Íochtar Cua and the Stone Rows of Kerry.pdf (original) (raw)

Ogham stones from a souterrain in Rathkenny, Co. Kerry

2016

Since 2012 the Ogham in 3D project at the School of Celtic Studies (DIAS) has been carrying out three-dimensional (3D) surveys of ogham stones and sites in State care (ownership and guardianship) or with a Preservation Order. 2 A list of 73 ogham stones to be targeted for the project was prepared by Fionnbarr Moore, Senior Archaeologist at the National Monuments Service. The majority of these are in County Kerry, which has the highest concentration of ogham stones in the

'Early Bronze Age Graves: 3:20 Tievebane, Co. Donegal, E1055, ' , in M. Cahill & M. Sikora eds., Breaking Ground, Finding Graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, Wordwell in association with the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 1, 2011, 159-161.

O'Brien, W. 2023 Bronze Age stone rows in south-west Ireland.

Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 128, 4-30., 2023

This paper examines the chronology and religious significance of stone rows of the later Bronze Age in Cork and Kerry. The results from four archaeological excavations conducted by the author are presented, along with a review of older investigations. Radiocarbon dates for cremation burial at three sites provide a new insight into the absolute dating of these monuments. The significance of those burials is discussed in respect of the use of stone rows as funerary sites. By the Middle Bronze Age worship of the sun was central to religious beliefs in south-west Ireland, with stone rows one of several monumental expressions of that cult.

‘Knock Iveagh (County Down) and the Inauguration Stone of Mac Aonghusa’, Irish Lives Remembered, Issue 41, Summer, 2018, 22-25.

The paper discusses the inauguration practices of Mac Aonghusa, King of Uíbh Eachach Cobha, which were centered on Knock Iveagh and Lisnacroppan, Co. Down. The likelihood that a stone chair, found in boggy ground close by, is the inauguration chair of Mac Aonghusa is discussed.

A Bronze Age Landscape at Farranastack, Lisselton, Co. Kerry

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society , 2011

This paper presents the results of excavations outside Lisselton in north Co. Kerry where three Bronze Age pits were discovered that appear to represent the troughs of an otherwise destroyed fulacht fiadh. Two further sites-an intact fulacht fiadh and burnt mound materialwere discovered in the immediate environs and indicate a concentration of prehistoric activities at this location.

Stone, Bone & Belonging: The Early Neolithic Portal Tombs at Killaclohane, Co. Kerry

Stone, Bone & Belonging: The Early Neolithic Portal Tombs at Killaclohane, Co. Kerry, 2021

The excavation and conservation of the two portal tombs at Killaclohane, Co. Kerry produced a wealth of evidence relating to the construction and use of the two tombs, from the early Neolithic right into the historic period, both for burial and as important focii in the social, political and cultural landscape of the area for millennia. The results of the excavations and research are outlined and discussed from both a regional and national perspective with detailed analysis of finds from the tombs by recognized experts in their respective fields. Published August 24th 2021