Tag: IAC Excavation
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World Wetlands Day 2024
‘Wetlands and Human Wellbeing’ is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2024, with the focus on how interconnected wetlands and human life are, and how all aspects of human wellbeing are tied to the health of the world’s wetlands. IAC Archaeology are currently contracted by the National Monuments Service to carry out archaeological monitoring of Bord…
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Clay pipe production at Francis Street
Fragments of clay tobacco pipes are commonly found during archaeological investigations; the plain, broken stems are essentially the cigarette butts of the 18th and 19th centuries! IAC’s excavations at 134–143 Francis Street in Dublin 8 revealed more than the expected scattering of these remains. A large assemblage of 910 fragmentary pipes and associated material was…
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CIfA Registered Organisation Status
IAC are delighted to announce that both our Irish and UK businesses have attained ‘Registered Organisation‘ status with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. This follows a detailed assessment by CIfA of all aspects of our company procedures and policies within our Irish and UK operations; including our quality standards, methods of work, health and safety…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
