Current Postgraduates

• Allen, Shauna
  Curating Change: A Trans-Atlantic Study of Activism in Museums (PhD)
• Daly, Niamh
  ‘Til Death Do Us Part’: A bioarchaeological investigation of female kinship ties in Early Medieval Ireland (PhD)
• McCabe, Margaret
  Repatriation Claims on Cultural Material from Former British Colonies in Museums in Britain and Ireland: Using Experiences to Effect Change
• Nic Cnáimhín, Róisín
  A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Faunal Remains from Caherconnell Cashel
• Robinson, Stephanie
  The Bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: Health, Disease, and Trauma
• Sikora, Maeve
  Feasting and Dining Vessels in Early Medieval Ireland (PhD)

Recent Postgraduate Research

Following is a list of recent research theses and MA dissertations submitted at the Department of Archaeology (alphabetically by year, since 2009).

For a complete list of department theses, please visit our Theses Collection page.

• Burlot, Aurelien
  Ireland and France in the third Millennium BC (PhD)

• Colbert, Kate
  Medieval grave slabs in south-east Ireland (PhD)

• Harris, Caen
  Industrial archaeology of brewing in early modern Ireland (PhD)

• O'Riordan, Edward
  The perception of ringforts in Early Modern Ireland (PhD)

• Kearney, Kevin
  Investigations of human-environment interactions on the Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry, South-West Ireland (PhD)

• Lyons, Susan
  Wood use and woodland management in Medieval Ireland: An environmental and landscape study (PhD)

• O'Sullivan, Clare
  Aspects of rock art conservation in south-west Ireland

• Talbot, Thomas
  The Earliest Church Sites in Ireland AD 400 – 550: Landscape archaeology and the process of conversion (PhD)

• O'Sullivan, Ciarraí
  Territory and Community in Early Medieval Ireland: A Landscape Archaeology of the Túatha of Uí Chonaill, Co Limerick (MPhil)

• Collins, Tracy
  An archaeology of female monasticism in Medieval Ireland (PhD)

• Dolan, Robert
  The prehistoric barrows of Co. Limerick (MPhil)

• Higgins, Michelle
  Place-names and archaeology of early ecclesiastical settlement in Cork and 'The Decies' (MPhil)

• Lineen, James
  Spearheads of the Irish Bronze Age (PhD)

• O'Driscoll, James
  The prehistoric hillforts of Co. Wicklow (PhD)

• Beatty, Katherine (PhD)
  Skin and Bone: The face in the archaeological imagination
• Curtin, Niamh (PhD)
  Pottery production and consumption in Ireland in the twelfth/sixteenth centuries

• Boazman, Gill (PhD)
  Theme and Variations: Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland
• Brea, Alejandro Manteiga (MPhil)
  Bronze hoarding and metal circulation in the Atlantic Bronze Age
• Brewster, Ciarán (PhD)
  A craniometric study of population dynamics and social organisation in the European Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
• Callaghan, Francesca (MPhil)
  Bodies Beneath, Betwixt and Between. A Theoretical Reassessment of the site of Cloghermore Cave
• Coleman, Adel (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Liam de Paor's excavations of the early medieval enclosure at Back of the Hill, Co. Longford, 1967
• Geaney, Maire (PhD)
  Medieval carpentry in Ireland: Continuity and change
• Gleeson, Patrick (PhD)
  Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland, AD400-1150
  
• Hawkes, Alan (PhD)
  Fulachtaí Fia, burnt mounds and infrastructural archaeology in Ireland
• Lynch, Linda (PhD)
  An assessment of health in Post-medieval Ireland: 'One vast lazar house filled with famine, disease and death'
• Martin, Rebecca (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  A palaeoparasitic approach to bioarchaeology: Examining human intestinal nematodes & their place within the archaeological record
• O'Brien, Derek (MPhil)
  The importation of building and other stone in Ireland, c.1170-1400AD
• O'Brien Butler, Ciara (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Which Doctor: An archaeology of medical intervention
• O'Donnell, Jennier (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Embarrassing Bodies? Voyeurism, Manipulatiuon and Exploitation of Corporeal 'Difference'
• Organ, Neil (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The portrayal of archaeological excavation in the Irish media
• Rondelez, Paul (PhD)
  Iron working in Late Medieval Ireland, AD1200-1600
• Sharpe, Seán (MPhil)
  An analysis of the lithic assemblage from Slieve Breagh, Co. Meath
• Sheehan, Donncha (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  A review of court tomb excavation in Ireland
• Tesorieri, Mara (PhD)
  Health in the Medieval World: Regionality and the bioarchaeology of Ireland and Britain
• Walsh, Breda (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Waterford City excavations between 1993 and 2010 with reference to sites of Anglo-Norman significance (c.1170-1375) and their use in promoting the City's heritage
• Wiegand, Jane (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  A methodological study of the use of photogrammetry and articular surface area in reassociating disarticulated remains
• Vantrimpont, Julia (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Rage against the machine: Structural and interpersonal violence in an archaeological context

• O'Mahony, Daniel (MPhil)
  The Christianization of the Hiberno-Scandinavians: A comparative analysis 
• Brennan, Cormac (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Influence of the Harvard Archaeological Expedition on the Excavation of Enclosed Sites in Ireland
• Colbert, Margaret (MA Archaeological Excavation)          
  The Excavation at Centocor Barnahely, Co. Cork
• McCarthy, Bernadette (PhD)
  Monasticism and its limits: Rematerialising monastic space in Early Medieval Ireland
• Murray, Keith (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Contribution of Archaeological Excavation to the Knowledge of First World War Battlefields
• Schafer, Killian (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Cork City Walls: An Assessment Using Excavations and Other Sources
• Sullivan, Sarah (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  A Review of Crannog Excavation

