The earliest directly dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) ever found in Ireland has been identified, confirming the species ...

Situated on the high Burren limestone plateau in County Clare, Poulnabrone Dolmen is one of Ireland’s most iconic ...

In 1987 a small team of people with an interest in the general field of archaeology published the first issue of Archaeology Ireland. It has been published every quarter since then. Archaeology ...

The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the ...

The Farming Rathcroghan project took home two prizes at the Archaeological Achievement Awards this weekend. The Tulsk group ...

Archaeological evidence for the use of wheeled vehicles with horses in Ireland is remarkably scant for the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early medieval periods. An isolated linchpin of Hallstatt C1/D (c.

During a road construction project in County Roscommon, archaeologists recovered a 1,600-year-old wooden idol from a bog near the town of Gortnacrannagh. The eight-foot-tall figure, which may ...

The National Museum of Ireland recently received a surprising anonymous donation. Now, it needs to figure out where the gift came from—and not just to send a thank-you card. Someone sending a box of ...

CORK, IRELAND—The Irish Examiner reports that archaeologist Tony Miller is conducting excavations at the site of Carrignacurra Castle, a defensive tower house built on a high rock outcrop on the banks ...

In 1852, a collection of Roman funerary objects - a glass cremation urn, a bronze mirror, and a phial - was unearthed near ...

The title of this fascinating talk is, ‘Ireland of a Thousand Goodbyes. Memory of Mass Emigration in the Irish Landscape’. While numerous Irish people had been emigrating long before the Great Famine, ...