Mr John Gormley TD, Minister of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.launched the publication of The Ballyhoura Hills Project by Martin Doody, published by Wordwell. A reception was held on Thursday, 13 November 2008 in The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, to mark the publication of the book. The Ballyhoura Hills Project was initiated in 1992, under the directorship of the author, to research some of the principal questions of the Discovery Programme in a confined but diverse geographical area, which was roughly centred on the Ballyhoura Hills, a series of steep hills at Seafin. A broad research strategy, combining extensive ground and aerial survey, test excavation and more detailed excavation at some sites, was followed. The study area is situated on the Cork/Limerick county border and adjacent areas of west Tipperary and contains three distinct landscape regions.