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2024 Ríocht na Midhe contents

  1. The Moynagh Lough Project: an update on post-excavation research. Michael Potterton
  2. Final Report on the research Excavations at Newgrange Farm Cursus 2018. Geraldine Stout, Michael Stout with others.
  3. Secundinus - The Lost Apostle of Ireland. Noel French
  4. The Kings of the Reputed Descendants of Lóegaire of Tara c. 642- 1160. Eoghan Moore
  5. The Borough of Newtown Trim and the road to Trim. Finola O'Carroll
  6. Stolen by night in 1007: A Crux in the History of the Book of Kells. Cormac Bourke
  7. Saint Erc's Hermitage. George Knight
  8. The Origins and Interconnections of Three Eighteenth Century Landowners in the Barony of Demifore, Co. Meath. Una Palcic
  9. Heraldic Gateways, a Fotetaste of Splendours to come. Séamus Bellew
  10. From obscurity to the halls of the Great: a Meath Portraitist and art administrator - Martin Cregan, PRHA (1788-1870). Frank Cogan
  11. From Drumconrath to Van Dieman's Land: John Donnellan Balfe (1816-80). Danny Cusack
  12. Some Trim Townlands, 1821-1911. Aileen Wynne
  13. The Life and Legacy of a Troubled Earl. Edward Henry Stuart Bligh 7th Earl of Darnley, 1851-1900. Bernard Walsh
  14. Having been myself a native of Meath, Máire Ní Raghallaigh (1867-1941). Larry Ward

And various book reviews and reports from the Council.

Volume 35


Dates for your diary:

The George Eogan Memorial Lecture

will take place on Sunday, 24th November 2024  at 3pm

in the George Eogan Cultural & Heritage Centre, Nobber, Co. Meath. A82 WY10

“Brú na Bóinne Connections at Knockroe Passage Tomb, County Kilkenny”

Speaker: Dr Muiris O’Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, UCD.

Knockroe passage tomb is about the size of a large satellite tomb at Knowth but, otherwise, it stands in the same company as the great tumuli at Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth. This presentation coincides with the submission of the definitive report on the Knockroe excavation programme to the Royal Irish Academy, which is most appropriate because it was the late Professor George Eogan who first suggested that Dr O'Sullivan might consider excavating the Knockroe site.

Muiris O’Sullivan is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at UCD.  He has long been associated with the study of passage tombs, including the Boyne Valley where he worked on George Eogan’s excavations at Knowth in the early1980s and his own projects, the publication in 2005 of the Mound of the Hostages, Tara, arising from excavations by Seán P. Ó Ríordáin in the 1950s and the excavation of the passage tomb at Knockroe, Co. Kilkenny, a comprehensive report on which is to be completed in Nov. 2024. In recent years, he was the lead archaeological consultant for the revised visitor experience at the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, opened in November 2019. His wide range of publications includes a long-running Archaeology Ireland series with Liam Downey under the banner ‘Know Your Monuments’.  As a lecturer in Archaeology at UCD, he served as director of the UCD international Summer School in Irish Studies (1999-2002), Head of Archaeology (2004-2008) and Dean of Arts (2014-2015). He also served as a member of the Heritage Council(2016-2020).

Light refreshments served.

Knockroe Passage Tomb, more here.

Note: our final lecture of the year will take place on Sunday 8th December at 3pm in St Mary's Church of Ireland, Navan when Michael O'Neill will make a presentation on “Church of Ireland Churches in Meath”.

MAHS Inquiries: Tom French, Hon. Sec. (087 4119633)


€500 Prizes for Postgraduate Research

The Meath Archaeological and Historical Society and Meath County Council Heritage Forum offer prizes of up to €500 for postgraduate research in any discipline, commencing after September 2011, devoted wholly or in significant part to any aspect of the heritage (archaeology, history, literature, etc.) of the Meath / Westmeath region.

Entries should be submitted in the form of one or more articles for publication in Ríocht na Midhe. Each entry must be vouched for by the writer's Supervisor of Research. Adjudication will be by a panel appointed by MAHS.

The most recent recipient, Aidan Gilsenan being congratulated by Séamus MacGabhann.

Entries to the Hon. Secretary. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 


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