The Prehistoric Landscape Around Rathgall

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Full title: Rathgall – piecing together the mosaic of a later prehistoric landscape

Creator / Author: James O’Driscoll and Katharina Becker

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 6p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 30-35

When Published: Winter 2022

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: An article that summarises the most up-to-date information about what the authors describe as “one of the pre-eminent later prehistoric sites in the country”. The newest archaeological tools and techniques suggest that Rathgall was part of a wider prehistoric landscape and this article sets out to interpret the latest findings.

ID number(s): 0790-892X

Extra #1: includes several colour and b/w photographs.

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An Aul’ Church in Aghowle

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Full title: Aghowle Church, Co. Wicklow

Creator / Author: Text and images by Chris Corlett

Item Type / Page count: Booklet / 6p

When Published: September 2011

Publisher / Place of Publication: Archaeology Ireland / Media House, South County Business Park, Dublin 18.

About: This is a glossy A4 brochure which folds out to the equivalent of six A4-size pages. It is Number 54 in the Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide Series. It is a profusely illustrated introduction to the remains of a twelfth-century church which the author indicates must have been “one of the largest rural parish churches of its day”. The site of the church was associated with St. Finnian, who flourished in the sixth-century.

ID number(s): None. The ID number 0790-892X printed on the brochure relates to the journal ‘Archaeology Ireland’.

Extra #1: includes several colour photographs, plus a plan, plus a map.

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Extra #5: View the entry for ‘Aghowle’ in the Placenames Database of Ireland.

Banks Our Ancestors Built

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Full title: Some Cursus Monuments in South Leinster

Creator / Author: Chris Corlett

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 6p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 20-25

When Published: Summer 2014

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: A cursus is a prehistoric construction consisting of two banks parallel to each other. They can extend for some considerable distances. Their function is not clear, although they appear to be associated with other nearby prehistoric features. This article looks at four cursuses in the South Leinster area, two of which are in West Wicklow, one which is just over the border in East Kildare and one in South Carlow.

ID number(s): 0790-892X

Extra #1: includes several colour photographs.

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Rather Good Guide to Rathgall

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Full title: Rathgall, Co. Wicklow

Creator / Author: Text by Katharina Becker

Item Type / Page count: Booklet / 6p

When Published: December 2010

Publisher / Place of Publication: Archaeology Ireland / Media House, South County Business Park, Dublin 18.

About: This is a glossy A4 brochure which folds out to the equivalent of six A4-size pages. It is Number 51 in the Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide Series. It is a beautifully presented summation of what is known about the hillfort of Rathgall in South West Wicklow.

ID number(s): None. The ID number 0790-892X printed on the brochure relates to the journal ‘Archaeology Ireland’.

Contents: Introduction – Visible features – The excavation – Rathgall through time – The hillfort ramparts – The area within rampart 1 – The eastern area of industrial activity – The eastern Bronze Age burial complex – Iron Age, medieval and post-medieval activity – Further reading.

Extra #1: includes several colour photographs, plus plans, plus maps.

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A Very Cross Stonemason?

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Full title: The Abandoned Cross at Ballintubber, Hollywood, County Wicklow

Creator / Author: Christiaan Corlett

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 3pp

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 26-28

When Published: Summer 2011

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: Imagine the time involved fashioning a large Irish High Cross from Wicklow granite only to have it break while being turned over. This article looks at such a cross,
left where it was in the fields of Ballintubber near Hollywood. It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good and this accident now leaves a legacy pointing to how such crosses may have been made.

ID number(s): 0035-9106

Extra #1: Includes colour photographs.

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Poulaphuca Slowly Shows Its Secrets

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Full title: Wicklow’s Emerging Archaeology

Creator / Author: Chris Corlett

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 5p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 26-30

When Published: Spring 2009

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: Although it is an artificial lake, the waters of Poulaphuca ebb and flow just like any other and what was once dry land is now a shoreline that the water wears away. During some unusually dry spells between 2006-2009, this abraded shoreline revealed the remains of a Stone Age dwelling. In this article the author describes the archaeological evidence that was uncovered including an unusual quantity of saddle querns located in the vicinity.

ID number(s): 0790-892X

Extra #1: includes several colour photographs.

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Extra #3: Link to the author’s website and browse to the complete article.

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The Clash of the Ash Over the Centuries

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Full title: Warriors, Legends & Heroes: The Archaeology of Hurling

Creator / Author: Aidan O’Sullivan

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 3p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 32-34

When Published: Autumn 1998

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: A short article about the archaeological evidence that can be produced to illuminate the origins of our warrior sport. (Unfortunately, Wicklow seems to have been disinherited).

ID number(s): 0790-892X

WW Connection #1: Author Aidan O’Sullivan is a native of Valleymount in West Wicklow.

Extra #1: includes colour photographs and illustrations.

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Armchair Archaeology

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Full title: Googling the Landscape: Discovering a Prehistoric Landscape in West Wicklow

Creator / Author: C. J. Darby

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 4p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 20-23

When Published: Winter 2007

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: A short article about how the still-developing technology of Google Earth^TM  has been used to locate previously unrecorded field monuments in parts of West Wicklow. The article focuses on the areas of Ballinascollogue and Ballinabrocky.

ID number(s): 0790-892X

Extra #1: includes photographs and screenshots.

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A Deserted Village

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Full title: A fossilised landscape in County Wicklow

Creator / Author: Chris Corlett

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 5p

Journal Information: Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 16-20

When Published: Autumn 2007

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wordwell Ltd. / Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

About: A short article about the remains of a small deserted settlement in the townland of Lisheens near Kilbride in north-west Wicklow. The settlement may date from the seventeenth-century.

ID number(s): 0790-892X

Extra #1: includes several colour photographs and illustrations.

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Extra #5: Link to the author’s website

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