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Projects
- Ballyhoura Hills Project
- CHERISH
- Lake Settlement Project
- Lake Settlement Project – Lough Kinale
- Late Iron Age & Roman Ireland Project
- Medieval Rural Settlement Project
- Medieval Rural Settlement Project: The Dublin Module
- Medieval Rural Settlement Project: The Roscommon Module
- Medieval Rural Settlement: The Carlow Module
- North Munster Research Project
- Tara Research Project
- Western Stone Forts Project
What we do
About us
Resources
- Publications
- Annual Report 2021
- Discovery Programme Board Standing Orders and Reserve Functions
- Discovery Programme Protected Disclosures Policy
- Discovery Programme Hospitality and Gifts Policy
- Discovery Programme Conflict of Interest Policy
- Discovery Programme Code of Conduct for Board and Staff
- Discovery Programme Anti-Fraud Policy
- Discovery Programme Collections Disposal Policy
- Annual Report 2020
- Discovering the Bronze Age – teachers’ notes and teaching suggestions
- Discovering the Bronze Age education pack – worksheets
- Annual Report 2019
- Annual Report 2018
- Funding Service Level Agreement with The Heritage Council, 2019
- Annual Report 2017
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 9 – A Research Miscellany
- Annual Report 2016
- Annual Report 2015
- Tara The Guidebook
- Annual Report 2014
- Discovery Programme Memorandum of Association, 2015
- Annual Report 2013
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 8 – Late Iron Age and ‘Roman’ Ireland
- Dún Aonghasa The Guidebook
- Annual Report 2012
- The Western Stone Forts project, volumes 1 and 2: excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta
- Annual Report 2011
- Annual Report 2010
- Lough Kinale: studies of an Irish lake
- The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, Land-use and Economy
- Annual Report 2009
- Annual Report 2008
- The Ballyhoura Hills Project
- Annual Report 2007
- Annual Report 2006
- Annual Report 2005
- The North Munster Project Volume 2: The prehistoric landscape of North Munster
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 7 – North Roscommon in the Later Medieval Period: An Introduction
- The North Munster Project Volume 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare
- Tara and the Ark of the Covenant
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 6: Project Results
- Foragers, Farmers and Fishers in a Coastal Landscape: An Intercultural Archaelogical Survey of the Shannon Estuary, 1992-7
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 5: Project Results
- The archaeology of medieval rural settlement in Ireland
- The archaeology of lake settlement in Ireland
- Discovering the Bronze Age – Resource Teachers Pack
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 4: Project Results
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 2: Project Results 1993
- Tara: An archaeological survey
- Discovery Programme Reports: No. 1: Project Results 1992
- Videos
- Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2020 -The Boyne to Brodgar initiative: Dr Alison Sheridan
- The Early Medieval Archaeology Project: A model for a period-based approach to a research framework?
- Rónán Swan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland policy on archaeology
- Gendering the Narrative of Research Frameworks – Dr Karen Dempsey (NUI Galway)
- Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research Programme: Addressing research through partnerships
- The Brú na Boinne, World Heritage Site Research Framework a decade on
- A maritime tour of the archaeology of the Copper Coast, Co Waterford, Ireland
- The Cherish Project at Glascarrig Medieval Settlement
- Stories of loss: The promontory fort and climate change
- Glascarrig Medieval Settlement: CHERISH Project research
- Castlemore, Co. Carlow, a Deserted Medieval Settlement
- Discovering Deserted Settlement: Castlemore, Co. Carlow & the Medieval Manor of Forth by Niall Brady
- Digital Resources
News & Events
- [CLOSED] Job Vacancy readvertised: Project Archaeologist for TII ALS Machine Learning Project and ARIADNEplus Project
- 2021 Webinar Series on Research Framework for Archaeology in Ireland
- 3D model of solstice at Newgrange
- Administrative Assistant – Part Time
- Archaeological survey and excavation at promontory forts on Waterford’s Copper Coast
- Archaeology 2025 article in Internet Archaeology
- Call for expressions of interest to serve on the Board of the Discovery Programme Ltd
- Cherish Newsletter
- CHERISH Project – Job Vacancy
- CHERISH Project – Job Vacancy Archaeologist
- CHERISH Project Exhibition now on display in Rush Library, Co. Dublin
- CHERISH Project November Webinars
- CHERISH Project’s online conference: Coastal cultural heritage and climate change
- Climate change and cultural heritage webinars. November 2021
- Corca Dhuibhne 3D project
- CPD: Successfully communicating cultural heritage content using social media and other online sources.
