Rethinking Medieval Ireland and Beyond

Victoria McAlister, Ph.D. (2013), Trinity College Dublin, is Assistant Professor of History at Towson University. She is the author of The Irish Tower House: Society, Economy and Environment, c. 1300-1650 (2019) and numerous other works on the Irish medieval built and natural environments.Linda Shine, Ph.D. (2011), Trinity College Dublin, is an archaeologist with the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland. She is the author of a number of peer reviewed publications on rural medieval settlement in Ireland and on public archaeology. She is the secretary of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement.

• ContentsForewordAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesPublications by T.B. BarryNotes on ContributorsIntroductionVictoria L. McAlister and Linda ShinePART 1: Reappraising Watery Settlement1 Moated Sites in Ireland: The Current State of KnowledgeKieran O’Conor2 Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough KeyThomas Finan and James G. Schryver3 Form, Function and Fluidity in Castles: Water and Fortification in Medieval BritainOliver Creighton and Robert HighamPART 2: Rethinking Material Culture4 Power and Literacy in Viking-Age DublinMary Valante5 Possessions, Luxury Objects, and Identity in Late Medieval IrelandMargaret Murphy6 Zooarchaeological Views into Late Medieval IrelandJohn SoderbergPART 3: Settlement and Landscape Afterlives7 The Decline of the Settlement at ClonmacnoiseConleth Manning8 What Is Lost Can Be Found: History and Geographical Information Systems as Tools for Identifying Deserted Medieval Rural SettlementVictoria L. McAlister and Jennifer Immich9 Intelligence and Landscapes: Past, Present, and FutureCalder WaltonPART 4: Settlements in the Medieval and Modern Landscape10 Stagonil, Powerscourt Demesne, County Wicklow: A Sub Manor of the Archbishop of DublinChristiaan Corlett11 Arklow and the Cistercians: A Medieval Borough and Manor ReconsideredStephen H. Harrison12 The End of Lagore: Later First Millennium CE, Medieval, Post-medieval and Modern Activity on an Early Medieval Royal SiteRaghnall Ó FloinnBibliographyIndex