Heritage Week 2025 Projects and Events

Heritage Week 2025 has several events where the results of TII archaeological and heritage works are being featured, as well as events where TII Archaeologists will be presenting papers.

 

Saturday 16 August to Saturday 23 August

Heritage sites and the landscapes - Macroom Library public display

This public display, by Cork County Council, focuses on four important cultural heritage sites in the immediate vicinity of the new N22 Baile Bhuirne to Macroom road. It includes site descriptions and a record of their topographical and landscape characteristics as pertained prior to the new N22 road development. The four heritage sites are: the War of Independence ambush site at Cúil na Cathrach, Carrigaphooca Castle and curtilage, the stone circle at Carrigaphooca, and the Civil War engagement at Carrigaphooca.

Library opening times: 9:30 to 17:30, Tuesdays to Saturdays. Please note that this display will be at Macroom Library throughout the month of August.

 

Saturday 16 August (13:00 to 17:00) and Sunday 17 August (10:00 to 17:00)

 

Thursday 21 August

Foundations:TII Heritage Week Seminar 2025

This year's TII Heritage Week Seminar will take place on Thursday, 21 August, at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 HH58.

For this year's seminar, we have a fantastic range of speakers who will be discussing the archaeology of several periods from the Neolithic to the Emergency era. There will be numerous papers relating to the archaeological work currently taking place on the Limerick to Foynes road scheme, and a particular highlight will be a paper on the wonderful Ardshanbally Brooch-Pin that is currently on display in the Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Ireland.

We are delighted to welcome early career archaeologists who participated in our AYIA@TII Heritage Week 2025 call for papers and will participate in Session 2, which we organised in collaboration with the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists.

Please note that images of human remains may be displayed during the seminar.

Click here to book a place at the seminar via Eventbrite.

 

Doors open: 09:00

Registration and Tea/Coffee: 09:00 to 09:40

 

Session 1: 09:50 to 11:20 (followed by tea/coffee)

• The Forgotten Defenders - pillboxes of the Shannon Estuary
  • Bryn Coldrick, AMS
• Trade goods and manufacturing in the 13th-century Norman borough of Claregalway, Co. Galway
  • Muireann Ní Cheallacháin, IAC
• Fuel for Thought: Irish burnt mounds as an underappreciated resource for wood charcoal studies
  
  • Bruce Sutton, independent researcher

 Session 2: 11:50 to 13:10 (followed by a light lunch)

• A Review of Non-Violence Related Trauma During the Medieval Period in the Irish Archaeological Record
  
  • Rhianna Hawke, independent researcher
• A Journey through Sligo in the Early Neolithic
  
  • Maoliosa Kiely, independent researcher
• Bronze Age Upland Settlement Dynamics in Ireland: considering climate impacts on settlement patterns
  
  • Cherie Edwards, independent researcher

 Session 3: 14:00 to 15:20 (followed by tea/coffee)

• Thermal Insights: thermal imaging and its practical applications for archaeological excavations
  
  • Liamóg Roche and Sean Tiffin, AMS
• In Search of Meaning: the Ardshanbally brooch-pin
  
  • John Channing, AMS and Róisín Nic Cnáimhín, NMI 

Each session will include time for questions and answers.

 

Following the close of seminar, TII has arranged a visit to the National Museum of Ireland's Words on the Wave exhibition. This visit is fully booked, however, you can add your name to the waiting listing on the registration form in case spaces become free.

Please note it is a five-minute walk to Kildare Street, and the exhibition has restricted accessibility. There is a ramp to the right-hand side of the Museum entrance and at the back of the ground floor there stairs up to the exhibition on the upper floor.The stairs comprise of 7 steps, then a small landing, 14 steps, then another small landing, 7 steps, then another small landing, then there are 4 steps onto the main landing. You will then enter the balcony area and turn right, there are a further 7 steps up here. At the end, in front of you is the ‘Words on the Wave’ entrance, and there are 8 wooden stairs down into the exhibition space itself.

The Museum has a Step-Free access arrangement in place with the Houses of Oireachtas, to provide lift access, this is at specific times on Monday afternoons or Fridays to the Exhibition, for visitors who use wheelchairs or have physical access requirements. This needs to be booked in advance and more information about this arrangement can be found on the museum website here.

 

Registration is in accordance with T&C TII Archaeology and Heritage Events.

 

Sunday 24 August

Milltown: a celebration of heritage, history and homegrown talent

This event features a wide range of heritage events hosted at the Milltown Community Centre, Milltown, Tuam, Co. Galway, H54 D579. The programme for the day includes a Museum Open Day (11:00 to 14:00), a short film screening (11:30), a musical performance (11:45), and an archaeology lecture on the N17 Milltown to Gortnagunned road project (12:00).

 

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(Last updated: 25 July 2025)