Unveiling of archaeological sign at Terryland
Brian Burke (Galway City Council), Declan Moore (Moore Group) and Jerry O’Sullivan (Galway County Council) attend the unveiling of a new archaeological sign at Terryland. Galway City Council unveiled the sign commemorating the discovery of the skeletal remains adjacent to Terryland Castle which were excavated in 2013 by archaeologists from Moore Group. The remains were uncovered […]
DYKE ROAD REMAINS
Archaeological investigations were carried out by Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd. at Terryland, near the Dyke Road, Galway in early 2013. The archaeological team led by Billy Quinn excavated 10 individuals buried just below the existing surface. The human remains were discovered following archaeological testing of the site during the construction of a proposed […]
INISHFOOD AND FEILE GRIANAN, BEER INFOGRAPHIC
Here’s a big beer infographic for you all… In the latest ancient beer news (I, know, would we just give it up now) – at the weekend we bottled our ale for Féile Grianán Áiligh and samples for Inishfood 2013. Féile Grianán is held at Grianan hillfort, Co. Donegal, one of Ireland’s most spectacular hillforts […]
BLOGGING THE ENVIRONMENT
Continuing our series of old posts, ones we feel were good, prescient or elicited some good conversation or debate, this post was first published in January 2008. It was posted in response to a radio piece by self-described ‘neo-luddite’ John Waters and was the first time we touched upon communicating archaeology and the environment. The subject […]
PEARSE STREET ATHLONE MONITORING
Pearse Street, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Archaeological Monitoring 20365 24120 NA 10E430 A programme of archaeological monitoring was carried out in the vicinity of the Revenue Commissioners Building off Pearse Street, Athlone, Co. Westmeath and along Pearse Street. The works involved the installation of a proposed gas main extension along Pearse Street (approx. 77m of 125mm […]
SLIGO TOWN MONITORING
Various, Sligo Town Archaeological Monitoring Various Various 10E285 Archaeological monitoring of engineering slit trenches and test pits in advance of the proposed Sligo town Water Conservation scheme took place around Sligo town and environs between mid October and mid November 2010. Moore Group, in a previous archaeological assessment (March 2010) for the project, had demarcated […]
How to make a ‘Viking’ Ale in 4 easy steps
Here’s a short comic we made about how to make the ‘Viking’ Ale, which has been reported widely on, to our surprise.. (see here, here, here and here). We spent Sunday bottling and experimenting with another variation (which didn’t quite succeed – more on that some other time). Our ‘Viking Ale’ has turned out to […]
Drumaskibbole Fulacht Part 2
Author of original report and Site Director: Tom Rogers During Construction works for the realignment of the R284 from Drumaskibbole to Ballygawley in County Sligo, Tom Rogers of Moore Group excavated a fulacht fiadh and two stone trackways (along with a number of assorted other features). This is part 2 of a 2 part post […]
Drumaskibbole Fulacht Part 1
Author of original report and Site Director: Tom Rogers During Construction works for the realignment of the R284 from Drumaskibbole to Ballygawley in County Sligo, Tom Rogers of Moore Group excavated a fulacht fiadh and two stone trackways (along with a number of assorted other features). Slightly south of Drumaskibbole the road bends sharply, first […]
More on the Barnhill Roundhouse
Part one of the Roundhouse report here… The round house was basically defined by an inner semi-circular, contiguous footing trench with a single outer ring of postholes. Unfortunately the entire site to the east had been excavatedby machine for the foundation of the reservoir leaving only the western half of the house remaining. The internal […]
Moore Group Twitter
By now, almost everyone has heard of Twitter, the ‘micro-blogging’ social network. For anyone who hasn’t, its a tool which facilitates short posts commenting on what you are doing right now, announcing events or happenings etc.. Users post maximum 140 character updates (or “tweets”) to the site which can be read by their ‘followers’, and you […]
19th Century Burial in Ireland – Part III
Part III of our paper in the JIA. St Brigid’s Hospital, Ballinasloe A second excavation of 19th Century burials was carried out within the grounds of St Brigid’s Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway in August 2002. Part of the grounds had been acquired by Galway County Council for the construction of a slip road and burials […]
Tayleur Wreck
Originally published in the Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology in 2004, we’ve posted below Eoghan’s paper by way of commemorating 154 years since the sinking of the Tayleur in January 1854. Tayleur, a victim of technological innovation On 21 January 1854, the British-built Iron Clipper, Tayleur was wrecked on Lambay Island, 21 […]
Ryanair Ad
Booking flights tonight and couldn’t resist linking to Ryanair’s latest ad. Make sure to scroll down to Ireland on the top right! EDIT – Ad has been removed – This is it:
