Reports

Discovery Programme Reports 1

Discovery Programme Reports 1 (1993)

Contents:

  • Claire Cotter, ‘Western Stone Fort Project: Interim report’
  • Martin Doody, ‘Ballyhoura Hills Project: Interim report’
  • Eoin Grogan, ‘North Munster Project: Interim report’
  • Conor Newman, ‘Tara Project’ [archaeology]
  • Edel Bhreathnach, ‘Tara Project’ [literary]
  • David Weir, ‘A palynological study in County Louth: Interim report’
Discovery Programme Reports 2

Discovery Programme Reports 2 (1995)

Contents:

  • Claire Cotter, ‘Western Stone Fort Project: Interim report’
  • Martin Doody, ‘Ballyhoura Hills Project: Interim report’
  • Eoin Grogan, ‘North Munster Project: Interim report’
  • Conor Newman, ‘Tara Project’ [archaeology]
  • Edel Bhreathnach, ‘Tara Project’ [literary]
  • David Weir, ‘A palynological study of landscape and agricultural development in County Louth from the second millennium BC to the first millennium AD: final report’

Discovery Programme Reports 3 (1995)

Discovery Programme Reports 3 (1995) was actually published in monograph form as: Edel Bhreathnach, Tara: a select bibliography (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy for the Discovery Programme 1995). (See details in monograph section)

Discovery Programme Reports 4

Discovery Programme Reports 4 (1996)

Contents:

  • Claire Cotter, ‘Western Stone Fort Project: Interim report’
  • Martin Doody, ‘Ballyhoura Hills Project: Interim report’
  • Eoin Grogan, ‘North Munster Project: Interim report’
  • Paul Synnott, ‘Geographical Information Systems – an archaeological application’
  • Edel Bhreathnach, ‘Cultural identity and Tara from Lebor Gabála Érenn to George Petrie’
Discovery Programme Reports  5

Discovery Programme Reports 5 (1999)

Contents:

  • Edel Bhreathnach, ‘Authority and supremacy in Tara and its hinterland c. 950-1200’
  • Tom Condit and Aidan O’Sullivan, ‘Landscapes of movement and control: interpreting prehistoric hillforts and fording places on the River Shannon’
  • Claire Cotter, ‘Western Stone Fort Project: Interim report’
  • Martin Doody, ‘Ballyhoura Hills Project: Interim report’
  • Eoin Grogan, Aidan O’Sullivan, Finola O’Carroll and Ines Hagen ‘Knocknalappa, Co. Clare: a reappraisal’
  • Eoin Grogan, ‘Excavations at Mooghaun South 1995: Interim report’
  • Barry Masterson, ‘Archaeological applications of modern survey techniques’
Discovery Programme Reports  5

Discovery Programme Reports 6 (2002)

Contents:

  • Joe Fenwick and Conor Newman, ‘Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9’
  • Helen Roche, ‘Excavations at Ráith na Ríg, Tara, Co. Meath, 1997’, with contributions from Peter Crew, Thilo Rehren, Finbar McCormick, Edel Bhreathnach, Barra Ó Donnabháin, Brenda Collins and Clare Ellis
Discovery Programme Reports  5

Discovery Programme Reports 7 (2005)

Contents:

  • Niall Brady, ‘The Medieval Rural Settlement Project: an overview for 2002-2004’
  • Rory McNeary and Brian Shanahan, ‘Medieval settlement, society and land use in the Roscommon area, an introduction’
  • Ann Connon, ‘Vernacular Gaelic sources for rural settlement in medieval Roscommon 1100-1650 AD; a preliminary study’
  • Niall Brady, Ann Connon, Anthony Corns, Rory McNeary, Brian Shanahan and Robert Shaw, ‘A survey of the priory and graveyard at Tulsk, Co. Roscommon’
  • Niall Brady and Paul Gibson, ‘The earthwork at Tulsk, Co. Roscommon: topographical and geophysical survey and preliminary excavations’

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