kieran o'conor

Lecturer (currently on sabbatical 2013)

The countryside and frontier in medieval Ireland

Biography

Dr Kieran O’Conor received his PhD from University College Cardiff (1993).  He worked with the Discovery Programme, Dublin, and with the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, before joining the Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway, in 2000.

Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London; Fellow, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; Member, Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland; Member, Château Gaillard; Member, Ruralia.

Office: ARC213, Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway.
Tel 091 493820
Fax 091 525700   
E-mail kieran.d.oconornuigalway.ie

Awards/Distinctions

•  University of Wales Scholarship (1987-1990).

Research

• Gaelic and Anglo-Norman Ireland 1100–1350
• Rural settlement across medieval Europe
• Castles in their landscapes

Current Writing Projects

• Timber castles in Ireland

Current Graduate Supervision

Ph.D.

• Arnaud. de Volders: The archaeology of the Cistercian monastic grange in later medieval Ireland and its place in the landscape: case studies from the Lordship of Leinster, c. 1150-1540
• Caitríona Gleeson: Archaeological evidence for social differentiation in the medieval Irish town
• Theresa McDonald: Booleying in Achill, Achill Beg and Corraun
• Paul Murphy ( Arts Faculty Fellowship): A landscape study of the Anglo-Norman boroughs of Clonmines, Bannow and Old Ross
• Brian Shanahan: The archaeology of Landscape, culture and community in Ireland: case studies in theory and method from County Roscommon
• Eugene Costello: Transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1500-1900 AD

M.Litt.

• Bri Greene: Castleroche: an interdisciplinary study.

M.A. in Landscape Archaeology

• D. Milner: The evolution of Monaghan town: its origins and development from prehistory until c. 1650
• E. Stark: An archaeological survey and landscape study of Cloondaduv Castle, Co. Galway.

Completed Graduate Supervision

Ph.D.

• Fiona Beglane: Parks and deer-hunting, evidence from medieval Ireland
• Rory Sherlock: The Social Environment of the Irish Tower House (2008)
• Colin Breen: The Archaeology of Cultural Landscape History of Bantry and Beara 1200-1650 (2004)
• Jacqui O'Hara:  A Landscape Archaeology of Later Medieval Fermanagh (2009)
• Miriam Clyne (Lady Gregory Fellow): Irish Medieval Premonstratensian Monasteries and their connection with Europe. (2010)
• Christina Fredengren: Crannogs - (Co-supervisor with the Department of Archaeology, Stockholm University, Sweden). (2002)

M. Litt

• Matthew Logue: The Castle of Greencastle, Co. Donegal (2006)
• Daniel Tietzch-Tyler: The value of archaeological reconstruction drawing to the archaeologist and non-specialist. (2010)

M. A. (Research)

• Margaret Murphy: Roscommon Castle (2002)

M. A. in Medieval Studies

• Daniel Curley: Dundonnell, Co. Roscommon
• Erin Britton: Fiddaun Castle: An O'Shaughnessy Tower House (2008)

M. A. in Landscape Archaeology

• L. O'Rourke: The medieval and post-medieval landscape of Lough Scur, Co. Leitrim
• E. McElroy: The siting fo seigneurial mott-and-bailey castles in the western part of the de Lacy lordship of Meath
• K Garenani:  Preservation and Presentation: A Study of the Management of Archaeological Landscapes in the Republic of Ireland. (2010)
• S. Chaffman: A Landscape Study of the Sitting of Tower Houses (2009)
• J. Callan: The Sitting of Motte Castles in Anglo-Norman Oriel (2009)
• K. Harrington: A Landscape of Power and Politics in South Roscommon 1590-1700 - a construction of place (2007)
• J. McDermott: Late Medieval Castles in north-west Breifne (2007)
• J. Spollen: A Landscape Study of Athlone: its origins and development (2007)
• K. Finneran: The Sitting and Morphology of Bastioned Artillery Forts in Sligo and Roscommon (2005)
• E. Barrett: The Archaeology of Inishtirra Island, County Roscommon (2004)
• A. Burke: The Archaeological Landscape of Derryhiveny Castle, Co. Galway (2004)
• J. Fenn: Reconstructing the Morphology of the Caput of the Manor of Callan during the Anglo-Norman Period c. 1190 - c. 1350 (2004)
• P. Murphy: The Anglo-Norman Borough of Clonmines, Co. Wexford (2004)
• E. C. Reetz: The Elite Landscape of Leamaneh Castle, Co. Clare (2003)

