Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] Knockdoe (1504): the archaeological & historical significance of one of Ireland's great but forgotten battles John Jeremiah Cronin &  Damian Shiels Project Background Galloglass ©  Claíomh &  Niamh O'Rourke 2013 In 2007 the Department of the Environment, Heritage& Local Government launched the Irish Battlefields Project . This ambitious undertaking that sought to look at all the battles fought in the Republic of Ireland between the 8th century and 1798, with a view to determining how many were locatable in today’s landscape. An advisory panel developed a set of criteria to determine ...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the end of the post - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue**] George Carew, Earl of Totnes  via Wikimedia Commons In the last part of this post, I looked at the Irish annals  and posted links to those available online. In this post I wanted to do something pretty similar with the Calendar of State Papers for Ireland. The CSP are ‘calendars’ in the sense that they are chronological lists of documents or manuscripts. They contain a wealth of information from the perspective of the English involvement in Ireland throughout the period from 1509 to 1670. This is from the ascension of Henry VIII, through the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I (House of Tudor), James, ...