Projects

Key Experience

Urban Excavations

The Tholsel, Kilkenny, sixteenth century town hall  – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2018-19

Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, seventeenth century bastioned fort – Client: Brian Dunlop Architects, 2018

St Mary’s Parish Church, Kilkenny (Medieval Mile Museum), burials, funerary monuments – Client: Kilkenny County Council/Duggan Brothers, 2015-17

St Patrick’s Church, Waterford, post-medieval burials – Client: St Patrick’s Gateway Centre, 2015, 2018

City Wall, Kilkenny Christian Brothers School, James’s Street – Client: MGL Contractors, 2015-16

Town Wall, Omniplex, Clonmel – Client: Omniplex, Clonmel, 2016

St Mary’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, nineteenth century tenements – Client: Diocese of Ossory, 2013

St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, paving project, medieval burials, structures – Client: St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, 2013

Talbot’s Tower (Kilkenny City Wall), medieval town ditch, rampart – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2008-12

City Wall, Kilkenny (Abbey Street) – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2007

Highhays, Kilkenny, fourteenth century pottery production centre – Client: MacDonagh Junction Ltd., 2006

20-21 High Street, Kilkenny, Tudor house and gardens – Client: Gittens Murray Architects, 2007-8

St Lachtain’s Church, Freshford, Co Kilkenny, medieval burials – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2010

Deanery Orchard, St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, early medieval church settlement – Client: St Canice’s Cathedral, 2006

63 High Street/Kieran Street, Kilkenny, medieval reclamation – Client: Gittens Murray Architects, 2003

New Ross, Priory Lane, medieval reclamation – Client: Declan Keogh, 2003

 

Rural Excavations

Churchtown, Co. Kildare, drying kiln– Client: Kildare County Council, 2018

 Tubrid towerhouse, Co Kilkenny  – Client: John Campion, 2018

 Burrow, Co. Wexford, penal church and graveyard – Client: Sterrin O Shea Architects, 2006-7

 Annakisha, Co. Cork, ringfort – Client: Michael Monagle, 2013

 

 

Garden Archaeology

Wonderful Barn, Co. Kildare, Designed Landscape Project – Client: Kildare County Council Parks Department, 2015-17

63 Merrion Square, Dublin, garden recreation project – Client: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 2009-10

Rothe House, Kilkenny, Tudor garden recreation Project – Client: Rothe House Trust Ltd., 2006-9

 

Heritage Audits

River Suir, Tipperary Heritage Audits (Built Heritage) – Client: Tipperary County Council, 2015-18

River Suir, Co. Waterford (Built Heritage) – Client: Waterford County Council, 2014

Historic Graveyards of Co. Waterford – Client: Waterford County Council Heritage Office, 2015

River Nore, Kilkenny Heritage Audits (Built Heritage) – Client: Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office, 2010-12

Kilkenny Archaeological Project, collation and mapping excavations in city – Client: Heritage Council, INSTAR, 2008-11

St Mary’s Parish Church, Kilkenny, funerary monuments audit – Client: Heritage Council

Historic Graveyards of Co. Kilkenny – Client: Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office, 2005

 

 

Infrastructure

Windfarms

Upperchurch Windfarm, Co Tipperary, Cultural Heritage Chapter, EIS – Client: Ecopower Ltd., 2018

Altcor Windfarm, Co Donegal, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: ART Generation Ltd, 2018-19

Lisdowney Windfarm, Co Kilkenny 20kv line – Client: Jennings O’Donovan and Partners Ltd., 2014

Foylature Windfarm, Co Kilkenny, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: ART Generation Ltd, 2015

Boolabrien Windfarm, Co Waterford, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: Ecopower Ltd, 2010, 2015

Ballymartin Windfarm, Co Kilkenny, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: ART Generation Ltd, 2003-4

Acres Windfarm, Co Donegal, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: ART Generation Ltd, 2003-4

Kilcar Windfarm, Co Donegal, Cultural Heritage Chapter EIS – Client: ART Generation Ltd, 2003

