The Irish hillfort

dc.contributor.authorO'Driscoll, James
dc.contributor.authorHawkes, Alan
dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, William
dc.contributor.editorLock, Gary
dc.contributor.editorRalston, Ian
dc.contributor.funderArts and Humanities Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-24T16:55:03Z
dc.date.available2021-11-24T16:55:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.date.updated2021-11-24T16:33:06Z
dc.description.abstractHillforts represent the largest and arguably most impressive archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape. While the study of hillforts progressed rapidly in Britain during the twentieth century, it was not until the work of Barry Raftery in the late 1960s and 70s that these great enclosures became the focus of sustained research in Ireland. Raftery's excavations at Rathgall in Co. Wicklow became the cornerstone of Irish hillfort studies, and began to reveal a different history of design and use from that recorded in Britain. Whereas hillforts in Britain and the Continent are more generally associated with Iron Age societies, their Irish counterparts have close connections with warrior societies of the later Bronze Age. As in Britain, recent research has highlighted the phenomenon of Neolithic hillforts in Ireland, and the possibility that some sites of the early medieval period should be considered in this way. This chapter discusses the developing narrative of hillfort studies in Ireland, and considers how the Irish examples compare with their British counterparts as recorded in the new Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland..en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Driscoll, J., Hawkes, A. and O'Brien, W. (2019) 'The Irish hillfort', in Lock, G. and Ralston, I. (eds.) Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent - Papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 77-96. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvnb7r0b.12en
dc.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctvnb7r0b.12en
dc.identifier.endpage96en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-78969-226-6
dc.identifier.startpage77en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12265
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherArchaeopressen
dc.relation.ispartofHillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent
dc.relation.ispartofAtlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, Edinburgh, 23-25 June 2017en
dc.rights© 2019, the Authors and Archaeopress.en
dc.subjectPrehistoryen
dc.subjectArchaeologyen
dc.subjectBronze Ageen
dc.subjectHillfortsen
dc.titleThe Irish hillforten
dc.typeBook chapteren
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