• Ahern, Shaun (MPhil)
  Ring-ditch monuments in Ireland
• Boyle, Sean (MA Archaeological Excavation)       
  The advantages and disadvantages of using gaming software, specifically Sandbox 2, to model the archaeological sites Lisnacaheragh and Lisnamaroe
• Coleman Collin, Thomas (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Impact of Taphonomic Processes on the Preservation and Excavation of Human Remains
• Cronin, Susan (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Our Fractured Past: A Comparison of Trauma in Three Later Medieval Irish Populations
• Dempsey, Carol (MPhil)
  Neolithic stone axe sources, production and exchange in the Lough Gur area
• Gaffney, Gereme (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  The Cicken or the Egg?  Understanding the Complex Development of Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Medieval Ireland
• Keating, Con (MA Archaeological Excavation)     
  The Development of Cork City from the Earliest Times to 1700 AD
• Kennedy, Tacy (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Sex Estimation of Irish Archaeological Skeletons Using Postcranial Metrics
• McCormack, Gillian (MA Archaeological Excavation)        
  John Hunt's excavations of platform ringfort at Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, 1949-51
• McHugh, Zoe (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  An Investigation of Standards for Establishing Age-at-Death of Infants and Children
• Motherway, Ella (MPhil)
  LiDAR and its potential contribution to archaeological survey in Ireland
• Mulcahy, Fiona (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Face Down.  A study on the Practice of Prone Burial in Ireland
• Powell, Emma (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  A Study into the Role of the Community in Archaeological Excavation
• Rossiter, Aisling Teresa (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Archaeology of Pits: Approaches to Identification and Interpretation of Pits on Archaeologial Excavations

• Boland, Sharon (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Conservation and Public Presentation of Excavated Early to High Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in Ireland
• Chambers, Colm (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Excavation Strategies for Archaeological Sites in Intertidal and Estuarine Environments
• Elliott, John (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Excavations of the Town Walls of Limerick
• Hennessy, Deirdre (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Neolithic House in Ireland: Re-interpreting the excavated evidence using Ethnographical Information
• Looney, Peter (MPhil)
  Early Neolithic pottery in Munster; a review
• Lynch, Elaine (MPhil)
  A study of Grooved Ware in Ireland
• Lyons, Heather (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Archaeological Excavation and the Internet
• Mullins, Clare (PhD)
  Bodies of belief: Ideas, materiality and the body as a state of social meaning
• Ó Raghallaigh, Cian (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  The Cultural Landscape Settings of Prehistoric Sites Excavated on the M8 Cashel to Mitchelstown Road Scheme
• O'Connor, Ellen (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Digital Applications in Archaeological Excavation: current and future
• O'Sullivan, Johanna (PhD)
  The Viking Age glass beads of Ireland in their North Atlantic context
• Power, Orla (MPhil)
  Early Medieval corn-drying kilns and their archaeobotanical content
• Roche, Elaine (MA Archaeological Excavation)
  Health and Safety in Archaeological Excavation in Ireland
• Turk, Maria Elena (PhD)
  Society, Class and Dissent.  The Archaeology of the Model Village Movement in Nineteenth Century Ireland

• Barrett, Marie-Therese (MPhil)
  A Study of Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in County Limerick
• Barry, Edel (MPhil)
  The Archaeology of Narrow Gauge Railways in Munster
• Barry, Philippa (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  All in Not Lost: Interpreting the looted remains of adult and child burials from Middle Horizon Peru
• Daly, Niamh (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Embodied Identity:  Bone Chemistry of a Viking Burial
• Feen, Aoife (MPhil)
  Stone circles as funery monuments in Bronze Age Ireland and Britain
• Fuller, Brenda (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Memory Enshrined: A Study of Irish Roadside Memorials
• Gantley, Michael (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  Burning Issues: Cremetion in Early Bronze Age Ireland
• McLeod, Stephen (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  "Off with his Head": A Case for Violence in Early Medieval Ireland
• O'Connor, Laura (MPhil)
  Planning Control and Urban Development in Nineteenth Century Munster
• O'Donoghue, Liam (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  "What science is saying about Ireland": The Dublin Anthropometric Laboratory and physical anthropology in Victorian Ireland
• O'Driscoll, James (MPhil)
  An Archaeo-geophysical Survey of the Garranes Ringfort landscape, Co. Cork
• Smith, Suzanne (MPhil)
  Palynological and Archaeological Evidence for Human Activity during the Iron Age in Ireland

• Hurley, Jane (MPhil)
  A Regional Study of the Social Archaeology fo the Demesne Landscape of North Cork
• McEnery, Kirean (MPhil)
  The Archaeology of Medieval Bridges in Ireland
• Mills, Andrew (MPhil)
  A Critical Examination of the Hilltop Enclosures in the Munster Region

• Niamh Carty (MA Human Osteoarchaeology)
  'The mortuary practices of a 19th century Irish cemetery: St. Annes, Shandon, Cork City
• Michael Connolly (PhD)
  'The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry: A Landscape Perspective'
• Yvonne Graham (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  'Deviant Bodies: An investigation of the burial of adults in cillíní'
• Matthew Lester (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  'The Walking Wounded: Osteobiography and the campained soldier'
• Jason Murphy (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  'A study into the prevalence of upper and lower respiratory tract infection in 19^th century Ireland'
• Darren Regan (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  '"Open the window and let me breathe"; The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis and its affect in 19^th century Cork County and City'
• Catherine Sinnott (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  A bioarchaeological analysis of the aging of foetal and neonatal remains from nineteenth century Ireland
• Aileen Tierney (MA Human Osteoarchaeology) 
  'Death and Commemoration: The Irish Travelling community'