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 #4: Listen to an audiobook related to this title via the Abarta Heritage website

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