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PRU Publications (1986 onwards; PRU contributors in bold)

For publications other than pollen see School of Geography and Archaeology web pages

Overland, A. and O’Connell, M. 2013. Palaeoecological investigations. In: Jackman, N., Moore, C. and Rynne, C. (eds). The mill at Kilbegly. An archaeological investigation on the route of the M6 Ballinasloe to Athlone national road scheme. NRA National Scheme Monographs 12, (Chapter 4; 63– 85) The National Roads Authority, Dublin (in press; page numbers may alter in final document).

Ghilardi, B. and O’Connell, M. 2013 . Early Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics with particular reference to the 8.2 ka event: pollen and macrofossil evidence from a small lake in western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22, 99–114. [DOI: 10.1007/s00334-012-0367-x]

Ghilardi, B. and O’Connell, M. 2012. Fine-resolution pollen-analytical study of Holocene woodland dynamics and land use in north Sligo, Ireland. Boreas, DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00292.x

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2012. Prehistoric farming in western Ireland: pollen analysis at Caheraphuca, Co. Clare. In: Delaney, S., Bayley, D., Lyne, E. McNamara, S., Nunan, J. and Molloy, K. (eds). Borderlands. Archaeological investigations along the route of the M18 Gort to Crusheen road scheme. NRA Scheme Monographs 9. National Roads Authority, Dublin, pp. 109–122.

Overland, A. and O’Connell, M. 2012. Past environment and land use on Skellig Michael in the monastic period — the pollen analytical evidence. In: Bourke, E., Hayden, A.R., Lynch, A. (eds). Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry: the monastery and South Peak. Archaeological stratigraphic report: excavations 1986–2010, pp. 421–423. http://www.worldheritageireland.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/SkelligMichaelExcavations-02.pdf; accessed 1 Feb 2012).

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2011. Boom and bust or sustained development? Fossil pollen records and new insights into Bronze Age farming in County Clare. In: Conran, S., Danaher, E. and Stanley, M. (Eds). Past times, changing fortunes. Proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on the national road schemes, August 2010. National Roads Authority monograph series 8. National Roads Authority, Dublin, pp. 57–71.

Overland, A. and O’Connell, M. 2011. New insights into late Holocene farming and woodland dynamics in western Ireland with particular reference to the early medieval horizontal watermill at Kilbegly, Co. Roscommon. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 163, 205-226. [doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.10.008]

O’Connell, M. 2010. Presentation, appreciation and conservation of liminal landscapes: challenges from an Irish perspective. In: Bloemers, J.H.F., Kars, H., van der Valk, A. and Wijnen, M. (Eds.). The cultural landscape and heritage paradox. Protection and development of the Dutch archaeological-historical landscape and its European dimension. University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam, pp. 339–350 (Section IV, Chapter 10).

Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. 2010. Late Holocene land-use and vegetation dynamics in an upland karst region based on pollen and coprophilous fungal spore analyses: an example from the Burren, western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 19, 409–426. [DOI 10.1007/s00334-009-0235-5; Jan 2010; 18 pp.].

Krzywinski, K., O’Connell, M. and Küster, H. (eds). 2009. Cultural Landscapes of Europe. Fields of Demeter, Haunts of Pan. Aschenbeck Media, Bremen, 217 pp.
German edition (2009):  Europäische Kulturlandschaften. Wo Demeter ihre Felder hat und Pan zu Hause ist.
Norwegian edition (2010): Europas kulturlandskaper. Pans rike, Demeters åkrer.

Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. 2009. Fresh insights into long-term changes in flora, vegetation, land use and soil erosion in the karstic environment of the Burren, western Ireland. Journal of Ecology 97, 1083–1100 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01533.x]

Overland, A. and O’Connell, M. 2009. Palaeoecological investigations in the Barrees Valley. In: O’Brien, W. (ed.) Local worlds. Early settlement landscapes and upland farming in south-west Ireland. Collins Press, Cork, pp. 285-322.

