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Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: Formerly the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Founded as the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1895 HE most marked feature of the Society's work during the year 1895, the period covered by the present Volume, has been the great increase in what has been aptly described as its clinica work. The Excursions, in which our Antiquities have been visited and examined as they lie, have been more numerous and more extensive than in any former year of the Society's existence. The accounts of these Excursions form a conspicuous part of this Volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...
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Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 3 of 43: Formerly the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Founded in 1849, as the Kilkenny Archaeological Society; 1913 The present volume of the Society's Journal is concerned more with the mediaeval than with the earlier history of Ireland. Mr. Westropp's continuation of his monumental work on the Prehistoric Remains of Clare, Mr. Hamilton's topographical study of one of the Roads out of Tara, and Miss Dobbs' note on a Burial Custom of the Iron Age are the only papers devoted to pre-Christian antiquities. Mr. Tuite reports a cup and circle-stone in Westmeath, and Mr. Westropp an earthwork ...
Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 36: Formerly the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland Founded in 1849, as the Kilkenny Archaeological Society; Consecutive Series Several of the Kerry dolmens and stone forts are described by Mr. P. J. Lynch, who also notes some stones carved with cups, circles, and other markings, in that county. These Kerry districts are well worthy of systematic investigation; and Mr. Lynch has done good work in elucidating these antiquities of this interesting county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...
Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive study of the making and marketing of pottery in medieval Ireland. Focusing on a well-preserved 14th-century pottery production center which was excavated in 2006 at Highhays, outside the walls of the renowned Anglo-Norman town of Kilkenny in south-east Ireland, the authors describe its kiln, workshops and working areas, as well as its ‘Highhays Ware’ products: jugs, jars, cooking-pots, money-boxes and ridge tiles. Foremost amongst the outputs from the kiln site were high-quality, wheel-thrown, green-glazed jugs that were closely modeled on French Saintonge and Bristol Redcliffe archetypes and the volume describes the distincti...