The Burren and the Aran Islands : exploring the archaeology /
"The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in its archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies, however, have shed considerable light...
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Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork :
Collins Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The first people on the Burren
- The first farmers on the Burren
- From Neolithic to Bronze Age
- Gold, power and war
- Celts?
- The coming of Christianity
- Cahercommaun and the early medieval chiefdoms of the Burren
- Medieval churches and society of the Burren
- Relics and pilgrimage on the Burren
- The tower houses of the Burren
- Nineteenth-century military fortifications on the Burren
- The colonisation and early settlement of the Aran Islands
- The Late Bronze Age chiefdom of Dún Aonghasa
- The stone forts of the Aran Islands
- Life outside the forts
- Christianity and pilgrimage on the Aran Islands
- Power struggles on the Aran Islands
- Archaeology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.