ritual and place research Cluster

Exploring the role and context of places of ritual significance in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland

Staff Research

Dr Stefan Bergh ( Profile)
Conor Newman ( Profile)
Prof. John Waddell ( Profile)
Joe Fenwick ( Profile)
Carleton Jones ( Profile)

Current Projects

• ’Royal’ Landscapes from Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages (Conor Newman)
• Knocknarea – a religious focal point in the Neolithic (Stefan Bergh)
• Turlough Hill, Co. Clare: A prehistoric meeting place (Stefan Bergh)
• AMS dating of antler/bone pin material from Carrowmore megalithic complex, Co. Sligo (Stefan Bergh and Robert Hensey)

• Excavation of the Cl 153 atypical court tomb on Roughan Hill (Parknabinnia), Co. Clare (Carleton Jones)

Current Graduate Research

PhD

• 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.

Completed Graduate Research 2000-2009

PhD

• Robert Hensey: Ritual and belief in the Passage Tomb tradition in Ireland (2010)
• Roseanne Schot: Landscapes of Uisneach, Co. Westmeath: archaeology, history and legend  (2008)
• Gerard Dowling: The Architecture of Power: An Examination of the Concept of Closely Spaced Multivallation in Ireland (2009)

MLitt and MA

• Meave Moriarty: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Blackwater Valley, County Meath (M.Litt. 2006)
• Padraig Clancy: A Landscape Study of the Prehistoric Monuments on the Curragh, Co. Kildare (M.A. 2001)

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