Wicklow Community Archaeology

Join us on 14 June for a fantastic walking tour of Glendalough Valley. We will start at 10.00 at the Monastic Site and continuing to visit the recent excavations, the Upper Lake and on to the Mining Village to finish c. 4.30pm. For more information visit: shorturl.at/sZSP1

@DrRebeccaboyd @inkdropart That’s brilliant @DrRebeccaboyd we have all the headstones transcribed so that will be going online soon!

@CommArchWick @inkdropart Whitefield is on my agenda next time I'm home. Kids had great fun figuring out our relations in the graves.

Look at Sunday's beautiful blue sky at Kilcommon and Tomnafinogue. Featuring @CommArchWick and @inkdropart's fantastic interpretive panel and graveyard survey

‘Evidence for Native Irish, Anglo-Norman and New English Surnames in the Names of Wicklow Townlands' Dr Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich will be giving a lecture in Baltinglass on this topic next Tuesday, 23rd April. Ná cailligí é! westwicklowhistoricalsociety.ie/news-and-event…

Talk by Dr Stephen Harrison on Arklow and the Cistercians- A Medieval Borough and Manor Reconsidered. Thursday 4th April at 8pm Arklow Maritime Museum. #CMF

@JimRyanWW Lovely thread Jim! Those lovely crosses probably fine by a local blacksmith. The cross is early medieval and was modified at a later date. Just checked Nms website and it says it was possibly unfinished too back in the day. Dermot is buried in a lovely spot.

My main reason for visiting is to say a prayer and think of Dermot, who broke all our hearts when he left us too soon in 95. I like to think of him kind, quiet, friendly, trips to the shop at lunchtime for crisps and football after. I think of him often. Almost 30 years gone.💔

Rathdangan is the kind of place that 'áit iargúlta' was made for. Cranerin Graveyard is further away again towards the Glen of Imaal. I have a special reason for visiting here, but I'll leave that to the end. It is set overlooking the community below with its holy well under yew.

Kilcommon Church is an early medieval ecclesiastical site located in County Wicklow. originally known as Cill Chomáin or the church of St Comáin. This illustration depicting the saint’s feast on 25th December was produced as part of Historical graveyards project in Co. Wicklow

Our colleague Muireann Ní Cheallacháin @12greengiraffes will be in good company at the upcoming #IPMAG conference in Thurles 9-11th February, talking about her @IACArchaeology excavation of a vernacular house in #Glendalough #Wicklow. @wicklowcoco @CommArchWick @NatlMonuments

Leaving the best till last right? 😆😅 I am really looking forward to these great talks and to sharing some lovely photos and 3D models of my lovely Glendalough cottage #heritage

Wouldn't it be great to twin schools with monuments? Matching experts with the next generations to be caretakers of our heritage. Any class I've ever brought to St. Canice's Graveyard in Finglas has been blown away by it. I'm hoping the same for Old Kilpipe in the future.

Conservation works underway at Arklow Castle thanks to @NationalMons for #cmf2023 funding

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Nice piece on the @TIINews-funded archaeological excavations by teams from @rubiconheritage and @tvasireland on the @Corkcoco M28 Cork-Ringaskiddy project

The National Monuments Service is pleased to announce that a new version of the Historic Environment Viewer (HEV) is now live heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappvie… Improved query tool, data export & additional basemap options now available Pls email feedback to nationalmonuments@housing.gov.ie

@irishhistory @nphegarty Got mine today !

“A Lethal Legacy offers the reader a true people's history - and a fresh and compelling perspective on two hundred years of Irish life” @nphegarty on ‘A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.’ It launches Thurs but you can pre-order now at the link in my bio!

Congratulations to the team from @archerheritage who wrote a report on @TIINews-funded excavations of a multiperiod site at the marvellously named Dragoonhill along the N81 in #Wicklow just published in @Archaeology_Irl

@jameseogan Thanks James it’s a great article!

One for you @CommArchWick