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Burren Field School at Cahermacnaghten

Since 2005, undergraduate and graduate students of NUI, Galway have enjoyed opportunities to work on an archaeological field project in the Burren, Co. Clare. Priority is given to students who are particularly interested in the fieldwork dimensions of the discipline. The focus of the project is the cultural landscape of Cahermacnaghten townland with particular reference to the O’Davoren family, who were brehon lawyers to the O’Loughlin chief of the Burren until the late sixteenth century and ran a legal school in the classical Gaelic tradition on their lands at Cahermacnaghten.

The field school, which has been generously funded by the Royal Irish Academy, provides students with an opportunity to work on a professional research project where they acquire observation and team-building skills and practical hands-on experience of archaeological survey, excavation and post-excavation methods and practices. Among the contributors to past field schools are the contract archaeologist, Richard Clutterbuck, Dr Ingelise Stuijts, palaeoenvironmentalist with the Discovery Programme and Anthony Corns GIS/IT Manager with the Discovery Programme.  

The school has also hosted the student volunteers on the Tulsk excavation of the Medieval Rural Settlement Project (DP). Open-days involving the local community were held during the 2007 and 2008 excavations. The field school will not run this summer but will resume in 2010.

Contact: Dr Elizabeth FitzPatrick
Email: elizabeth.fitzpatricknuigalway.ie

 

    

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