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The Journal of Irish Archaeology Volume XXXIV First published in 2025 The Journal of Irish Archaeology is published by Wordwell Ltd, Suite 5, 'Hub 17', 17 Corrig Rd, Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18, Eircode D18 N6K8, on behalf of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland. www.wordwellbooks.com Copyright © The authors Layout and design © Wordwell All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or otherwise without either the prior written consent of the publishers or a licence permitting restricted copying in Ireland issued by the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 63 Patrick Street, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Submissions: all correspondence should be addressed to the Editor. Subscriptions: €20 (individual) €50 (institutional) For digital subscription visit https://reader.exacteditions.com ISBN 978-1-916742-31-4 ISSN 0268-537X Typeset in Ireland by Wordwell Ltd Copy-editor: Emer Condit Cover design: Nick Maxwell Printed by: SprintBooks, Dublin Cover image: Fair plan of Castledermot town, Co. Kildare, 1837 (NAI OS 105/A125.1) The Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland is grateful for the generous sponsorship of this journal by the following institutions and companies. NMS Seirbhis Séadchomharthal Naisiúnta National Monuments Service UCD DUBLIN IAC Archaeology TIV Bonneagar lompair Eireann Transport Infrastructure Ireland OLLSCOIL NA GAILLIMHE UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY mus Ard-Mhúsaem na hEireann eum National Museum of Ireland ABARTA HERITAGE AMS CD The Discovery Programme Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES UNIT ARchaeology ano buile heritase TVAS IRELAND LTD RUBICON archaeology
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CONTENTS KERRI CLEARY Editorial V BEN SPILLANE Staking a claim in the lower Suir Valley: a chronological and spatial analysis of a Middle Bronze Age micro-landscape at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford 1 BRUCE SUTTON, SCOTT TIMPANY, LORNA O'DONNELL AND SARAH-JANE HASTON Timber and fire: a multi-proxy environmental investigation of a burnt mound site at Pollsharvoge, Co. Mayo 27 NEIL JACKMAN, SUSAN CURRAN, PETRA SCHNEIDHOFER, CHRISTER TONNING, ROBERT SHAW AND GER DOWLING A Viking settlement on the Suir-reappraising the story of Woodstown through geophysical survey 51 GARY DEMPSEY Building identity: patronage and stonemasons in the west of Ireland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 81 MICK MONGEY Leinster Cooking Ware revisited 113 MICHAEL O'MAHONY Shaping space in stone: the spatio-structural development of Irish tower-houses and their connection to British tower-houses 137 MARION DOWD 'Every night, the crying of babies': folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds) 163 AIDAN HARTE, JOANNA BRÜCK AND NIALL MURRAY The archaeology of conflict in east Limerick, 1917-23 179 ARNOLD HORNER Using the Ordnance Survey 'fair plans' to explore the cultural landscape of pre-Famine Ireland: examples from County Westmeath 203 REPORTS MARION DOWD, MARCO DE MARTINO, MARGARET MCCARTHY AND CLAUDIO OTTONI Earliest direct-dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) from Ireland 225 ALAN HAWKES A recent discovery of Beaker pottery at Barnahely, Co. Cork 235

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CONTENTS

KERRI CLEARY Editorial

V

BEN SPILLANE Staking a claim in the lower Suir Valley: a chronological and spatial analysis of a Middle Bronze Age micro-landscape at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford

1

BRUCE SUTTON, SCOTT TIMPANY, LORNA O'DONNELL AND SARAH-JANE HASTON Timber and fire: a multi-proxy environmental investigation of a burnt mound site at Pollsharvoge, Co. Mayo

27

NEIL JACKMAN, SUSAN CURRAN, PETRA SCHNEIDHOFER, CHRISTER TONNING, ROBERT SHAW AND GER DOWLING A Viking settlement on the Suir-reappraising the story of Woodstown through geophysical survey

51

GARY DEMPSEY Building identity: patronage and stonemasons in the west of Ireland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

81

MICK MONGEY Leinster Cooking Ware revisited

113

MICHAEL O'MAHONY Shaping space in stone: the spatio-structural development of Irish tower-houses and their connection to British tower-houses

137

MARION DOWD 'Every night, the crying of babies': folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds)

163

AIDAN HARTE, JOANNA BRÜCK AND NIALL MURRAY The archaeology of conflict in east Limerick, 1917-23

179

ARNOLD HORNER Using the Ordnance Survey 'fair plans' to explore the cultural landscape of pre-Famine Ireland: examples from County Westmeath

203

REPORTS

MARION DOWD, MARCO DE MARTINO, MARGARET MCCARTHY AND CLAUDIO OTTONI Earliest direct-dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) from Ireland

225

ALAN HAWKES A recent discovery of Beaker pottery at Barnahely, Co. Cork

235

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