Everyday Life in Medieval Ireland: Raths and Round Houses

Publish date: 2022-11-18

Everyday Life in Medieval Ireland: Raths and Round Houses

Lecture by Aidan O’Sullivan

Given as part of the 2020 Cambridge Science Festival

Professor Aidan O’Sullivan from the Centre of Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, University College Dublin, talks about everyday life in medieval Ireland and offers insights into the round house the Experimental Archaeology team built.

“Early Medieval House Rebuild”, at UCD’s Centre for Experimental Archaeology (CEAMC) to replace roundhouse destroyed in arson attack. We will be reconstructing Structure Zeta, dated to https://t.co/0fP1TVwJgn 670-780, from Phase 6A at early medieval rath at Deer Park Farms pic.twitter.com/yEsm4cobr4

— ExperimentArchaeolog (@EArchaeol) June 7, 2020

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Top Image: Ringfort in Rodanstown, Ireland – photo by Kmcnamee / Wikimedia Commons

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