Ringforts or Fairy Homes: Oral Understandings and the Practice of Archaeology in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland |
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Authors: | Máirín Ní Cheallaigh |
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Institution: | (1) School of History and Archives, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Ringforts, the most numerous archaeological monument in the Irish landscape, have a dual character as places of early medieval
habitation and as supernatural points of access to a fairy Otherworld. In my paper, I examine how these understandings interacted
with, challenged and reinforced each other in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and how oral perceptions had a significant
if generally unacknowledged role in determining supposedly scientific archaeological perceptions of these monuments. |
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