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Post-Medievalists of the World Unite!

  • 30-05-2008 7:27pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭


    I don't like all these Meso/Neo heads floatin round, what about the forgotten landless of the recent past (not you Grimey)...or castles...CASTLES!!! They're so cool!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 Sealrock


    NutLog,

    Post-medieval Castles ahem, nonetheless I accept their inherent coolness, something else that is equally cool are the early modern industrial sites, factories, distilleries, mills, civic buildings, canals etc. Sites on the whole ignored.

    One great (re)source is Atlas of the Rural Landscape, Aalen, Whelan et al, absolutely excellent and if you are in anyway interested in late medieval, post medieval archaeology.

    Anyhow, best thing to do is get out there and enjoy, and if you're looking for the creme de la creme of castles, you can't beat Rindoon, North of Athlone, not a DMV but a DMT.

    Enjoy

    Sealrock


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Nutlog!!!


    Ah I know it well, a great site to explore! Glad to hear there's someone else out there who appreciates the undiscovered country that is the 'modern' period in the archaeological record. It's strange (or understandable perhaps) that it's so poorly understood when there's often so much political weight associated with the recent past.
    And I'd personally argue that there were more castles in the post-Medieval period than prior ;)!...but yeah I get yer point heh heh!!!

    Does anybody have any idea where I might find a good guide to medieval/early modern masonry carving/dressing??? I know Sweetman had a small piece in '92s Archaeology Ireland, but I'm looking for something more substantial.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Nutlog!!! wrote: »
    Ah I know it well, a great site to explore! Glad to hear there's someone else out there who appreciates the undiscovered country that is the 'modern' period in the archaeological record. It's strange (or understandable perhaps) that it's so poorly understood when there's often so much political weight associated with the recent past.
    And I'd personally argue that there were more castles in the post-Medieval period than prior ;)!...but yeah I get yer point heh heh!!!

    Does anybody have any idea where I might find a good guide to medieval/early modern masonry carving/dressing??? I know Sweetman had a small piece in '92s Archaeology Ireland, but I'm looking for something more substantial.

    Eh... Tadgh O'Keeffe.... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Nutlog!!!


    I suppose I'll have to!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Nutlog!!!


    Anyone familiar with Dutch Billies outside Dublin, or at least the city centre? (But still in Ireland!)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Nutlog!!!




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Nutlog!!! wrote: »
    Anyone familiar with Dutch Billies outside Dublin, or at least the city centre? (But still in Ireland!)

    There are a few in Cork I believe. I'm contacting a friend of mine there to find out the details.

    I think we may have another contender on St. Francis Street too, to add to the ones we already identified!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Nutlog!!!


    Fantastic! Whereabouts (in Cork and on Francis St)? I don't think any landscape-based study has been carried out on them, not even a distributional analysis...a niche methinks...

    I'm positive that that recently-renevated ornately-gabled building on Talbot Street east is one, got all the tell-tale signs. Not the most attractive restoration work though.

    FYI:
    http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=6813&page=5


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