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The Burren and the Aran Islands - Exploring the Archaeology

Table of Contents
 
Introduction
     The Landscape
     The Archaeology
     Acknowledgements
 
THE BURREN
The First People on the Burren
 
The First Farmers on the Burren
     Poulnabrone Portal Tomb
     Poulawack Cairn
     Doolin Stone Axe Production Site
     Turlough Hill
     The Parknabinnia Chambered Tomb (Cl. 153) on Roughan Hill
     Territory and Society on the Burren in the Neolithic
 
From Neolithic to Bronze Age
     Competition and Social Upheaval on Roughan Hill
     Excavating a Farmstead on Roughan Hill
     Dating the Ancient Field Walls on Roughan Hill
     The Wedge Tombs of the Burren
     Building a Wedge Tomb
 
Gold, Power and War
     Gifts to the Gods
     The Cairns of the Burren
     Collnatullagh Cairn
 
Celts?
 
The Coming of Christianity
     Rathborney
     Oughtmama
     The Horizontal Water Mill at Oughtmama
     St Mac Duagh's Hermitage at Keelhilla
     Glencolumbkille
 
Cahercommaun and the Early Medieval Chiefdoms of the Burren
     The Excavation of Cahercommaun
     Wool Production at Cahercommaun
     Ironworking at Cahercommaun
     The Chiefdom of Corcu Modruad
     The Vikings
     The Ringforts of the Burren
     The O'Davoren Law School at Cahermacnaughten
 
Medieval Churches and Society on the Burren
     Kilfenora
     The High Crosses of Kilfenora
     Corcomroe Cistercian Abbey
     Killilagh and Toomullin Churches in Doolin
     Carran Church
     Noughaval Church and Settlement
 
Relics and Pilgrimage on the Burren
     Killinaboy
     Temple Cronan
     The Veneration of the T-Shaped Crozier in North Clare
 
The Tower Houses of the Burren
     Contemporary Travellers' Accounts of Tower Houses
     Carn Mhic Tail
     Leamaneh Castle
 
Nineteenth-Century Military Fortifications on the Burren
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ARAN ISLANDS
The Colonisation and Early Settlement of the Aran Islands
     The Wedge Tombs of the Aran Islands
     The Cnoc Raithni Burial Mound, Inisheer
 
The Late Bronze Age Chiefdom of Dun Aonghasa
     The Form of the Original Late Bronze Age Hillfort
     Controlling Production at Dun Aonghasa
     Excavating Dun Aonghasa
 
The Stone Forts of the Aran Islands
     Dun Aonghasa, Inishmore
     Dun Eoghanachta, Inishmore
     The Other Stone Forts
 
Life Outside the Forts
     Baile na mBocht, Inishmore
 
Christianity and Pilgrimage on the Aran Islands
     St Enda's Monastery of Cill Einne (Killeany), Inishmore
     Temple Benan
     Tighlagheany
     Cross-Decorated Stones of the Aran Islands
     Excavating St Ciaran's Monastery (Teampaill Chiarain), Inishmore
     Temple Brecan (The Seven Churches), Inishmore
     The High Crosses of Temple Brecan
     The Leapacha of Temple Brecan
     Cill Cheanainn, Inishmaan
     Teampall Chaomhain, Inisheer
     Other Interesting Church Sites
     Radiocarbon Dating the Churches of the Aran Islands
     Clochain
 
Power Struggles on the Aran Islands
     O'Brien's Castle, Inisheer
     Arkin Fort, Inishmore
 
Archaeology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
     Signal Towers
     Roadside Cenotaphs and Wayside Cairns
 
Site Index
Maps
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
 

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