Lost infancy: Medieval archaeology in Ireland. (Special section).

Medieval archaeology in Ireland has been described twice in the last 30 years as `in its infancy', by Delaney (1977: 46) and by Barry (1987: 1). Neither was strictly correct. Ireland played a full part in the general English interest in medieval castles and churches around 1900, with Champneys, Orpen and Westropp in particular listing and describing them and relating to their historical and European context.

In Ulster the medieval period had occupied a central place in archaeological research and excavation, remarkable within Europe and unique within the British Isles, from 1950 ...

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