Table of Contents:
  • General background
  • A close-up of Cork
  • Education and societies
  • Collectors, artefacts and lithographs
  • Moves towards organized structures
  • Issues and debates
  • Fieldwork and excavation
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Appendix 1. Biographical details of some eminent antiquarians and scientists of the period
  • Appendix 2. Antiquarian and archaeological societies in Cork up to 1870.