Landscape Archaeology research Cluster

Providing an enhanced understanding of the interaction between people and landscape, from prehistoric times to modern day

Staff Research

Dr Stefan Bergh ( Profile)
Dr Carleton Jones ( Profile)
Dr Michelle Comber ( Profile)
Mr Joe Fenwick ( Profile)

Current Projects

• The Archaeology of the Beara peninsula, Co. Cork, in the first millennium AD (Michelle Comber)
• The Brugh na Bóinne Research Project (Joe Fenwick)
• Garranes Ringfort, Co. Cork and its contemporary ringfort landscape (Michelle Comber)
• Knocknarea – a religious focal point in the Neolithic (Stefan Bergh)
• The Mullaghfarna Enclosures – an upland 'settlement’ in a passage tomb context (Stefan Bergh)
• The Roughan Hill Prehistoric Landscape Project (Carleton Jones)

Current Graduate Research

PhD

• Noel McCarthy: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Slieve Gamph: Movement, Place and Patterns
• Danny Burke: The Prehistoric Megalith Building Society of the Burren: Ethnographic Insights From the Khasi People of Meghalaya
• Andrew Whitefield: Sustainable change: temporality and the Neolithic in Western Ireland.
• Kate Leonard: Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland – material culture, practices, landscape setting, and social context.
• Phyllis Mercer: Ritual aspects of Irish portal tombs.
• Ros O Maoldúin: The role of exchange during the Irish Bronze Age: Forming connections between people, ideas and objects.

M.Litt

• Olive Carey: Coolnatullagh - A Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Secular and Ritual Landscape in the Eastern Burren
• Clare Hennigar: The Late Bronze Age Settlement Landscape of the Burren

Completed Graduate Research 2000-2009

PhD

• Roseanne Schot: Landscapes of Uisneach, Co. Westmeath: archaeology, history and legend (2007)

M.Litt

• Killian Driscoll: The early prehistory in the west of Ireland: Investigations into the social archaeology of the Mesolithic (2007)

M.A. in Landscape Archaeology

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