The Call out today. If you don't know it, this is an incredible read - a modern horror where Ireland has been isolated from the world by the sidhe, uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...