Archaeology: Useful Web Sources

Find or identify heritage sites and explore heritage data sets anywhere in Ireland.

A team of archaeologists lead by Professor Hugh O’Kelly from University College Cork have made fresh findings at the centre mound of Newgrange in County Meath.

Podcast 1 - The River Laune (Inisfallen) Crozier told by Dr Griffin Murray (UCC)

Supporting research, learning and teaching with free, high quality and dependable resources.

Provides bibliographic references - many with abstracts - covering all aspects of archaeology and the historic environment, and every chronological period, with a geographical focus on Britain and Ireland

The British Archaeological Association (BAA) was founded in 1843 to promote the study of archaeology, art and architecture and the preservation of British antiquities. It encourages original research and publishes new work on the history of architecture, art and antiquities of Roman to post-medieval date.

Database of Irish excavations reports

The principle aim of the Society is "to foster public understanding of the material and literary past, to support research and communicate the results, and to facilitate in the formulation of public policy on the care of our cultural heritage"

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Website of the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs', detailing Ireland’s World Heritage sites and World Heritage Programme.

The Academy Library is an important research centre for the study of Irish history, language, archaeology and the history of Irish science. Home to the Cathach, the sixth-century Latin psalter reputed to have been copied by St Colum Cille (Columba), our repository houses the largest collection of Irish language manuscripts in the world, including Lebor na hUidre (the Book of the Dun Cow), the oldest extant manuscript completely in Irish. We are longterm partners in the Irish Script on Screen project whereby Irish manuscripts are digitised and are freely accessible for research and scholarly purposes. As of November 2015, over 70 of the earliest Academy mss are available on www.isos.dias.ie

part of the National Monuments Service

From the Getty Research Institute

Electronic Tools & Ancient Near East Archives. A multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East.

Cultural collections from all over Europe.

Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives

Los Angeles County Museum of Art provides access to catalogues, brochures and books about German Expressionism, modern art, Southeast Asian art, and more.

Smarthistory is a collection of videos and essays. a collaboration of more than 200 art historians, archaeologists, curators and other specialists - it covers art that ranges from the paleolithic to the present.

A virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from the 8th to 19th centuries.

The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 11,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2010.