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Dated to 470–120 BC, National Museum of Ireland Close view of head and torso Gallagh Man is the name given to a preserved Iron Age bog body found in County Galway , Ireland , in 1821. The remains date to c. 470–120 BC , and are of a six-foot (1.8 m) tall, healthy male with dark and reddish hair, who is estimated to have been about 25 years ...
He served as Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork from 1936 until 1943, then as Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin from 1943 until his death in 1957. As a professor, he influenced a generation of Irish archaeologists, notably Michael J. O'Kelly and Rúaidhrí de Valera. [1]
Details of the hundred objects, written by Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole, were initially serialized in The Irish Times between February 2011 and January 2013. In February 2013 a book about the hundred objects written by O'Toole, entitled A History of Ireland in 100 Objects , was published, and it quickly became a best-seller with 35,000 ...
Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved Irish Iron Age bog body found in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
Cashel Man is a bog body from a bog near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland. He was found on 10 August 2011 [1] by Bord na Móna employee Jason Phelan from Abbeyleix. The body was a young adult male, around 20–25, [2] who had been intentionally covered with peat after death. The crouched figure was recovered after being damaged by a milling ...
The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology (Irish: Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann – Seandálaíocht, often known as the "NMI") is a branch of the National Museum of Ireland located on Kildare Street in Dublin, Ireland, that specialises in Irish and other antiquities dating from the Stone Age to the Late Middle Ages
Cruciform passage graves describe a complex example of prehistoric passage grave found in Ireland, west Wales and Orkney and built during the later Neolithic, from around 3500 BC and later. [1] They are distinguished by a long passage leading to a central chamber with a corbelled roof. From this, burial chambers extend in three directions ...
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland was founded first in 1930 by the National Monuments Advisory Council when the National Monuments Act 1930 [2] came into effect. A central archive was established in 1933 under the direction of the Inspector of National Monuments, Harold G. Leask , to collect published materials about all archaeological sites ...