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What’s cooking? Military Kitchen at Tully Park
Our inhouse archaeobotanist, Roisín Ó Droma, has published an article in the Journal of Irish Archaeology (Volume XXXII, 2023), which is fresh off the press this week. It provides an insight into food and fuel from a Napoleonic-Era Military Kitchen in Ireland dating from the 1790s. Excavations were carried out by IAC in 2022 (Duffy […]

Tags: Archaeobotany, archaeology, Cherrywood, Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, IAC Excavation, Journal of Irish Archaeology, Military Camp, Military Kitchen, Public dissemination, Publication, Tully Park
17 November 2023
Open Day at N83 Claregalway Excavation
We were delighted to engage with members of the public on our recent Open Day on Friday 6th October at our ongoing excavation site in Claregalway, Co. Galway. Excavations are being carried out in advance of the N83 Claregalway Traffic Calming Scheme (attenuation pond) and are fully funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Galway County […]

Tags: archaeology, Claregalway, IAC Excavation, N83, Open day, Outreach, Palaeoenvironmental, Public dissemination, public engagement, Transport Infrastructure Ireland
17 October 2023
Archaeobotanical Analysis reflecting Medieval diet
On UN World Food Day 2023 we are sharing some interesting results from inhouse archaeobotanical analyses carried out on one of our urban projects. Food is a necessary component of life, and plant macrofossil analysis can help us to identify the foods of the past and learn about what our ancestors ate. Plant macrofossil analysis […]

Tags: Archaeobotany, archaeology, IAC Excavation, medieval diet, Medieval Dublin, Palaeoenvironmental, plant remains, post-excavation analysis, St Marys Abbey
16 October 2023
Job Opportunity: Senior Archaeological & Cultural Heritage Consultant
Due to ongoing and continued business growth, we are currently looking for an experienced archaeologist to join our friendly team in our Kilcoole office in County Wicklow. TITLE: Senior Archaeological & Cultural Heritage Consultant LOCATION: IAC Head Office, Network Enterprise Centre, Kilcoole, Co Wicklow/ home working (subject to agreement). CONTRACT: Full-time (37.5 hour-week Mon-Fri.)/ potential […]

Tags: archaeology, archaeology jobs, consultancy, job, Job Opportunity
4 September 2023
Book Launch: Ranelagh The Forgotten Cemetery
We had the pleasure of attending the official book launch for ‘Ranelagh: The Forgotten Cemetery’ on Thursday 18th May in Roscommon. The project and resulting publication was introduced by Transport Infrastructure Ireland Project Archaeologist Martin Jones and coauthors Shane Delaney of IAC and Professor Eileen Murphy of Queen’s University Belfast who thanked all members of […]

Tags: Book launch, IAC Excavation, Osteoarchaeology, Publication, Ranelagh, Roscommon
19 May 2023
Appointment: TII Palaeo-environmental Sampling Guidelines Update
IAC Archaeology are delighted to announce that we have been appointed by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to undertake a review and update their Palaeo-environmental Guidelines. These revised guidelines will set the standard for environmental work on TII projects over the coming years. Our highly experienced team is led by Dr Ellen O Carroll who co-authored […]

Tags: archaeology, Environmental analysis, guidelines, Palaeoenvironmental, Transport Infrastructure Ireland
3 April 2023
New Appointment: Environmental Consultant
We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Ellen OCarroll has joined IAC as our Environmental Consultant. As one of the leading environmental archaeologists in the Ireland, Ellen will greatly strengthen our growing post-excavation services team. She will provide strategic advice on the development of our environmental sampling processes and help to develop our in-house offering for […]

13 March 2023
Appointment: IAI Scoping Excercise
IAC are happy to announce that we have been appointed to work on the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI) Scoping exercise on the creation of professional standards and guidance for archaeological practice in Ireland. Our successful bid builds on the significant experience we have in this area, following on from our recent review of […]

1 February 2023
Appointment: Peatland Climate Action Scheme
We are delighted to have been appointed by the National Monuments Service to act as Archaeological Consultant on the Bord na Mona Peatland Climate Action Scheme. This project will see the enhanced decommissioning, rehabilitation and restoration measures, targeting c. 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs. As Irelands leading commercial wetland archaeology practitioners, our team have […]

5 January 2023
New Book: The Forgotten Cemetery
We are very proud of our colleagues Shane Delaney and Muireann Ní Cheallacháin, and all the team who worked on the Ranelagh, Co. Roscommon project to bring it to publication. ‘The Forgotten Cemetery: excavations at Ranelagh, Co. Roscommon’ contains a significant tome of work detailing the results of a year-long excavation carried out by IAC […]

19 December 2022
Heritage Week 2022
For Heritage Week 2022 members of the IAC team organised several in-person events and shared online content regarding some of our recent excavations. We had an overwhelming positive response from the public and fellow archaeologists, and we look forward to contributing to next years events calendar. At Blessington, site director Muireann Ní Cheallacháin, and her […]

27 October 2022
IACs 24th Anniversary
Today IAC are celebrating our 24th Anniversary! Coincidentally this week also marks the appointment to our two thousandth job! Over the years we have been involved in many important and exiting projects, and are privileged to have worked with experienced archaeologists, planners, developers, architects, engineers and construction crews. We thank all our colleagues and clients […]

31 May 2022
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