Overland, A. and O’Connell, M. 2008. Fine-spatial paleoecological investigations towards reconstructing late Holocene environmental change, landscape evolution and farming activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, southwestern Ireland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 1, 37-73.

Molloy, K. 2008. Pollen analytical investigations towards the reconstruction of the local environment and land use at Chancellorsland. In: Doody, M. (Ed.). The Ballyhoura Hills Project (Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7). Wordwell, Bray, pp. 479-507.

Molloy, K. 2008. Palaeoenvironment. In: Doody, M. (Ed.). The Ballyhoura Hills Project (Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7). Wordwell, Bray, pp. 23-30.

Dillon, M., Newman, C., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2008. Environment and ritual in a late Iron Age context: an example from Raffin Fort, Co. Meath, Ireland. In: Charcoals from the past: cultural and palaeoenvironmental implications (eds G. Fiorentino and D. Magri). BAR International Series, 1807, 75-92.

Holmes, J., Jones, R., Haas, J.N, McDermott, F., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2007. Multi-proxy evidence for Holocene lake-level and salinity changes at An Loch Mór, a coastal lake on the Aran Islands, western Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 2436-2462.

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2007. Fresh insights into long-term environmental change on the Aran Islands based on palaeoecological investigations of lake sediments from Inis Oírr. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 59, 1-17.

Newman, C., O’Connell, M., Dillon, M. and Molloy, K. 2007. Interpretation of charcoal and pollen data relating to a late Iron Age ritual site in eastern Ireland: a holistic approach. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 16, 349-365. (published Online in 2006)

Molloy, K. 2007. Reconstruction of past vegetation history on Clare Island: palaeoenvironmental investigations undertaken in conjunction with the archaeological investigations. In: Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.). New survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, pp. 297-310

O’Connell, M. 2007. European cultural landscapes: a view from Ireland informed by PAN (EU 5fp network). Kulturlandschaft. Administrativ – digital – touristisch (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt: Initativen zum Umweltschutz, Vol. 67). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp. 113-130.

Schettler, G., Romer, R.L., O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2006. Holocene climatic variations and postglacial sea-level rise geochemically recorded in the sediments of the brackish karst lake An Loch Mór, western Ireland. Boreas, 35, 674-692.

Molloy, K. 2006. Palaeoenvironmental investigations at Rinnaraw Cashel/Byre-house site, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal (pp. 115-120). In: Comber, M. 2006. Tom Fanning’s excavations at Rinnaraw Cashel, Portnablagh, Co. Donegaly. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 106C, 67-124
 

Molloy, K. 2005. Holocene vegetation and land-use history at Mooghaun, south-east Clare, with particular reference to the Bronze Age. In: Grogan E. (ed.), The North Munster Project, Vol. 1. The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Discovery Programme Monographs 6. Wordwell, Bray, pp 255-301.

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2005. Native woodland composition and dynamics: a long-term perspective based on a Holocene pollen profile from Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland. In: Doyle, C. and Little, D. (eds) Ireland’s Native Woodlands (on CD-ROM). Woodlands of Ireland, Dublin, pp 20-47.
 

Hunt, J., Chambers, F., O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2004. Developing the tephrochronology of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland. Quaternary Newsletter, No. 104, 49-51.

Chambers, F.M., Daniell, J.R.G., Hunt, J.B., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2004. Tephrostratigraphy of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, W. Ireland: implications for Holocene tephrochronology in the northeastern Atlantic region. The Holocene, 14, 703-720.

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2004. Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the karstic environment of Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland: pollen analytical evidence evaluated in the light of the archaeological record. Quaternary International, 113, 41-64.

Diefendorf, A.F., Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., Martini, A.M. and O'Connell, M. 2003. High-resolution Holocene climate variability at Lough Inchiquin, western Ireland: evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotope values of lacustrine sediment. Conference Proceedings, The Geological Society of America, 2003. Seattle Annual Meeting (Nov 2–5, 2003).
 

