From ringforts to fortified houses : studies on castles and other monuments in honour of David Sweetman / edited by Conleth Manning.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Conleth Manning -- David Sweetman : a personal memoir / Michael Ryan -- David Sweetman's contribution to Irish archaeology / Matthew Stout -- The publications of David Sweetman / Rosanne Meenan -- A brief look at aspects of ringfort morphology and distribution / Eamon Cody -- Sites, social change and warfare in the second half of the first millennium AD : a reappraisal / James Lyttleton and Michael Monk -- Shape-shifting : enclosures in the archaeological landscape / Tracy Collins and Frank Coyne -- The origins of Irish castles : a contribution to the debate / Terry Barry -- Clough Castle reconsidered / T.E. McNeill -- The castle at Castlerahan, County Cavan / Patrick F. O'Donovan and Ciarǹ Parker -- An eroding earthwork castle in Wexford / Claire Breen -- The motte-and-bailey castle at Lissardowlan, County Longford / Kieran O'Conor and Johnny de Meulemeester -- The medieval settlement at Rathgall, County Wicklow / Barry Raftery -- The "Bend of the Finn" : an archaeological landscape in east Donegal / Brian Lacey -- Into the west : a survey and reassessment of the two most westerly archaeological sites in Europe / Victor M. Buckley, Tom Condit and Kieran O'Conor -- Irish castle studies: a view from across the sea / John Kenyon -- Thomas Johnson Westropp and his study of the medieval tower houses of Counties Clare and Limerick / Colm Donnelly -- Medieval imported building stone and utilised stone in Wales and Ireland / Jeremy Knight -- Adare Castle : raising bridges and raising questions / Laurence Dunne -- The castle at Ballingarry, County Tipperary : a fourteenth-century Gaelic castle / Caimin O'Brien -- Hartwell Castle and bawn : a monastic grange? / Gear̤id Conroy -- The fort of the ships / Connie Kelleher -- Maghernacloy Castle and the Hadsors / Conleth Manning -- The almshouses of Fethard, County Tipperary / Barry O'Reilly -- Decorative render in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century / Jean Farrelly -- A Renaissance doorway architrave from the Elizabethan period at Bremore Castle, County Dublin / David Newman Johnson -- The Barryscourt hall and the remains of some other medieval timber buildings / Dave Pollock -- Listowel Castle, Listowel, County Kerry / Grellan D. Rourke -- "A decorative outburst" : the sedilia at Holycross Abbey, County Tipperary / Ann Lynch -- Ships on plaster : evidence for ships in medieval Ireland / Karl Brady and Chris Corlett -- The church and tower house at Dowth, County Meath / Geraldine Stout -- A medieval "shrine chapel" on Church Island, Lough Key, County Roscommon / Heather King -- The origins and technical development of the blast furnace in Ireland c. 1596-c. 1740 / Colin Rynne.