The Burren and the Aran Islands: Exploring the Archaeology.
Author: JONES, Carleton.
Cork: Collins Press, 2004. 268 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
An excellent resource on the archaeology of the Burren and Aran Islands.
Key topics are:
THE BURREN
• The First People on the Burren
• The First Farmers on the Burren
• From Neolithic to Bronze Age
• Gold, Power and War
• Celts?
• The Coming of Christianity
• Cahercommaun and the Early Medieval Chiefdoms of the Burren
• Medieval Churches and Society on the Burren
• Relics and Pilgrimage on the Burren
• The Tower Houses of the Burren
• Nineteenth-Century Military Fortifications on the Burren
THE ARAN ISLANDS
• The Colonisation and Early Settlement of the Aran Islands
• The Late Bronze Age Chiefdom of Dun Aonghasa
• The Stone Forts of the Aran Islands
• Life Outside the Forts
• Christianity and Pilgrimage on the Aran Islands
• Power Struggles on the Aran Islands
• Archaeology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
ISBN: 1903464617
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