Fuller, J.L. 2002. Past vegetation and land-use dynamics in Mayo Abbey, central Mayo. Archaeology Ireland, 16 (3), 20-23.

Huang, C.C. 2002. Holocene landscape development and human impact in the Connemara uplands, western Ireland. Journal of Biogeography, 29, 153-165.

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2002. Neolithic impact in Ireland and its environmental contexts. Terra Nostra, 2002/6, 250-257. 

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2001. Farming and woodland dynamics in Ireland during the Neolithic. Biology and Environment (Proc R Ir Acad , Ser B), 101, 99-128.

O’Connell, M. 2001. Neolithic impact in Atlantic Europe: timing, intensity and environmental contexts. Monsoon 3, 78-82. (Extended Abstract, ALDP Meeting, ’Environmental Changes and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations’, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; Nov. 2001).

McCarthy, T.K. Barbiero, R., Doherty, D., Cullen, P., Ashe, P., O’Connell, M., Guiry, M., Sheehy-Skeffington, M., King, J., O’Connor, B. 2001. Investigation of eutrophication processes in the littoral zones of western Irish lakes. Final Report. Environmental Protection Agency, Wexford. 333 pp.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K. and McMahon, H. 2001. Reconstructing prehistoric farming activity and human impact at a fine spatial resolution: palaeoecological investigations at Mooghaun, Co. Clare, western Ireland. In: Schauer, P. (ed.), Beiträge zur Siedlungsarchäologie und zum Landschaftswandel. Regensburger Beiträge zur Prähistorischen Archäologie, 7, 161-186.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Leuenberger, M., Eicher, U. Saarinen, T., Schettler, G., McDermott, F., van der Plicht, J., Chambers, F.M., Daniell, J.R.G., Hunt, J.B., van Geel, B., Haas, J.N. and Dalton, C. 2001. Evidence from the TIMECHS project for climatic instability during the early Holocene at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. Terra Nostra, 2001, 159-161.

O’Connell, M. 2001. Neolithic impact in Atlantic Europe: timing, intensity and environmental contexts. Monsoon 3, 78-82. (Extended Abstract, ALDP Meeting, ’Environmental Changes and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations’, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; Nov. 2001).

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Saarinen, T., Roberts, M., McDermott, F., Hawkesworth, C.J., Barton, K., Leuenberger, M., Eicher, U., Chambers, F.M., Hunt, J.B., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., Schettler, G., Dalton, C., Battarbee, R.W., Dörfler, W., Usinger, H. and Haas, J.N. 2000. Timing and mechanisms of Holocene climate change in NW Europe (TIMECHS): multidisciplinary investigations of calcareous, lake sediments from Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, W. Ireland. In: Proceedings of European Climate Science Conference, Vienna (19-23, October 1998). CD-ROM, EU Commission, Brussels.

Huang, C.C. and O’Connell, M. 2000. Recent land-use and soil-erosion history within a small catchment in Connemara, western Ireland: evidence from lake sediments and documentary sources. Catena, 41, 293-335.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Saarinen, T., Schettler, G., McDermott, F., Hawkesworth, C.J., Huang, Y., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Leuenberger, M., Chambers, F.M., Hunt, J.B., Daniell, J., van der Plicht, J., Heijnis, H., van Geel, B., Barton, K., Haas, J.N. and Dalton, C. 2000. Human impact and climate change at the western fringe of Europe: multidisciplinary studies of calcareous sediments from An Loch Mór, Aran Islands, W. Ireland. Terra Nostra, 2000, 77-81.

Molloy, K., Fuller, J. and Conaghan, J. 2000. Vegetation and land-use history on High Island: the results of preliminary investigations. In: White Marshall, J. and Rourke G.D. High Island. An Irish Monastery in the Atlantic, Townhouse, Dublin, pp. 233-243.

