Archaeology Ireland magazine, published every quarter since 1987, provides a comprehensive range of articles, news and features. Content covers numerous areas in archaeology including science, art, architecture, history, geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, religion and more. The magazine offers readers a broad range of well-researched, lavishly illustrated articles on a range of topics at an accessible level. Archaeology Ireland is a key reference guide for students and professionals working in the field and conducting analysis on their findings.

All issues of Archaeology Ireland, from the first one in 1987 to the latest quarterly edition, are now available as digital editions with a fully searchable digital archive, creating an invaluable resource of over 120 issues of well-researched and illustrated articles, as well as over 80 Heritage Guide supplements that study a range of Irish archaeological sites in fine-combed detail.

Latest Issue

THE COLD HILLS OF FOURKNOCKS

Martin Ryan suggests a theory about the derivation of the name of the location of the megalithic tombs

KNOW YOUR MONUMENTS: LATER MEDIEVAL MONASTERIES

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey review monasteries constructed from the twelfth to the early sixteenth century

A CASE FOR BATTLEFIELD ARCHAEOLOGY

Kylie Crowder looks at the origins and value of battlefield archaeology and argues for its further application in Ireland

TOWERING ABOVE MEMORIALS THAT STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD

Isabel Bennett looks at nineteenth-century replica round towers as memorials

Heritage Guide 93. Tullaghoge, Co. Tyrone. The inauguration place of the Ó Néill rulers of Tír Eoghain