Core Publications

Brady, N. Discovering Irish Medieval Landscapes (Discovery Programme, 2003).

Discovery Programme Reports 7 (2005). Sub-titled: ‘Introduction to North Roscommon’

Separate Discovery Programme monographs are planned on each of the four project modules. The working titles of these volumes are presented below, in their anticipated order of publication, and citing the primary authors responsible for each volume.

Murphy, M. and Potterton, M. , The Dublin region in the middle ages: settlement, land-use and economy

Brady, N. and Murphy, M., A manor in medieval Ireland: the archaeology and history of Castlemore, Co. Carlow

Shanahan, B., Connon, A. and McNeary, R., The archaeology and history of a Gaelic Irish lordship: landholding, settlement and rural economy in the Uí Chonchobhair lands of North Roscommon c.1100-1650.

Brady, N., A Gaelic lordly centre in medieval Ireland: the archaeology and history of Tulsk, Co. Roscommon.

Ancillary Publications

Brady, N., ‘Mills in medieval Ireland: looking beyond design’, in Steve Walton (ed.), Wind and Water in the Middle Ages. Fluid technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), 39-68.

Brady, N., ‘Personifying the Gael: something of a challenge for archaeologists’, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies, 1 (2006), 8-26.

Brady, N., McNeary, R., and Shanahan, B., 'A new study of land enclosure and settlement in north Roscommon' in the Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 10 (2006), 99-104.

Brady, N. and O’Conor, K., ‘The later medieval usage of crannogs in Ireland’, Proceedings of Ruralia V (2005), 127-136.

Corns, A. McNeary, R. Shanahan, B., and Shaw, R., 'Rathcroghan and Carnfree, Co. Roscommon (Ireland)', in Bartels, M.R. del Árbol and H. van Londen and A. Orejas (eds), Landmarks - Profiling Europe's Historic Landscapes, (Museum Bochum, 2008), pp 31-42.

McNeary, R. and Shanahan, B., ‘Settlement and Enclosure in a Medieval Gaelic Lordship: a case study from the territory of the O’Conors of North Roscommon’ in R. Compatangelo-Soussignan, J-R. Bertrand, J. Chapman, and P-Y. Laffont (eds), Landmarks and socio-economic systems: constructing of pre-industrial Landscapes and their Perception by contemporary Societies (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008), pp 187-97.

Murphy, M., ‘The profits of lordship. Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk and the lordship of Carlow 1270-1306’ in Linda Doran and James Lyttleton, (eds.) Lordship in medieval Ireland: image and reality. (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007), pp 75-98.

Murphy, M., ‘Tullow from medieval manor to market town’ in T. McGrath (ed.), Carlow History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), pp 235-257.

Murphy, M. and O’Conor, K., ‘Castles and Deer parks in Anglo-Norman Ireland’, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies, 1 (2006), 53-72.

Murphy, M. and Potterton, P., ‘Investigating living standards in medieval Dublin and its region’ in Sean Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin VI (2005), 224-256