The built heritage of Ireland takes many forms and spans thousands of years. Built heritage is one of the most visible features in the Irish countryside, with ringforts, castles, churches and landed gentry houses found in all areas of the island. Built heritage sites in Ireland come under the remit of several national government organisations such as OPW, the Heritage Council and local county councils. All heritage buildings and sites in Ireland are protected by the National Monuments Act (1930) and the Ancient Monuments Protection Act (1882). Mesolithic Built Heritage Figure 1 Mount Sandel, Co. Derry The oldest known archaeological site in Ireland is Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine, Co. Derry. Carbon dating has placed the age of the site to be 7,000 B.C. However, while Mount Sandel is the oldest known site of human settlement in Ireland it does not have any remains of buildings, merely indications of where structures had once stood such as post holes left in the ground. Carbon dating of the Mount Sandel site puts it in the Mesolithic era in Ireland, which was a time of hunter gatherer peoples who moved to follow the resources needed to stay alive. This movement of people resulted in their being no major settlements or towns at this time. Neolithic Built Heritage Figure 2 Newgrange, Co. Meath By the Neolithic period in Ireland we begin to see the building of stone structures. Examples of these can be found at the Ceide Fields in Co. Mayo. and Newgrange in Co. Meath. The Ceide Fields are a series of drystone walls, tombs and habitation buildings which were discovered under a peat bog. The site and its structures have been dated to 3,500 B... ... middle of paper ... ...reland’s heritage. They offer us an insight into what life was like in the period we have covered in this essay. They are physical connections to the past and are hugely relevant to our tourism and heritage industry today. There preservation and restoration can provide for the creation of jobs in the heritage and tourism industries as well as insuring these structures are safe for future generations to see, study and understand Irelands built heritage. Bibliography Aalen, A.A., Whelan, K., and Stout, M. (2011) Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape. Cork: Cork University Press. Craig, M. (1982) The Architecture of Ireland From the earliest times to 1880. Dublin: Lambay Books Edwards, N. (1990) The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. Leask, H.G., (1941) Irish Castles and Castellated Houses. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press Ltd.
In this context, the opening of the Ulster Folk Museum, located in Cultra in County Down, Northern Ireland (and now linked to the Ulster Transport Museum), in 1964, might theoretically be seen as a strategy in the ongoing attempted maintenance of unionist hegemony and social control in Northern Ireland. This might especially be assumed in that the early 1960s were a time when pressure for reform in Northern Ireland was increasing, and when the governing unionist coalition was fracturing, partly under the strains of early deindustrialisation.[8] Such a tourist site might also be seen as a propagandistic effort to appeal for political support (or reduced political opposition) from those with ancestral links to Ulster and its “traditions” in the wider diaspora. There are however manifold reasons for thinking that it may be rather too tempting to exaggerate the political intentions behind the formation of such a museum at such a time. Foucauldian notions of the exertion of knowledge-power over the human body have been rightly criticized (even when applied to more favourable contexts) in that they fail properly to address complicated questions of agency and the issue of in whose interest any given strategy was exerted.
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In this ancient place there were all different kinds of remnants from what looked to be a permanent settlement, which led us to believe that it was formed in the Neolithic period. Scientists also believe from the skull fragments found that the Cro-Magnons were the hominid type that inhabited the area. Some of the fossils found helped to prove that the settlement was immobile because the fossilized plants were apparently in a specific arrangement, showing that they were planted purposefully. Some of the cotton grown in this area was apparently used to make woven cloth. Remnants of corn meal were used to make some of the mortar for their establishments, along with mud and sand. They also made their bricks, which were much larger than today’s, from mud. Some of the teeth from the Cro-Magnons were found to be stained. They were thought to be from the coffee ingested due to the high amounts of caffeine deposits in the bones.
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Also Clonycavan man who laid directly along the county border of Meath and Westmeath, dividing the ancient territories of Brega and Mide. Recent research of Iron age bog Bodies in Ireland clearly isolates forty different locations in which bog Bodies were found in close propinquity to important primarily barony boundaries (Kelly, 2006). Nevertheless the Boundary theory is restricted and bias...
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In 1928 at the unbelievably young age of 23 years old Evans after having studied geography in Aberystwyth under the tutorship of H. J Fleure he was appointed the first lecturer in geography at the Queens University Belfast (QUB). It is from here that Evans laid the foundations for his studies in the Irish landscape and its people. Evans started his research of the Irish landscape with a hands on approach as he set out immediately at fieldwork and excavation. In order for Evans to gain a better understanding and clearer picture of the prehistoric Ireland a topic which interested him greatly because he believed we needed to understand this before we could evaluate the Ireland of that time. Fieldwork was to become one of Evans primary sources (Hamlin, A, 1989).
...nguage and art to interpret a better of understanding of Ireland’s symbols. The fourth section of the essay focused on the ethnicity/racial, weather, terrain, and military elements of the country. The last section gave insight to a few of the culture’s contributions to the world.
To undertake a full thematic investigation of this period would be very much beyond the scope of this paper. Thus, the essay will embark on a high level chronological interpretation of some of the defining events and protagonists, which influenced the early modernization of Ireland during the period 1534-1750. The main focus of the paper will concentrating on the impact and supervision of the Tudor dynasty. Firstly, the essay will endeavour to gain an understanding as to what contemporary historians accept as being the concept of modernization during this time period. The paper will then continue by examine the incumbent societal and political structure of Ireland prior to the Tudor conquests. This will have the impact of highlight the modernising effects produced by the subsequent attempts by the Tudors to consolidate and centralise power in the hands of the State. Once more, due to the vast nature of the time period, not every modernizing effect can be examined. Therefore, the paper will concentrate on the modernization of the political landscape, land ownership and the impact this had on the geographic construct of the island.
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