Grant Reports

Charlemont Grants awarded 2024

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Charlemont Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2025.

Royal Irish Academy

The Rock of Lough Key

Excavations continued on the Rock of Lough Key for a third season, following successful campaigns in 2019 and 2022.

Thomas Finan

Castlepook Caves Project

This report summarises the results of two weeks of excavation and survey work at Kilcolman Cave from April 1-15, 2023, and three days of geophysics…

Dr Richard Jennings

Excavation of two enclosure/hut sites in Ballyganner North, Co. Clare (Phase 2)

The excavation of two enclosure/hut sites CL009-242—- and CL009-292—- in the townland of Ballyganner North, Co. Clare (Phase 2) was undertaken from 8 May to…

Elaine Lynch

Archaeological remote sensing investigations at Galey Castle and its surrounding area, Co. Roscommon

This project sought to explore this castle ruin, and its immediate environs, and has answered questions relating to its immediate landscape context and morphology, and…

Daniel Curley

Moynagh Lough Project

This report provides details of the components of the Moynagh Lough Project funded by an Archaeology Legacy Projects grant from the Royal Irish Academy in…

Michael Potterton

Lisleagh I

The Lisleagh I excavations produced a number of individual significant pieces of evidence relevant to the study of the early medieval period as a whole…

Michael Monk

Nowlan Digitisation Grants Awarded 2024

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Nowlan Digisation Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2025.

Royal Irish Academy

Funerary rites and social complexity in Neolithic Ireland: (Re)assessing the Fourknocks human bone assemblage

This project seeks to undertake a full osteological analysis of the remains from Fourknocks following modern methods and comprehensive statistical analysis.

Dr Jonny Geber

Sexuality and Social Control: Presbyterians in Ireland and North America, 1717-1830

Research activities in connection with a new publication entitled Sex

Leanne Calvert

Archaeological Archives Research Grants 2024

Archaeological Archives Research Grants awarded Winter 2023 (for 2024) Osteological and bioarchaeological analysis of the Fourknocks I and II Neolithic human bone assemblage –Phase 2…

Jessica Smyth

Archaeology Research Grants Awarded 2023

Please click download to view a list of the most recent Archaeology Research Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2024.

Royal Irish Academy