More Scottorum:: buildings of worship in Ireland, c.400-950

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dc.contributor.authorÓ Carragáin, Tomás
dc.contributor.editorBarnwell, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-18T12:00:01Z
dc.date.available2026-02-18T12:00:01Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn the period covered in this paper the vast majority or churches in Ireland were of timber or other organic materials. No fabric from any of these buildings survives and, with the exception of a few at unrepresentative minor sites, virtually no evidence for them has been recovered through archaeological excavation. A few congregational mortared stone churches were built before the mid tenth century but, as we shall see, they rarely survive either. This, then, is a paper about a group of buildings that have left very few physical traces. And yet we can discuss their form and character with a fair degree of confidence, more confidence perhaps than in the case of many of their non-extant Anglo-Saxon counterparts. In part, this is because of contemporary textual and art historical sources, but the principal reason is the tenacity of tradition in early Irish architecture: as a result of this it can be inferred that the later (tenth to twelfth century) churches of mortared stone which still survive at many sites provide us with a good indication of what their predecessors looked like.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidÓ Carragáin, Tomás §0000-0001-7227-4287
dc.identifier.authororcidBarnwell, Paul
dc.identifier.citationÓ Carragáin, T 2015, More Scottorum: buildings of worship in Ireland, c.400-950. in P Barnwell (ed.), Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950. Shaun Tyas, pp. 56-67.
dc.identifier.endpage67
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7227-4287/work/206113978
dc.identifier.startpage56
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18542
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherShaun Tyas
dc.relation.ispartofPlaces of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950
dc.rights© 2015, the Author. Published by Shaun Tyas as Ó Carragáin, T. (2015) 'More Scottorum: buildings of worship in Ireland, c. 400-950', in Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950. Shaun Tyas.
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dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectChurches
dc.subjectIreland
dc.subject400-950
dc.subject[HumanEnvironment]
dc.subject500-950
dc.titleMore Scottorum:: buildings of worship in Ireland, c.400-950en
dc.typeBook chapter
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