EMAP - Early Medieval Archaeology Project

Publications

EMAP team members have published or completed the texts for a total of 2 monographs, 5 reports (for 2010) and 18 academic papers in the period 2008-2010. Our EMAP reports are all made publicly available on our website www.emap.ie and have been used by students, postgraduates and other scholars in Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America (that we know of). Our publications listed below are either based on EMAP team members’ own previous research, if completed prior to INSTAR funding, or are directly based on the work of EMAP during the period 2008-2010. Publications submitted to journals since funding was secured, fully acknowledge the Heritage Council INSTAR research programme.

Harney, L. (2011) ‘Burial and pilgrimage within the landscape of Glendalough: The evidence of the crosses and cross-slabs’, in L. Doran, C. Doherty & M. Kelly (eds) Glendalough: City of God. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Harney, L., Kinsella, J. & O’Sullivan, A. (forthcoming) ‘Early medieval Dublin: Some observations on the history of early medieval excavation and research’, in S. Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin XII: Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2010. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Kerr, T. R. (2009) ‘The height of fashion - the distribution of platform raths in Northwest Ulster’, Journal of Irish Archaeology, 17, 63-76.
Kerr. T. R. (ed.) (2008) The Archaeology of Early Christianity in the North of Ireland (Ann Hamlin). (BAR 460).
Kerr, T. R., Swindles, G., & Plunkett, G. (2009) ‘Making hay while the sun shines? Socio-economic change, cereal production and climatic deterioration in Early Medieval Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, 2868-74.
Kinsella, J. (2010) ‘A new Irish early medieval site type? Exploring the ‘recent’ archaeological evidence for non-circular enclosed settlement and burial sites’ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 110C, 89–132. (with acknowledgements to INSTAR).
Linnane, S.J. and Kinsella, J., (2009) ‘Military lords and defensive beginnings: A preliminary assessment of the social role of an impressive rath at Baronstown’, in M.B. Deevy and D. Murphy (eds) Places along the way: First findings on the M3, NRA Monographs No. 5, 101-122., Bray. Wordwell.
McCormick, F. (2008) ‘The decline of the cow: agricultural and settlement change in early medieval Ireland’, Peritia 20, 210-25.
O’Hara, R. (2009) ‘Early medieval settlement at Roestown 2’, in M.B. Deevy and D. Murphy (eds) Places along the way: First findings on the M3. NRA Monographs No. 5, Bray. 57-82.
O’Hara, R. (2009) ‘Collierstown 1: a late Iron Age-early medieval enclosed cemetery’. In M.B. Deevy and D. Murphy (eds) Places along the way: First findings on the M3. NRA Monographs No. 5, Bray. 83-100.
O’Sullivan, A. (2008) ‘Early medieval houses in Ireland: social identity and dwelling spaces’, Peritia 20, 225-56.
O'Sullivan, A. (2009) 'Early medieval crannogs and imagined islands', in G. Cooney, K. Becker, J. Coles, M. Ryan and S. Sievers (eds). Relics of Old Decency: Archaeological studies in later prehistory; Festschrift for Barry Raftery. Dublin: Wordwell. 79-87.
O'Sullivan, A. (2009) 'On pilgrimage to Glendalough', in Joe Fenwick (ed.). Lost and Found II: Rediscovering Ireland's Past. Bray: Wordwell. 285-94.
O’Sullivan, A, Harney, L. and Kinsella, J. forthcoming. INSTAR funding in Ireland: the Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP). Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG) Newsletter. (acknowledgements to INSTAR).
O’Sullivan, A, McCormick, F., Kinsella, J. and Harney, L., Kerr, T., M. seaver, R. O’Hara, R. Sands and C. McDermott 2010. Ireland’s Early Medieval Archaeology Project. Society for Medieval Archaeology Newsletter, 43, 7-9. (acknowledgements to INSTAR).
O’Sullivan, A. and Kinsella, J. (forthcoming) ‘Living with a sacred landscape: Interpreting the early medieval archaeology of the Hill of Tara and its Environs’, in M. O’Sullivan (ed.) Tara: Proceedings of the Tara Symposium, October 2009 (acknowledgements to INSTAR).
O’Sullivan, A., McCormick, F., Kerr, T. and Harney, L. (forthcoming) Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeological Excavations 1930-2004 Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (to be published by RIA as an INSTAR monograph)
O’Sullivan, A. and Nicholl, T. (2010) ‘Early medieval settlement enclosures in Ireland: dwellings, daily life and social identity’. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111c, 59-90. (acknowledgements to INSTAR).

EMAP Reports

Harney, L., O’Sullivan, A, McCormick, F and Kerr, T. 2008. A bibliography of early medieval Ireland: Version 1. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2008.
Harney, L., O’Sullivan, A, McCormick, F, Kerr, T and Kinsella, J. 2009. A bibliography of early medieval Ireland: Version 2. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2009. (Available for download).
Kerr, T., Harney, L., Kinsella, J., O’Sullivan, A. and McCormick, F. 2009. Early Medieval Dwellings and Settlements in Ireland, AD 400-1100. Vol. 2: Gazetteer of Site Descriptions. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2009. (Available for download).
O’Sullivan, A. and Harney, L. 2007 Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeological Excavations 1970–2002 (First edition). Submitted to Heritage Council, December 2007.
O’Sullivan, A. and Harney, L. 2008 Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeological Excavations 1970–2002(Revised Edition). Submitted to Heritage Council, January 2008.
O’Sullivan, A, McCormick, F, Kerr, T & Harney, L. 2008. Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeological Excavations 1930–2004. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2008. (Available for download).
O’Sullivan, A, McCormick, F and McDermott, C. 2008. The Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP) Progress Report 2008. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2008. (Available for download).
O’Sullivan, A and McCormick, F (with contributions from McDermott, Conor, Sands, Robert, Kerr, Thomas, Harney, Lorcan, Kinsella, Jonathan, Seaver, Matthew and O’Hara, Robert) 2009. The Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP) Progress Report 2009. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2009. (Available for download).
Sands, Robert, Harney, Lorcan, Kerr, Thomas and O’Sullivan, Michael. 2008. A database of early medieval archaeological excavations in Ireland, 1930-2004. Submitted for Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme December 2008. (Available for download).