It’s Kildare, So There Must Be Horses

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Full title: Colonising a royal landscape: the history and archaeology of a medieval village at Mullamast, County Kildare

Creator / Author: Teresa Bolger, with contributions by Noel Dunne, Abby Mynett, Damian Shiels, Claudia Tommasino Suárez and Scott Timpany.

Item Type / Page count: Book and CD-ROM / 163pp

When Published: 2017

Publisher / Place of Publication: Transport Infrastructure Ireland / Parkgate Business Centre, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8. DO8 DK10

About: This is publication Number 6 in the Transport Infrastructure Ireland Heritage Series. The TII Archaeology & Heritage Section publishes the results of TII-funded archaeological investigations that come about as a result e.g. of motorway planning and construction. This scolarly publication investigates a lost medieval village on the M9 motorway at Mullamast just over the border in neighbouring Co. Kildare. Of note is that the archaeological evidence points to the area being a centre for the breeding of horses for warfare. The accompanying CD-ROM contains technical reports relating to the excavation of the medieval settlement and other sites in Mullamast townland.

ID number(s): 9780993231568

Contents: Contents of CD-ROM – Foreword — Acknowledgements – Introduction — Landscape, setting and context — From Maistiu to manor — Uncovering the medieval village — A medieval stud farm? Trade and subsistence at Mullamast — Medieval villages and the process of desertion – Conclusions – Appendix 1: Radiocarbon dates – Appendix 2: Artefacts catalogue — Bibliography – Index.

Extra #1: Includes dozens of photographs, illustrations and maps.

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Extra #5: Read an online article ‘The medieval stud farm of royal Mullamast’ via the TII website

Sixth Collection of Articles on West Wicklow History

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Full title: Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 6, 2011

Creator / Author: West Wicklow Historical Society & contributors, joint editors Chris Lawlor, Donal McDonnell

Item Type / Page count: Journal (Complete issue) / 100p

When Published: 2011

Publisher / Place of Publication: West Wicklow Historical Society / Baltinglass (?), Co. Wicklow.

About: The sixth publication of a set of articles on aspects of West Wicklow history. This issue contains articles featuring locations as diverse as Calverstown, Co. Kildare, Glen of Imaal, High Park and Australia. The major article in this edition is ’Pastimes’ by Joseph McArdle, a fictional account of life in the Tuckmill area of Baltinglass in the late 19^th century. It is a chapter from a manuscript entitled ‘The Hillside Farm, or How We Lived in the Eighties’. Another chapter from this manuscript was published in Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 5, 2009.

ID number(s): 0790-1739

Contents: A word from the Chairman — Ramblings of the Secretary — Death in the valley [the killing of Neil ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle] / James Durney — Blackhall Castle, Calverstown, Co. Kildare [and theories as to the possible functions of its Sheelagh na Gig] / Cora Crampton – Knockpatrick Hill legend [a dress fastener for a chieftain’s cloak] / Dorothy Leonard — Michael Dwyer and Bridget Brown of Cummock / David Ward — The role of  horses in farm life in the 1920’s / Stanley Jackson — Miscellaneous biographical notices relating to Baltinglass, appearing in newspapers, 1748-1904 / Paul Gorry – Martin Byrne, 1815-1892 / Dermot Kavanagh and Brian Kavanagh — Farewell to the 25-pounder field gun / James Scannell — Hollywood, an historic village /  John Glennon — Passage tombs in West Wicklow / Mairéad Connellan — [‘The Hillside Farm, or how we lived in the 1880s’ an extract entitled]…Pastimes / Joseph McArdle — The Westbys and High Park House / Peadar Cullen — St. Nicholas’s Holy Well, Tournant / Chris Lawlor — Christmas Day 1910 Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway timetable / James Scannell.

Extra #1: Contains several black & white photographs and maps.

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