 

Roads

N9/N10 Archaeological Resolution Contract – Client: Kilkenny County Council/Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 2008-9

N9/N10 Prumplestown – Mullamast, Stage i, Archaeological Testing Contract – Client: Kildare County Council/CRDS Ltd, 2006-7

N7 Monasterevin Bypass (project manager) – Client: Valerie J. Keeley Ltd., 2002

M1 Drogheda Bypass (excavation director, Neolithic settlements) – Client: Valerie J. Keeley Ltd., 2000

M1 Dunleer-Dundalk Motorway (excavation director, early medieval settlements) – Client: Valerie J. Keeley Ltd., 1999-2000

 

Water

Thurles water rehabilitation pipeline – Client: David Walsh Ltd, 2012

Kildangan-Monasterevin water rehabilitation pipeline – Client: David Walsh Ltd, 2010

 

Flood-Relief

King’s River, Callan Flood Relief – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2019

Passage East, Co Waterford Flood Relief– Client: Niall Barry, 2016

Waterford City Flood Relief – Client: Niall Barry, 2012

Waterford City Flood Relief – Client: BAM, 2009

 

Public Realm

Cashel, Co Tipperary, Town Park Public Realm Archaeological Assessment- Client: Paul Hogarth Company, 2019

 Kilcullen Public Realm Archaeological Assessment- Client: Paul Hogarth Company, 2019

 Rathangan Public Realm Archaeological Assessment- Client: Paul Hogarth Company, 2019

 Athy Public Realm Archaeological Assessment – Client: Paul Hogarth Company, 2018

 

Historic Building Analysis

St Mary’s Church, Kilkenny, building study – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2015-17

Sullivan’s Brewery, John Street, Kilkenny, priory precinct turret – Client: Brian Dunlop Architects, 2017

Kilkea Castle, Co Kildare, thirteenth century motte, masonry castle – Client: DHB Architects, Waterford, 2014

Fethard Town Hall, Co Tipperary, seventeenth century alms house – Client: Kenneth Hennessy Architects, 2012-13, 2016

Inistioge Courthouse Castle – Client: Martin Larkin, 2014 

2-3 Watergate, Kilkenny, Tudor timber-framed house – Client: Denis Brennan Engineer, 2007-8

 

Conservation Plans

Callan, Kilkenny, Moat Field Conservation Plan – Client: Camphill, Kilkenny, 2017-18

 Tea Lane, Celbridge, church and graveyard, Conservation Management Plan – Client: Tea Lane committee, 2014-15

St Nicholas Church, Clonmel, Conservation Management Plan – Client: Tipperary County Council, 2009

Derrynahinch medieval church and graveyard, Co Kilkenny Conservation Management Plan – Client: Kilkenny County Council, Heritage Office, 2008

 Gaganstown, Kildare medieval church and graveyard Conservation Management Plan – Client: Kildare County Council, Heritage Office, 2006

 Passlands, Kildare medieval church and graveyard Conservation Management Plan – Client: Kildare County Council, Heritage Office, 2006

 

Churchclara, early medieval church Conservation Management Plan – Client: Kilkenny County Council, Heritage Office, 2005

 

 Archaeological Research Projects

Black Pig’s Dyke (linear earthworks), Regional Project (P.I.) – Client: Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Cavan County Councils, 2014-19

Dungarvan Valley Caves Project (Palaeolithic archaeology) (co-P.I.)  – Royal Irish Academy Committee for Archaeology, 2005-19 (ongoing)

Clones Castle, Co Monaghan, plantation castle (P.I.) – Client: Monaghan County Council, 2016-18

Lullymore monastic site, Co Kildare, geophysical survey (P.I.) – Client: Lullymore Heritage Park, 2015-16

Late Iron Age and Roman Ireland Project (Discovery Programme), researcher, Discovery Programme, 2013-16

St Canice’s Cathedral Close Archaeological Project (P.I.) – Client: Heritage Council, 2012-13

