A STUNNING AERIAL VIEW OF MULLAGHMORE (GREAT SUMMIT) IN THE BURREN, COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND, TAKEN BY MATTHEW KELLY. During my work on the examination of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites in Ireland there were a small number of my reports which never got published in their entirety. Reports on all of the human skeletal […]
SOME DENTAL MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL POPULATIONS: an aid to biological affinity and the origins of the Irish? ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to assess the morphology of some aspects of Irish teeth dating from prehistory to late medieval times. Morphological characteristics of the human body such as pigmentation and […]
Posted on June 4, 2019 0 PREHISTORIC ROCK ART IN COUNTY KERRY. RECENT DISCOVERIES IDENTIFIED AND REPORTED BY ARCHAEOLOGIST AOIBHEANN LAMBE Image 1. Photo of Aoibheann by C. Busher O’Sullivan. Rock Art is the name given to a monument type which dates back to the Neolithic and consists of enigmatic carvings similar to those found […]
The burial of a young girl was found at Emlagh townland, near Dingle, County Kerry (Shee and O’Kelly, 1966). This girl was a bog body, whose hair, skin, and clothes were preserved naturally within a peat bog. Her clothing was a distinctly medieval style gown. Clothing design was probably slow to evolve in this part […]
PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE FINALISTS 2017 for FICTION Finalists for Summer 2016 for Fiction Catryn Power Short Stories by Catryn Power published by on Stream Publication ONE OF […]
THE ROYAL GUNPOWDER MILLS ONCE HAD A VISITOR CENTRE IN BALLINCOLLIG, COUNTY CORK. IT NO LONGER EXISTS. IT WAS CLOSED AND ITS MUSEUM EXHIBITS WERE REMOVED. TO REMEMBER IT AND TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT WORKED THERE AND WHO WERE SO DETERMINED TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL HERE ARE SOME MEMORIES. VISIT THE POWDER MILLS TODAY AND […]
THIS ITEM ON INVASIVE PLANTS IS IMPORTANT, SO IT HAS CREPT IN BETWEEN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAYERS OF THIS BLOG, JUST AS IT WOULD DO IN REALITY. TO BUILDINGS, WALLS ETC………………………. ======================================================================================== JAPANESE KNOTWEED IN COUNTY CORK (Fallopia japonica). EXCERPTS SEEN BELOW ARE taken from THE excellent work of FINBAR WALLACE and ISOBEL ABBOTT, ‘CORK INVASIVE ALIEN […]
http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/ THE BOOK HAS COME OUT IN THE TOP 3 FOR THE UK SUMMERTIME READ (june to august 2016) and will be in the top 12 for the annual final in June/July 2017. I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES WHICH INVOLVE HISTORIC MEDICINE, GHOSTS, DETECTIVES, FORENSICS AND SMUGGLERS ETC It is my first […]
JUNE 2015 THE FEN AT THE CLOISTERS, CARRIGROHANE, BALLINCOLLIG THE FEN AT THE CLOISTERS, CARRIGROHANE, BALLINCOLLIG THE PLANT SPECIES WERE IDENTIFIED BY TED COOKE, GER MORGAN AND TONY O’MAHONY. The fen at The Cloisters covers a sub-circular area of one third of an acre. This rare and valuable habitat outside Cork City, is a […]
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