National Archaeology Seminar 2011

The 2011 NRA National Archaeology Seminar takes place on Thursday 25 August at the City Wall Space, Wood Quay Venue, Dublin Civic Offices, Dublin 8. The title of this year's seminar is Encounters Between Peoples. To register please contact Lillian Butler at +353 1 6602511 or lbutler@nra.ie

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Programme of Talks

9.30 am Registration
10.00 am Welcome and introduction
Rónán Swan, NRA Head of Archaeology (acting)

10.10 am Dunsinane 3: an Early Neolithic house in County Wexford
Derek Gallagher
10.30 am The Lismullin enclosure—design beyond the obvious in the Iron Age
Frank Prendergast
10.50 am Camlin: the archaeology of a townland in County Tipperary
Colm Flynn

11.10 am Questions & answers
11.20 am Tea/coffee

11.30 am Encounters between people in the 14th century: consideration of a ‘Gaelic’ site at Killeisk, Co. Tipperary, and an ‘Anglo-Norman’ site at Busherstown, Co. Offaly
Jacinta Kiely & Paul MacCotter
11.50 am Gaelic settlement in the Norman Lordship of Connacht
Jerry O’Sullivan
12.10 pm Natives and newcomers: plantation archaeology on Irish road schemes
James Lyttleton

12.30 pm Questions & answers
12.50 pm Lunch

2.30 pm Burial and ritual in early medieval north Wexford: new evidence from Ask townland
Paul Stevens
2.40 pm A furnished grave from Woodstown, Co. Waterford: rites, rights and identities in the early Viking Age
Stephen H Harrison
3.00 pm Post-medieval settlement patterns and community on the N17/N18 in County Galway
Brian Mac Domhnaill

3.20 pm Questions & answers