Feehan, J., 2000. Fraoch Mór Mháigh Rechet: The Great Heath of Maryborough, Dúchas, Dublin (palaeoenvironmental contribution by M. O’Connell and D. McCarthy, pp. 14-17).

O’Connell, M., Huang, C.C. and Eicher, U. 1999. Multidisciplinary investigations, including stable-isotope studies, of thick Late-glacial sediments from Tory Hill, Co. Limerick, western Ireland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 147, 169-208.

Barton, K. and Molloy, K. (Eds) 1998. South Central Mayo. Field Guide No. 22. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

Fuller, J.L. and O’Connell, M. 1998. Long-term vegetation dynamics and human activity at Mayo Abbey, central Mayo. In: Barton, K. and Molloy, K. (Eds.). South Central Mayo. Field Guide No. 22. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O’Connell, M. 1998. [Contributions] Assemblage zone (pp. 58-59); Biostratigraphic unit (p. 94); Biostratigraphy (pp. 94-95); Chronostratigraphy (pp. 130-131); Chronozone (p. 131); Fossil assemblage (p. 288); Palaeoclimatic reconstruction (pp. 517-520); Pluvial (p. 568); Spread (p. 715). In: The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management (Eds Calow, P., Falk, D.A., Grace, J., Moore, P.D. and Stearns, S.C.). Blackwell Science, Osney Mead.

Molloy, K. 1997. Prehistoric farming at Mooghaun - a new pollen diagram from Mooghaun Lough. Archaeology Ireland, 11, 22-26.

O'Connell, M., Molloy, K., Usinger, H. and Dörfler, W. 1997. Coring deep calcareous lakes in south-east Clare and Inis Oírr (Inisheer), western Ireland, towards the reconstruction of Late-glacial and Holocene environments. Würzburger Geographische Manuskripte, 41, 151-152.

Huang, C.C. and O'Connell, M. 1996. Radiometric dating of the recent lake sediment from Ballydoo Lough, Cornamona, Co. Galway, Ireland. In: Liu, T., Luo, L., Huang, C.C., Guo, Y. and Zhang, D. (Eds). Environmental Change and Quaternary Research - Proceedings of International Conference on Quaternary High Mountainous Regions (ICQMR). Southwest China Normal University Press, Chongqing, pp. 15-22.

Mitchell, F.J.G., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Hannon, G.E., O'Connell, M., Pilcher, J.R. and Watts, W.A. 1996. Ireland. In: Berglund, B.E., Birks, H.J.B., Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M. and Wright, H.E. (Eds.). Palaeoecological Events During the Last 15 000 Years. Regional Syntheses of Palaeoecological Studies of Lakes and Mires in Europe. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 1-13.

Williams, D.M. and O'Connell, M. 1996. Cave-like tunnels within boulder clay in Galway City, western Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 25, 263-266.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1995. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of environment and land-use changes during prehistory at Céide Fields, western Ireland. Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet, 23, 187-225.

Coxon, P. and O'Connell, M. (Eds) 1994. Clare Island and Inishbofin. Field Guide No. 17. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O'Connell, M. (Ed.) 1994. Burren, Co. Clare. Field Guide No. 18. (2nd ed.) Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O'Connell, M. 1994. Connemara. Vegetation and Land Use since the Last Ice Age. Dublin, Office of Public Works.

O'Connell, M. 1994. Main area: Ireland [Site data]. In: Frenzel, B. (Ed.). Palaeoclimate Research, Vol. 12. Evaluation of Land Surfaces cleared from Forests in the Roman Iron Age and the Time of the migrating Germanic Tribes based on Regional Pollen Diagrams. Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, pp. 50-54.

Walker, M.J.C., Bohncke, S.J.P., Coope, G.R., O'Connell, M., Usinger, H. and Verbruggen, C. 1994. The Devensian/Weichselian Late-glacial in northwest Europe (Ireland, Britain, north Belgium, The Netherlands, northwest Germany). Journal of Quaternary Science, , 109-118.

