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2013 Tuesday 8pm

Jan 29 ’s Venue: Hall,

Feb 12 Medieval Limerick Today: The Built Heritage Venue: , Dooradoyle

Feb 26 The Archaeology of Mills and Milling in from an early medieval period to c. 1900 Venue: County Hall, Dooradoyle

Limerick’s Mar 12 : a Technological University on the Banks of the Shannon Built Venue: County Hall, Dooradoyle Mar 26 Limerick 2030 Venue: County Hall, Dooradoyle

Heritage | Admission Free |

6th Series of Exploratory Lectures FOLDFo 1

This series is organised and funded by

For further information contact: Limerick County Council County Hall, Arts

Dooradoyle, Archaeology Limerick Architecture

Tel: 061 496498 / 496300 Development

Fold 3 Fold 2 Limerick’s 1. Limerick’s Ringforts 2. Medieval Limerick Today: The Built Heritage Built Ringforts are the remains of Early The antiquity of Limerick City is well Heritage Medieval farmsteads in (c.600– established but subsequent layers of 900AD). Their huge number, over 47,000, building and development have overlain is testimony to an island-wide agricultural its earliest townscapes. What do we know economy that was dominated by the about the buildings from the Viking City? rearing of cattle. County Limerick has What did the medieval City look like at the a special place in studies. Not height of its prosperity? Using information only is it one of the most densely settled from archaeological excavations, 6th in the series of regions in Ireland, having over three and historical records, antiquarian sketches Exploratory Lectures a half thousand ringforts, it was also the and paintings Brian Hodkinson will SVJH[PVUVM[OLZPNUPÄJHU[HUKTPZSLHKPUN reassemble the City’s streetscapes and early excavations at Cush in 1934, and ^PSSWVPU[V\[^OLYL^LJHUÄUKYLTUHU[Z Introduction the ground breaking archaeological of the built heritage of Medieval Limerick survey of the of Small County today. The built landscape of Limerick is the in 1942. This lecture will examine the result of what our ancestors created and ZPNUPÄJHUJLVMYPUNMVY[ZPU[OLJV\U[` Lecturer Brian Hodkinson is Curator of Limerick deemed important. What we design, build and why it is so essential to ensure their City Museum. He has excavated in and preserve today will become Limerick preservation. , Britain and Ireland focussing PU[OLM\[\YL;OLI\PS[OLYP[HNLPZHYLÅLJ- largely on the Viking and medieval period. tion of our society, its values, its hierar- Lecturer Dr Matthew Stout lectures on the Latterly he has turned his attention to chies, its fashions and its trends history of the Irish landscape, Early Limerick City. With his former colleague Medieval Ireland, Medieval archaeology Larry Walsh he pioneered the digitisation This series of lectures will look at a variety and international historiography at St. of the museum collection allowing of architecture through the ages, from Patrick’s College, , a college of universal access through the web. He early medieval to contemporary and fu- Dublin City University. He is co-general has also worked to make archives and ture design of Limerick, city and county. editor of the Irish landscapes series historical records accessible indexing published by University Press and several manuscript collections. His many The lectures are organised and funded by deputy president of the Group for the publications on Limerick City and the Limerick County Council and are free. Study of Irish Historic Settlement. He has wider area have recently been published published extensively on Early Medieval as a collection of essays entitled Aspects All are welcome settlement, including the seminal of medieval North Munster by the publication The Irish Ringfort. Archaeological and Historical Society. Date January 29th |8pm Date February 12th | 8pm Venue County Hall, Dooradoyle Venue County Hall, Dooradoyle Admission Free Admission Free

3. The Archaeology of Mills and 4. University of Limerick: a 5. Limerick 2030 Milling in County Limerick from the Technological University on the early medieval period to c. 1900 Banks of the Shannon

This talk examines the development of The University of Limerick campus at ‘Limerick 2030’ is a ‘once in a generation water-powered milling in County Limerick, Plassey, established 40 years ago in strategy’ to guide the economic, social from the early medieval period to the 1972, is a remarkable creation. With its and physical renaissance of the city and end of the 19th century. Beginning with a roots in English planning and American wider county/city region. It will guide the consideration of early and later medieval JHTW\ZHYJOP[LJ[\YLP[THRLZHZPNUPÄJHU[ activities of the new Limerick Local Au- mill sites at Knocknagranshy and Ballyine, contribution to contemporary Irish archi- thority and its partners in delivering this the archaeological evidence for the tecture. In this talk Judith Hill will trace renaissance. The strategy is by design a evolution of milling plant, architecture and [OLPUÅ\LUJLZKLZJYPILP[ZKL]LSVWTLU[ ÅL_PISLK`UHTPJMYHTL^VYRJHWHISLVM the water supply systems associated with and assess its impact. responding to changing circumstances the traditional water-mills of the county HUKWYV]PKPUNWLYOHWZMVY[OLÄYZ[[PTLH will be re-evaluated in light of more recent Lecturer Judith Hill is an architect, historic build- holistic perspective on Limerick’s future. studies. ing consultant, architectural historian and Gerry Hughes – the principal author of the writer whose books include Lady Gregory: report will outline the main recommenda- Lecturer Dr Colin Rynne is a Senior Lecturer at An Irish Life (2005), In Search of : A [PVUZMVY3PTLYPJRHZH^OVSL^P[OZWLJPÄJ the Department of Archaeology UCC. Life of Connor O’Brien (2009), Irish Public reference to the city centre. He has published widely on industrial Sculpture (1998) as well as An Introduc- archaeology, on water power in medieval tion to the Architectural Heritage of Lecturer Gerry Hughes is a Senior Director in Ireland and Europe and on the post- County Limerick written for the GVA’s Planning, Development and Regen- medieval and industrial archaeology Department of the Environment in 2011. eration Division. He is responsible for the of Ireland. His book titles include The She is possibly best known in this region ÄYT»ZLJVUVTPJKL]LSVWTLU[HUK\YIHU archaeology of Cork city and harbour for her book The Building of Limerick regeneration/spatial planning capability. (1993), At the sign of the cow: the Cork (1991). She is on the committee of the His specialist area of expertise includes Butter Market 1769-1924 (1998); The Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian economic development, city planning, industrial archaeology of Cork city and Society. urban regeneration and development con- its environs (1999), A life of usefulness: sultancy and funding. He has led similar Abraham Beale and the Monard Ironworks Date March 12th | 8pm exercises for Preston, , Blackpool, (2001) and Industrial Ireland 1750-1930: 4HUJOLZ[LY:OLɉLSK*YV`KVU3P]LYWVVS archaeology (2006). He is currently Venue County Hall, Dooradoyle and . He has led over 100 major working on an interdisciplinary research multidisciplinary economic and urban re- project called ‘The Colonial Landscapes Admission Free generation projects over the last 25 years. of Richard Boyle, Ist Earl of Cork, 1602-1643. Date March 26th | 8pm

Date February 26th | 8pm Venue County Hall, Dooradoyle

Venue County Hall, Dooradoyle Admission Free

Admission Free