Kilkenny Castle Geophysical Survey (P.I.) – Client: Heritage Council, 2010

Danesfort Ringwork Castle, Co Kilkenny (P.I.) – Client: Pat Nolan, Kilkenny, 2008

Ballyorley, Co Wexford, sixteenth century law school (P.I.) – Client: Ballyorley Law School Committee, 2008-9

Environmental factors in human evolution and dispersals in the Upper Pleistocene of the western Mediterranean (field archaeologist), NERC (EFCHED), 2003-2005

 Biogeography of human colonisation and extinction in the Late Pleistocene of southern Iberia (field archaeologist). AHRB, Leverhulme, British Council, 2001-4

 The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic of Northern Morocco and contacts with southern Europe (field archaeologist). Oxford University, 2000-3

 

Conservation Built Heritage

Shee family (seventeenth century) funerary monuments restoration – Client: Kilkenny County Council, 2013-14

 

Community Archaeology

Loughmoe Castle, Co Tipperary (Creative Ireland) – Client: Tipperary County Council, 2019

Kilkenny Archaeological Project online, heritagemaps.ie, 2018-19

Medieval Kilkenny 3D – Client: Heritage Council, 2016-18

‘Pop Up’ Archaeology Museum, Kilkenny – Client: Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office, 2014.

Editor, Kilkenny Archaeological Society annual journal, the Old Kilkenny Review, 2005-8, 2015-19 (ongoing)

Regular contributor to local radio and newspapers

Regular tour guide historic sites Kilkenny and lecturer to local groups and schools

 

Archaeological Survey Ireland

Recorded Monuments and Places Kilkenny City update – Client: Archaeological Survey of Ireland, 2019 (ongoing)

 

Heritage Interpretation

Medieval Mile Museum (3 lives lived, 3 lives lost), permanent exhibition excavated skeletal remains – Client: Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny, 2019

Medieval Mile Museum (Unearthed), permanent exhibition excavated artefacts – Client: Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny, 2018

Kilkenny City Walls (Talbot’s Tower, James’s Gate) interpretation panels – Client: Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office, 2017-18

St Canice’s Cathedral interpretation strategy – Client: Select Vestry St Canice’s Cathedral, 2015

Lullymore, Co Kildare, monastic site, interpretation panels – Client: Lullymore heritage park, 2015

Grannagh Castle, Co Kilkenny, interpretation panels – Client: Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office, 2014

Hill of Tara interpretation panels – Client: Office of Public Works (National Monuments), 2011-12

Durrow Abbey, Co. Laois interpretation panels – Client: Office of Public Works (National Monuments), 2011-12

Bective Abbey, Co. Meath interpretation panels – Client: Office of Public Works (National Monuments), 2011-12

Caringford Castle, Co. Louth interpretation panels – Client: Office of Public Works (National Monuments), 2011-12

Jigginstown House, Co. Kildare interpretation panels – Client: Office of Public Works (National Monuments), 2011-12

Rothe House Museum, display and interpretation – Client: Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 2008-9

 

Strategic Heritage Advice

Member of the National Monuments Expert Advisory Committee to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht – 2013-15

Member, St Mary’s Conservation Plan Steering Group, 2010-11

Member, Kilkenny City Walls Conservation Plan Steering Group, Kilkenny County Council, 2008-12

Member, Rothe House Garden Committee, 2006-10

Forest Policy Heritage Review – Client: Heritage Council

 

Artistic Collaborations

Hidden Monuments, Black Pig’s Dyke  – Creative Ireland commission with Siobhán McDonald (Market House gallery, Monaghan, 2019)

Crystalline, Black Pig’s Dyke  – Creative Ireland commission with Siobhán McDonald (Limerick City Gallery, 2018)

Artistic reconstructions of Lullymore monastic site, medieval Kilkenny City Walls, St Canice’s Cathedral, Castlecomer Fort, with Philip Armstrong (Paint the Past), 2015-19.

 

 

Click the links below to learn more or why not visit one of our ongoing projects, the Kilkenny Archaeological Project, which has its own website at KKAP.ie.