PRU Publications 2001 - 2015

Golden, N., Morrison, L., Gibson, P.J., Potito, A.P. and Zhang, C. (2015). Spatial patterns of metal contamination and magnetic susceptibility of soils at an urban bonfire site. Applied Geochemistry 52: 86-96.

Galvin, S., Potito, A.P. and Hickey, K.R. (2014). Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of Taxus baccata (yew) in southwest Ireland. Dendrochronologia 32: 144-152.

Molloy, K. (2014). Mooghaun, south east Clare: archaeology, landscape change and early farming. In: Dalton, C and O’Carrol, E (eds) Limerick and Shannon Estuary Region. Irish Quaternary Fieldguide No. 32, Irish Quaternary Association, Dublin.

  Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. (2014). Post-glaciation plant colonization of Ireland: fresh insights from An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland. In: Sleeman, D.P., Carlsson, J. and Carlsson, J.E.L. Mind the Gap II: new insights into the Irish postglacial. Irish Naturalists' Journal, Belfast.

Molloy, K., Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. (2014). A pollen profile from Ballinphuill bog: vegetation and land-use history. In: McKeon, J. and O’Sullivan, J. (eds.), The quiet landscape: Archaeological investigations on the M6 Galway to Ballinasloe national road scheme. NRA Scheme Monographs 15. National Roads Authority, Dublin, pp. 116–118.

Morley, A., M., Rosenthal, Y., deMenocal, P., (2014). Ocean-Atmosphere climate shift during the mid-to-late Holocene transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 388, 18-26.

Morley, A., Heslop, D., Rühlemann, C., Mulitza, S. Paul, A. and Schulz, M. (2014). Detecting Holocene changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Integration of Proxy Data and Climate Simulations (DAMOCLES) in: Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC), edited by: Schulz, M., and Paul, A., SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, 2014 (in press).

O’Connell, M., Ghilardi, B. and Morrison, L. (2014). A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland Quaternary Research 81: 35-49(DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.10.004).

Potito, A.P., Woodward,C.A.  McKeown, M. and Beilman, D.W. (2014). Modern influences on chironomid distribution in western Ireland lakes: potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Paleolimnology 52: 395-404 .

Schott, R., Stuijts, I., McGinley, S. and  Potito, A.P. (2014). Chapter 5. Reflections on a lake: a multi-proxy study of environmental change and human impacts at Lough Lugh, Uisneach, Co. Westmeath. Discovery Programme Reports 8, Dublin.

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]

Guo, X., Potito, A.P.,. . Luo, L. and Beilman, D.W. (2013). Twentieth century human and climate impacts on a large mountain lake in southwest China. Hydrobiologia 718: 189-206.

Flannery, W., Kindermann,G.,. Lynch,K. and Potito, A.P. (2013) Biodiversity in the Coastal Zone: Status and Governance. Working and Educating for Biodiversity (WEB), Dublin.

O’Connell, M. (2013) The Burren, north Clare — an exceptional landscape, a place apart. In: Jebb, M. and Crowley, C. (eds.). Secrets of the Irish Landscape. Chapter 9: 79-85, Cork University Press.

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).

Taylor, K.J., Potito , A.P. Beilman, D.W.,  Ghilardi, B. and O’Connell, M. (2013). Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 3212-3221.

Jones, C. (2012). 'Prehistory in the Fergus Valley' In: Beneath the Banner - Archaeology of the M18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road, Co. Clare. NRA Scheme Monograph 10. Dublin: National Roads Authority.

Jones, C. (2012). 'Prehistoric Background' In: Bermingham, N.; Hull, G.;Taylor, K (eds). Beneath the Banner - Archaeology of the M18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road, Co Clare. NRA Scheme Monograph 10. Dublin: National Roads Authority.

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

McKeown, M.,  Potito, A.P. and  Hickey, K.R. (2012). The long-term temperature record from Markree Observatory, County Sligo from 1842-2011. Irish Geography 45:257-282 .

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.

 Schulting, R.J., Murphy, E., Jones, C., Warren, G. (2012). 'New dates from the north and a proposed chronology for Irish court tombs'. Proceedings Of The Royal Irish Academy Section C-Archaeology Celtic Studies History Linguistics Literature, 112 :1-60.

