Graduate Student Research (completed)

Completed PhD, MLitt and MA theses (Archaeology)

PhD
Dr Daniel Curley	A multi-disciplinary study of lordly centres in the later medieval Uí Chellaig lordship of Uí Maine, c. 1100-1600 AD (2021).
Dr Enda O'Flaherty	Archaeological watermarks: settlement and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland (2020)
Dr Peter Casby	Living trees in created environments of Gaelic Ireland c. 700-1600AD (2019)
Dr Daisy Spencer	People, Land-use and Time: Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data to the archaeological record of prehistoric Co. Clare, Ireland (2019)
Dr Karina Hensel	The symbolism of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge in Early Medieval Irish Christian art and iconography (2017)
Dr Yolande O'Brien	Negociating the landscape: prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscaper of esker and bog (2017)
Dr Betty Gray	Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland (2016)
Dr Richard Gray	Settlement clusters at parish churches in Ireland, c. 1200-1600AD (2016)
Dr Eugene Costello	Transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in settlement and society in post-medieval Ireland, c. 1500 - 1900 AD. (2016)
Dr Thor McVeigh	Calenders, feasting, cosmology and identity: Later Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Ireland in European context. (2016)
Dr Richard Clutterbuck	Rural Landscapes of Improvement in Ireland, 1650-1850: An archaeological Landscape Study (2015)
Dr Andrew Whitefield	Sustainable change: temporality and the Neolithic in Western Ireland (2015)
Dr Catriona Gleeson	Archaeological evidence for social differentiation in the Irish medieval town (2014)
Dr Philis Mercer	Ritual Aspects of Irish Portal Tombs (2014)
Dr Fiona Gavin	Insular Ornamental Metalwork AD300-500: ‘Military Style’ inspired art in Ireland and Britain (2014)
Dr Ros Ó Maoldúin	Exchange in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) Ireland: Connecting people, objects and ideas (2014)
Dr Katherine Leonard	Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland – material culture, practices, landscape setting, and social context (2014)
Dr Margaret Mannion	Glass Beads of Early Medieval Ireland (2013)
Dr Theresa McDonald	Booleying in Achill, Achill Beg and Corraun: Survey, Excavation and Analysis of Booley Settlements in the Civil Parish of Achill (2013)
Dr Eve Campbell	Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: studies of transplantation settlements in Connacht and Clare (2012)
Dr Fiona Beglane	Parks and deer hunting: evidence from medieval Ireland (2012)
Dr Yvonne McDermott	Patronage and Observance: the Franciscans and Dominicans in the lordships of MacWilliam Iochtar and MacWilliam Uachtar, 1330-1550 (2012)
Dr Miriam Clyne	Irish medieval Premonstratensian monasteries and their European context (2010)
Dr Christy Cunniffe	Medieval Clonfert: the genesis, development and decline of a Gaelic cathedral town (2010)
Dr Robert Hensey	Ritual and belief in the passage tomb tradition of Ireland (2010)
Dr Noel McCarthy	The prehistoric archaeology of Slieve Gamph: movement, place and patterns (2010)
Dr Siobhán McDermott	Iconic Landscapes: settlement and society in Truagh, north County Monaghan, c. 1591-1800 (2010)
Dr Gerard Dowling	The architecture of power: an examination of the concept of closely-spaced multivallation in Ireland (2009)
Dr Jacqui O'Hara	A landscape archaeology of later medieval Fermanagh (2009)
Dr Paul Naessens	The Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh Gaelic lordship of Iarchonnacht: medieval lordly settlement on the Atlantic seaboard (2009)
Dr James McKeon	Anglo-Norman frontier urban settlement in the Plantagenet realm: studies from south Connacht (2008)
Dr Roseanne Schot	Uisneach, Co. Westmeath: archaeology, history and legend (Prehistory - c. AD 1100) (2008)
Dr Rory Sherlock	The social environment of the Irish tower house (2008)
Dr Diarmuid Ó Seaneachain	English plantation settlement and the lost indigenous landscapes of Ulster and Chesapeake Bay in the sixteenth century (2006)
Dr Colin Breen	The archaeology and cultural landscape history of Bantry and Beara 1200-1650 (2004)
Dr Michelle Comber	The economy of the ringfort in Early Historic Ireland (2000)
MLitt
Andy Kellogg	The early medieval royal assembly sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair: a comparative study of their settlement and landscape contexts (2020).
Mary Eleanor Pereira	A land of wind, of rock and of water: medieval settlement and environment in the Landscape of Killary Fjord, Mweelrea Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean (2019)
Mary Collette Allen	The landscapes of Buí the Cailleach Bhéarra (2017)
Colleen O'Hara	The cultural context of Ulster coarse pottery c. 1200-1650 (2010)
Daniel Tietzch-Tyler	The value of archaeological reconstruction drawing to the archaeologist and non-specialist (2010)
Killian Driscoll	The early prehistory in the west of Ireland: Investigations into the social archaeology of the Mesolithic, west of the Shannon, Ireland.
Matthew Logue	The castle of Greencastle, Co. Donegal (2006)
John Malcolm	Castles and English lordship in Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe, c.1235- c.1400 (2004)
Niamh Walsh	The early medieval sculpture at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal: iconography, context and date (2003)
Helen Bermingham	Priests' residences in late medieval Ireland (2001)
Oliver McHugh	Crannogs in the barony of Monaghan: a case for late occupation in a Gaelic Lordship (2000)
MA in Archaeology
Kate Crossin (USA)		Avery's Rest Plantation: A GIS interpretation of distributional patterns of Plowzone artifacts in an Early Colonial context (2015)
Joshua Guy		Strokestown House and Parklands: a biography of its presentation as a public space (2015)
Kathryn Ruble (USA)		A critical appraisal of heritage management approaches to shared stewardship: The State Preservation Officer Program and Heritage Officer Network (2015)
Dara Keane		The Dunbell raths, Co. Kilkenny, from 1852 to the present day: antiquarians, artefacts and monuments in a disappearing landscape (2007)
Sandra Burke		The iconography of zoomorphic penannular brooches (2007)
MA in Landscape Archaeology
Margaret Murphy		Roscommon Castle (2002)
MA in Medieval Studies
Erin Britton		Fiddaun Castle: An O'Shaughnessy Tower House (2008)

		Note: A full list of the completed MA in Landscape Archaeology theses can be found on the 'MA in Landscape Archaeology research' page.