ABSTRACT

`This eagerly awaited book is an outstanding and right up-to-date summary of every excavation and investigation undertaken in Ireland into the earthworks, castles, ecclesiastical buildings and towns of the period from the arrival of the Anglo-Normans to the mid-sixteenth century...a most welcome synthesis and will be valued by the layperson, student and professional archaeologist, historical geographer and historian alike.' Archaeology Ireland

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

Pre-Norman settlement c.1000–1169

chapter 3|35 pages

Anglo-Norman military fortifications

chapter 4|44 pages

Anglo-Norman rural settlement

chapter 5|23 pages

The growth of medieval towns

chapter 6|29 pages

The archaeology of the medieval church

chapter 7|31 pages

The later middle ages: growth or decline?

chapter 8|5 pages

Future horizons