Accepting Graduate research students in the following areas:

          Anglo-Norman Ireland
          High medieval Gaelic Ireland
          Medieval rural settlement and agriculture
          Castles

Teaching

• AR325 Minor Dissertation in Archaeology (3BA)
• AR332  The Development of the Castle in Medieval Europe (3BA)
• AR246 Castles, Colonists and Crannogs (2BA)
• AR115 Celts, Vikings and Normans (1BA)
• MA in Landscape Archaeology
• Galway Diploma in Archaeology
• Roscommon Diploma in Archaeology

Administration

• Postgraduate Committee
• Curriculum Committee
• Seminar Committee
• Senior tutor, 1BA
• Examination officer 1BA
• 1BA advisor
• Archaeology Society Liaison Officer

External Responsibilities

• Member of the Board of the Heritage Council
• Committee member, Friends of the National Collections of Ireland
• Member, Comité Permanent Des Colloques du Château Gaillard
• Member, Advisory Panel, Irish Battlefields Project (Dept. of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government)
• Committee Member, Co. Sligo Heritage Forum - Archaeology Working Group
• Archaeological Advisor, Ardcarne Graveyards Committee

Publications

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O'Conor, K.

• 2013 (with B. Shanahan) Roscommon Abbey - A Visitor's Guide. Roscommon.
• 2011 Fortifications in the North (1200-1600). In M. Carver and J. Klapste (Eds) The archaeology of medieval Europe. Volume 2 - twelfth to sixteenth centuries, 243-68. Aarhus.
• 2010 (main author, with N. Brady, A. Connon and C. Fidalgo-Romo) 'The Rock of Lough Cé, Co. Roscommon.  In T. Finan (ed.)  Medieval Lough Cé: History, Archaeology and Landscape, 15-40. Dublin
• 2010 (with C. Parker) 'Anglo-Norman settlement in Longford'.  In M. Morris and F. O'Ferrall (eds) Longford: history and society, 75-98. Dublin.
• 2008 Castle studies in Ireland – the way forward. Château Gaillard 23, 329-39.
• 2008 (with M. Murphy) Roscommon Castle – A Visitor’s Guide. Roscommon.
• 2007 English settlement and change in Roscommon during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
  In A. Horning, R. Ó Baoill, C. Donnelly and P. Logue (eds.), The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland, 1550-1850,  
  189-204.
• 2007 (with J. De Meulemeester) Fortifications. In J. Graham-Campbell and M. Valor (eds.), The Archaeology 
  of Medieval  Europe, Volume I. Eighth to  Twelfth Centuries AD, 316-41. Aarhus.
• 2006 (with M. Murphy) Castles and deerparks in medieval Ireland. Eolas: The  Journal of the American Society of Irish 
  Medieval Studies I, 53-73.
• 2005 Gaelic lordly settlement in 13th - and 14th - century Ireland. In I. Holm, S. Innselet, and I. Øye (eds.), 'Utmark' - 
  The Outfield as Industry and Ideology  in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, 209-21, University of Bergen, Bergen.
• 2005 (with N. Brady) The later medieval usage of crannogs in Ireland. Ruralia   5, 127-36.
• 2004 Medieval Rural Settlement in Munster. Barryscourt Lecture No. VII, Kinsale.
• 2003 (with Manning, C.) Clonmacnoise Castle. In King, H. (ed), Clonmacnoise  Studies - Volume 2, 137-65. Bray.
• 2002. Motte castles in Ireland: permanent fortresses, residences and manorial centres. Château Gaillard 20, 173-82.
• 2002. Housing in later medieval Gaelic Ireland. Ruralia 4, 197-206.
• 1998. The Archaeology of Medieval Rural Settlement in Ireland, Discovery Programme Monograph 3, Dublin.

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