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SKELETONS IN YOUGHAL, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND: ONE UNDER THE FLOOR, ANOTHER IN THE OUTDOOR LOO

July 31, 2014

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see also The Skeletons in my Cupboard by Catryn Power. Lecture 101. for TRASNA NA TIRE   NOTE: I have been asked many times lately about why a ‘coffin associated skeleton’ might be found away from a burial ground and in a non-burial context. In my forty years of work involving forensic anthropology and archaeology, […]

CASTLES & TOWER HOUSES IN COUNTY CORK, IRELAND

July 20, 2014

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  KILGOBBIN TOWER HOUSE, ON THE BANKS OF THE BANDON RIVER. PRIOR TO CONSERVATION WORKS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.  A MCCARTHY CLAN CASTLE. A 19TH CENTURY HOUSE ABUTS THE NORTH WALL. FARM BUILDINGS WERE BUILT AGAINST THE SOUTH AND WEST WALLING.           SHIPPOOL CASTLE, AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD […]

CIAN O’ SE DIED ON 11th January 2014. A SKILLED CAVER, FILM MAKER, PHOTOGRAPHER, WITH EXPERTISE IN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.

July 6, 2014

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I met Cian O Se, when the late film maker Helen Prout, asked me for advice for the Cork Film Archive. She had set up this group with Cian, and photographer/film maker Con McParland. Having assisted the CFA over the next few months, I realised that a film on the poor condition of the Royal […]