- Digital Documentation: Geomatics and Survey Support Officer – Readvertised (CLOSED)
- Discovery Programme Ezine Issue 1 for 2023 now available
- Discovery Programme Ezine Spring 2022 is now available
- Discovery Programme joins DRI
- Discovery Programme partner in new €4m EU funded project
- Documentation and Survey Archaeologist – Tara (CLOSED)
- Documentation, Survey and Landscape History Archaeologist (CLOSED)
- E-RIHS presentation at EAA
- Finds conservator and find specialists required
- Great British Railways goes to Tara
- Hellfire Club Discoveries
- Heritage Week 2020
- Heritage Week events 2019
- Highlights from the Official Opening of The Discovery Programme’s Offices
- Hill of Tara Conservation Management Plan – Public Consultation
- Information and Discussion session 27 February 2020
- Irish Stone Axe Project: Digital Collection launched
- Job Vacancy – Administrative Assistant
- Job Vacancy – Archivist
- Job Vacancy – Archivist (Part-Time) – Readvertised (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy – CEO of the Discovery Programme
- Job Vacancy – Chief Executive Officer of the Discovery Programme
- Job Vacancy – Collections Manager (Part-Time) (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy – Communications and Outreach Officer
- Job Vacancy – Digital Archivist
- Job Vacancy – Digital Documentation: Geomatics and Survey Support Officer (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy – Project Support Officer Strategic Archaeological Research Frameworks (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy – Lead Project Officer Strategic Archaeological Research Frameworks (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy: Communications and Outreach Officer (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy: Project Archaeologist – Derragh Post-Excavation and Reporting (CLOSED)
- Job Vacancy: Project Archaeologist TII ALS Machine Learning Project / ARIADNEplus Project
- Job Vacancy: Research Archaeologist – CHERISH Project (CLOSED)
- Launch of CHERISH Project Exhibition at dlr LexIcon Library for Heritage Week
- Launch of the Cherish Project
- Making a connection in Heritage Week 2018
- Martin Doody Lecture 2016
- Martin Doody Lecture 2019
- Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2020
- Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2021 – Materialising Power: The Black Pig’s Dyke and Linear Earthworks in Ireland – presented by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
- Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2022 – Cult and Ritual Landscapes in Later European Prehistory: Navan Fort and Ireland’s ‘Royal Sites’
- Minister Humphreys Visits Clones
- New Acting CEO of The Discovery Programme
- New Applications for Leo Swan’s Aerial Photographic Archive
- New appointment to the Discovery Programme Board
- New article on the Corca Dhuibhne 3D project
- New CEO of the Discovery Programme
- New chair of the Discovery Programme board
- New Chairperson for Discovery Programme Board
- New Collaborative LiDAR Project
- New Cultural Heritage Data Programme funded by Creative Ireland
- New Faughan Hill Publication
- New images of the megalithic art at the Dowth Hall Passage Tomb to mark the Winter Solstice
- North Bull Island Beach Clean and Heritage Walk
- Podcast on monastic communities in 12th century Dublin
- Postgraduate workshops Spring 2018
- Postgraduate Workshops Spring 2019
- Publications (July-November)
- Recording of Dún Beag Fort
- Request for Quotation for the Provision of Graphic Design Services for the CHERISH Project Exhibition
- Request for Tender (RFT) for excavation at Ferriter’s Promontory Fort, Co. Kerry
- Research Framework for Archaeology in Ireland: Seminar series
- Results of Strategic Archaeological Research Frameworks Pulse Survey
- RFT: A review of the structure and impact of the Discovery Programme
- Scanning the High Crosses of Iona
- Season’s Greetings from The Discovery Programme
- Strategic Archaeological Research Frameworks Survey
- Strategic archaeological research frameworks workshops
- The Discovery Programme Annual Report 2020 is now available to download
- The Discovery Programme joins EU Project – 5DCulture
- The Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland is using online publication to make our research more accessible to the public.
- Upcoming events Autumn/Winter 2018
- We have a new address