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The Burren and the Aran Islands : exploring the archaeology / Carleton Jones.
Penn Museum Library DA990.B87 .J65 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Carleton (Carleton Shepherd)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland--Aran Island.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland--Burren.
- Aran Island (Ireland)--Antiquities.
- Aran Island (Ireland).
- Burren (Ireland)--Antiquities.
- Burren (Ireland).
- Ireland--Burren.
- Ireland--Aran Island.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cork : Collins, 2004.
- Contents:
- The Landscape 19
- The Archaeology 20
- The Burren
- The First People on the Burren 25
- The First Farmers on the Burren 27
- Poulnabrone Portal Tomb 30
- Poulawack Cairn 33
- Doolin Stone Axe Production Site 40
- Turlough Hill 42
- The Parknabinnia Chambered Tomb (Cl. 153) on Roughan Hill 46
- Territory and Society on the Burren in the Neolithic 51
- From Neolithic to Bronze Age 55
- Competition and Social Upheaval on Roughan Hill 56
- Excavating a Farmstead on Roughan Hill 60
- Dating the Ancient Field Walls on Roughan Hill 63
- The Wedge Tombs of the Burren 65
- Building a Wedge Tomb 68
- Gold, Power and War 71
- Gifts to the Gods 73
- The Cairns of the Burren 76
- Coolnatullagh Cairn 77
- Celts? 79
- The Coming of Christianity 84
- Rathborney 86
- Oughtmama 88
- The Horizontal Water Mill at Oughtmama 90
- St Mac Duagh's Hermitage at Keelhilla 93
- Glencolumbkille 95
- Cahercommaun and the Early Medieval Chiefdoms of the Burren 98
- The Excavation of Cahercommaun 101
- Wool Production at Cahercommaun 104
- Ironworking at Cahercommaun 105
- The Chiefdom of Corcu Modruad 108
- The Vikings 109
- The Ringforts of the Burren 109
- The O'Davoren Law School at Cahermacnaughten 113
- Medieval Churches and Society on the Burren 115
- Kilfenora 116
- The High Crosses of Kilfenora 120
- Corcomroe Cistercian Abbey 122
- Killilagh and Toomullin Churches in Doolin 128
- Carran Church 130
- Noughaval Church and Settlement 131
- Relics and Pilgrimage on the Burren 134
- Killinaboy 136
- Temple Cronan 138
- The Veneration of the T-Shaped Crozier in North Clare 140
- The Tower Houses of the Burren 142
- Contemporary Travellers' Accounts of Tower Houses 143
- Carn Mhic Tail 147
- Leamaneh Castle 148
- Nineteenth-Century Military Fortifications on the Burren 151
- The Aran Islands
- The Colonisation and Early Settlement of the Aran Islands 155
- The Wedge Tombs of the Aran Islands 157
- The Cnoc Raithni Burial Mound, Inisheer 159
- The Late Bronze Age Chiefdom of Dun Aonghasa 161
- The Form of the Original Late Bronze Age Hillfort 162
- Controlling Production at Dun Aonghasa 165
- Excavating Dun Aonghasa 166
- The Stone Forts of the Aran Islands 169
- Dun Aonghasa, Inishmore 172
- Dun Eoghanachta, Inishmore 177
- The Other Stone Forts 178
- Life Outside the Forts 184
- Baile na mBocht, Inishmore 185
- Christianity and Pilgrimage on the Aran Islands 189
- St Enda's Monastery of Cill Einne (Killeany), Inishmore 190
- Temple Benan 191
- Tighlagheany 195
- Cross-Decorated Stones of the Aran Islands 197
- Excavating St Ciaran's Monastery (Teampaill Chiarain), Inishmore 199
- Temple Brecan (The Seven Churches), Inishmore 204
- The High Crosses of Temple Brecan 208
- The Leapacha of Temple Brecan 210
- Cill Cheanainn, Inishmaan 212
- Teampall Chaomhain, Inisheer 214
- Other Interesting Church Sites 215
- Radiocarbon Dating the Churches of the Aran Islands 219
- Clochain 220
- Power Struggles on the Aran Islands 222
- O'Brien's Castle, Inisheer 223
- Arkin Fort, Inishmore 224
- Archaeology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 227
- Signal Towers 227
- Roadside Cenotaphs and Wayside Cairns 229.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1903464617
- 1903464498
- OCLC:
- 55729301
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