Woodward, C.A., Potito, A.P., and Beilman, D.W. (2012). Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in surface sediments from lakes of western Ireland: implications for inferring past lake productivity and nitrogen loading. Journal of Paleolimnology 47: 167-184.

Galvin, S.A., Hickey, K.R. and Potito, A.P.. (2011). Identifying volcanic signals in Irish temperature observations since AD1800. Irish Geography 44: 97-110.

Guo, X., Potito, A.P. and . Luo, L. (2011). A GIS-based approach for simulating air temperature in the Hydroelectric Reservoir Region, central China. Proceedings for the International Symposium on Water Resources and Environmental Protection (ISWREP): 2193-2197.

Jones, C., Carey, O. and  Hennigar, C. (2011). 'Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare'. Proceedings Of The Royal Irish Academy Section C-Archaeology Celtic Studies History Linguistics Literature, 111C : Domestic life in Ireland. pp. 33-58. Special issue. Dublin.

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.

Morley, A., Schulz, M., Rosenthal, Y., Mulitza, S., Paul, A., Rühlemann, C., (2011). Solar modulation of North Atlantic Central Water formation at multidecadal timescales during the late Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 308, 161-171.

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]

Rosenthal, Y., Morley, A., Barras, C., Katz, M.E., Jorissen, F., Reichart, G.-J., Oppo, D.W., Linsley, B.K., (2011). Temperature calibration of Mg/Ca ratios in the intermediate water benthic foraminifer Hyalinea balthica. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 12, Q04003.

Bamberg, A., Rosenthal, Y., Paul, A., Heslop, D., Mulitza, S., Rühlemann, C., and Schulz, M. (2010). Reduced North Atlantic Central Water formation in response to early Holocene ice-sheet melting. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L17705.

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.].

Jones, C. (2009). 'Coasts, mountains, rivers and bogs. Using the landscape to explore regionality in Ireland' In: Brophy, K.;Barclay, G (eds). Defining a Regional Neolithic: Evidence from Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow.

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.

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.

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.

MacDonald, G.M., Moser, K.A., Bloom, A.M., Porinchu, D.F., Potito, A.P., Petel, A., Wolfe, B., Edwards, T.W.D., Orme, A.R. and Orme, A.J. (2008). Evidence of temperature depression and hydrological variations in the eastern Sierra Nevada during the Younger Dryas stade. Quaternary Research 70: 131-140.

Potito, A.P. and MacDonald, G.M.. (2008). The effects of aridity on conifer radial growth, recruitment, and mortality patterns in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 40: 129-139.

Jones, C. (2007). Temples of Stone - Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Cork: The Collins Press.

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.

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).

Porinchu, D.F., Potito, A.P., MacDonald, G.M. and Bloom, A.M. (2007). Subfossil chironomids as indicators of recent climate change in Sierra Nevada, California, lakes. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 39: 286-296.

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.

Potito, A.P.,Porinchu, D.F., MacDonald, G.M. and Moser, K.A.( 2006). A late Quaternary chironomid-inferred temperature record from the Sierra Nevada, California, with connections to northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures. Quaternary Research 66: 356-363.

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. (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.

Potito, A.P. and Beatty, S.W., (2005). Impacts of recreation trails on exotic and ruderal species distribution in grassland areas along the Colorado Front Range. Environmental Management 36: 230-236.

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.

Jones, C. (2004).  The Burren and the Aran Islands- Exploring the Archaeology. Cork, Collins Press.

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.

Jones, C. (2003). 'Neolithic beginnings on Roughan Hill and the Burren' In: Armit, I.; Murphy, E.; Nelis, E.; Simpson, D (eds). Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. Oxford: Oxbow.

Jones, C. (2002). 'Roughan Hill' In: OConnell, J.W.; Korf, A (eds). The Book of the Burren. Kinvarra: Tír Eolas.

Jones, C. (2002). 'Selection of Axeheads, A Selection of Spearheads, A Selection of Arrowheads, Axe Mould, Two Daggers' In: Armitage, H (eds). The Hunt Museum Essential Guide. London: Scala Publishers Ltd.

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., 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.

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