Andrieu, V., Huang, C.C., O'Connell, M. and Paus, A. 1993. Lateglacial vegetation and environment in Ireland: first results from four western sites. Quaternary Science Reviews, 12, 681-705.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1993. Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Galway, Ireland. In: Chambers, F.M. (Ed.). Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape. London, Chapman and Hall, pp. 185-199.

O'Connell, M. 1993. Report on the 8th International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 1992. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1, 259-260.

Huang, C.C. and O'Connell, M. 1992. Recent land-use history in eastern Connemara: a palaeoecological case study at Ballydoo Lough, Cornamona, Co. Galway. In: Feehan, J. (Ed.). Environment and Development in Ireland. Dublin, The Environmental Institute, University College Dublin, pp. 318-330.

Jelicic, L. and O'Connell, M. 1992. History of vegetation and land use from 3200 B.P. to the present in the north-west Burren, a karstic region of western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1, 119-140.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1991. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of woodland and land-use history at Lough Sheeauns, Connemara, western Ireland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 67, 75-113.

O'Connell, M. 1991. Early environments and the first settlers. The Neolithic environment. The environmental and human activity in Bronze Age Ireland. In: Ryan, M. (Ed.). The Illustrated Archaeology of Ireland. Dublin, Town House Publishers, pp. 32/44/66-33/47/68.

O'Connell, M. (Ed.) 1991. The Post Glacial Period (10,000-0 B.P.): Fresh Perspectives. Dublin, Irish Association for Quaternary Studies. [Extended abstracts].

Mooney, E.P. and O'Connell, M. 1990. The phytosociology and ecology of the aquatic and wetland plant communities of the Lower Corrib basin, County Galway. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 90B, 57-97.

O'Connell, M. 1990. Early land use in north-east County Mayo ) the palaeoecological evidence. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 90C, 259-279.

O'Connell, M. 1990. Origins of Irish lowland blanket bog. In: Doyle, G.J. (Ed.). Ecology and Conservation of Irish Peatlands. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, pp. 49-71.

Lockhart, N.D., O'Connell, M., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Van Doorslaer, L. 1989. Scraw ( Schwingmoor) plant communities at Loch an Chorcail, Carna, Co Galway. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 23, 128-134.

O'Connell, M. and Warren, W.P. (Eds) 1988. Connemara. Field Guide No. 11. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1988. Neolithic agriculture - fresh evidence from Cleggan, Connemara. Archaeology Ireland, 2, 67-70.

O'Connell, M., Molloy, K. and Bowler, M. 1988. Post-glacial landscape evolution in Connemara, western Ireland with particular reference to woodland history. In: Birks, H.H., Birks, H.J.B., Kaland, P.E. and Moe, D. (Eds.). The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future. Cambridge University Press, pp. 487-514.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1987. The nature of the vegetational changes at about 5000 B.P. with particular reference to the elm decline: fresh evidence from Connemara, western Ireland. New Phytologist, 106, 203-220.

O'Connell, M. 1987. Early cereal-type pollen records from Connemara, western Ireland and their possible significance. Pollen et Spores, 29, 207-224.

O'Connell, M., Mitchell, F.J.G., Readman, P.W., Doherty, T.J. and Murray, D.A. 1987. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of the post-glacial environment at Lough Doo, County Mayo, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 2, 149-164.

O'Connell, M. 1986. Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Vegetations- und Siedlungsgeschichte aus dem Lengener Moor, Friesland (Niedersachsen). Probleme der Küstenforschung, 16, 171-193.

O'Connell, M. 1986. Reconstruction of local landscape development in the post-Atlantic based on palaeoecological investigations at Carrownaglogh prehistoric field system, County Mayo, Ireland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 49, 117-176.

 

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