Heritage Council

16659

Royal Holloway, Department of Geography, University Of London

Examining the relationship between climate change and human activities in the wetland of Ireland

Funding to compile a high - resolution chronological and palaeoclimatic framework for the six ombrogenous bogs and their associated archaeology in the Midlands of Ireland. The tephrochronological and stable isotope research we propose to undertake part of a major programme of research involving collaboration between Archaeological Development Services Ltd and the Department of Geography, University of London.

Archaeological Development Services Ltd

16661

UCD Mícheal Ó Cléirigh Institute

Mapping Death: People, Boundaries & Territories in Ireland 1st to 8th Centuries AD

Aims to interpret burial practices as indicators of social practices, social hierarchies, cultural intrusions, boundary markers, taking possession of territories, the establishment of dynasties, religious conversion & external relationships.

UCD School of History and Archives, Dr Elizabeth O'Brien, Discovery Programme

16662

UCC Department of Archaeology

Making Christian Landscapes

This project would bring together a cross - sectoral, international, interdisciplinary team to realise the added value of some of the most important ones. Through multi - layered research these sites would be placed in their landscape context. Subsequently these landscapes would be systematically compared.

UCC, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, University of Newcastle,

16665

UCD School of Archaeology

Archaelogy in Innercity Dublin

This project will develop a multi-media exhibition and interactive website representing two Dublin communities to catalyse new (inter) Cultural understandings of the Irish past as it informs the contemporary lived landscape.

UCD School of Sociology; UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy; Dublin City Council; CREATE

16666

UCD School of Archaeology

An integrated, comprehensive GIS model of landscape evolution & landuse history in the River Boyne Valley

Aims to develop an integrated & comprehensive landscape archaeological model of the evolution of the Boyne catchment & hence develop an environmentally contextualised understanding of a key element of Ireland's archaeological heritage.

UCD School of Geography; Meath County Council; University of Southampton School of Geography; Talamh Ireland; Dundalk Institute of Technology

16669

UCD School of Archaeology

Early Medieval Archaeology Project

Through a sustained, island-wide programme of collaborative research & analysis of c.900 selected unpublished archaeological sites and the publication of a series of edited published thematic reports, book & articles, EMAP will help to transform 'data into knowledge', providing a basis for comparative archaeological research.

Queens University Belfast School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology; Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd; Margaret Gowen & Co Ltd;

16671

Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Ulster University Coleraine

Archaeological Applications of the Joint Irish Bathymetric Survey

To assess the seafloor data generated by the Joint Irish Bathymetric Survey for archaeological signatures (shipwrecks & submerged landscapes) & will result in detailed mapping of the seabed using multi-beam sonar, from Inishown, Co Donegal to Rathlin Island in Co Antrim, extending from the coastline to 3 nautical miles.

Environment and Heritage Services Northern Ireland; Marine Institute

16674

Discovery Programme

SHARE I.T. (Spatial Heritage & Archaeological Research Environment I.T.)

Aim is to investigate spatial archaeological landscape data in Ireland and to develop a WebGIS tool pilot for its exploration for use in further research.

Digital Media Centre, DIT; Margaret Gowen & Co Ltd; UCD School of Archaeology

16675

National University of Ireland, Galway

Burren Landscape and Settlement: Developing a Research Framework

To establish a research framework for Burren Archaeology through a cumulative research dynamic combining data and methodologies from five ongoing lead studies.

National Monuments Service; TVAS Ireland Ltd.; Aegis Archaeology

16676

Discovery Programme

Littoral Archaeology Project

Feasibilty study that seeks to assemble the information for the east coast, and to merge it with discussions that identify the nature of human activity along the coastline since early prehistory to c 1800 AD.

The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd; Queens University Belfast School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology; UCD School of Archaeology

16677

Kilkenny Archaeology

Archaeological Investigations in Kilkenny City 1975-2007: Phase 1, A Proposal for Knowledge Creation

Kilkenny archaeological record can be considered to be of international significance, however, the city has one of the worst publication records of any of Irelands major medieval towns. The production of a report which aims to detail a strategy to reverse this situation through a process of publication, public dissemination and knowledge creation.

Department of History, NUI Maynooth

16679

Discovery Programme

Developing a wood and charcoal database for Ireland

Development of a digital archive for archaeological and biological information, one for wood and one for charcoal.

Irish Wood Anatomist Association; Dutch State Service for Archaeology, Cultural Landscape and Monuments (RACM);

16680

Dublin City Council

Medieval Dublin City Archaeological Research Agenda

To undertake an archaeological research agenda for the medieval city.

Margaret Gowen & Co Ltd; Department of Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin; O'Connor Sutton, Cronin & Associates Engineers; Lisa Edden Engineers

16682

Queens University Belfast School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology

Cultivating Societies: assessing the evidence for agriculture in Neolithic Ireland

This project will establish the nature, extent and timing of the earliest farming in Ireland through collation, integration and analysis of published and unpublished archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological, palaeoecological, C14, stable isotope and archaeological data.

Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford; Meriel McClatchie; National Roads Authority; Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd; School of Archaeology UCD; National Museums Scotland; Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Environment Department, University of York

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