Avenues to an Afterlife?

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Full title: Exploring the Baltinglass cursus complex: routes for the dead

Creator / Author: James O’Driscoll

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article (online) / 18p

Journal Information: Antiquity First View, pp. 1-18

When Published: 25^th April 2024

Publisher / Place of Publication: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. / Cambridge, CB2 8AE, United Kingdom

About: James O’Driscoll, who has spent the past number of years investigating the Baltinglass Hillfort Complex, now presents his latest findings in an online article under the aegis of the scholarly journal ‘Antiquity’. The author describes a cluster of cursus monuments that have been discovered using the newest archaeology tools and techniques. This is the first time that a cluster of such monuments has been discoved in Ireland. The author concludes that the monuments “demonstrate a clear connection between the dead, major solar events and seasonal farming cycles”.

ID number(s): 0003-598X (Print), 1745-1744 (Online)

Article Contents: Abstract — Introduction — Neolithic Ireland and the Baltinglass Landscape — The Baltinglass Cursus Monuments — The Baltinglass Cursus Monuments in Context — Routes for the Dead? — Conclusion — Funding Statement — References.

Extra #1: includes maps and photographs.

Extra #2: Read this article online via the Publisher’s Website.

Extra #3: Link to the website of the journal ‘Antiquity’ at: https://antiquity.ac.uk/

Extra #4: The findings of James O’Driscoll in the above article have been picked up by a number of news outlets and social media streams. For example, ‘Newsweek’ (online edition) contains this item by Aristos Georgiou.

Households in Rathbran Parish in middle of 19th century

Full title: Parish of Rathbran

Creator / Author: Richard Griffith

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / eDoc / 9p

When Published: 1854

Publisher / Place of Publication: Alexander Thom and Sons for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office / 87 Abbey Street, Dublin.

Parent Publication [book]: County of Wicklow: valuation of the several tenements comprising that portion of the Union of Baltinglass situate in the county above named / Richard Griffith, General Valuation Office / 106pp

About: The property tax system of 1850’s Ireland, otherwise known as Griffiths Valuation. It was the first major attempt at valuing property. This section lists householders in the Parish of Rathbran, part of the area covered by the Poor Law Union of Baltinglass in West Wicklow.

ID number(s): None

Contents: Ballinacrow Lower — Ballinacrow Upper — Ballyhook — Ballyhook Demesne — Ballyhook Hill — Ballynatone — Gibralter — Goldenfort — Kill — Manger — Mattymount — Raheen — Rampere — Rathbran — Saundersgrove — Saundersgrove Hill — Scurlogue — Stratford — Town of Stratford — Tuckmill Hill — Tuckmill Lower — Tuckmill Upper — Winetavern — Town of Stratford.

Extra #1: Read the entries for  Griffiths Valuation Rathbran Parish (pdf file).

Extra #2: Search Griffiths Valuation and link to contemporary maps at AskAboutIreland.ie

Extra #3: Check Libraries Ireland for this publication.

Extra #4: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide