Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end.  If you think that this post is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc.**] Last week archaeologist Dr Charles Mount published a blog post about the relatively rare phenomenon of houses in the Irish Copper Age . As is the way of such things, it was rapidly seized upon by a number of archaeologists and related groups on Facebook and quickly ‘shared’ and ‘re-shared’. On my own Facebook page I shared it with the comment that it was a ‘brief, but elegant, summary of Copper Age houses’.  While I don’t know Dr Mount personally we are ‘Facebook Friends’ and he added a comment asking that if I knew of any more sites he had missed, to let him know. The simple answer was: No, I haven’t a notion about any other houses dating form that period. Rather than leave it there, I started thinking and doing a little research … and I still have no extra houses to add to...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end.  If you think this post is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc.**] The other day I was reading a blog post on the Historic Graves site by Shane Lehane about the mysterious and miraculous movement of the graveyard at Loughane, Co. Cork . The local legend holds that the resident corpses so objected to the body of a murderous priest-hunter being laid to rest among them that they uprooted themselves (and took their gravestones with them) to an adjacent location at Matehy (pronounced maw-te-ha , but that’s another story). While it is an interesting story, I remain to be convinced about all the facts of the case. Top: Interior of the west wall of Kildemock Church. Bottom: Exterior of  the west wall of Kildemock Church. Around the same time I restarted a personal project, in hibernation over the summer, to share selections of my sli...