File relating to the wooden casket of Knockmore, Kilmihil, Co. Clare, including black and white photographic print of the wooden casket and MS report and assorted MS notes and drawings by Rynne. File also includes some material/notes on site at Clontuskert, Co. Galway.
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Letters between Etienne Rynne and Sean Kierse, regarding objects found in Killaloe by Kierse and who seeks advice from Rynne. Items include a stone fragment (dated to c. 1200) with black and white photographic print included. Also letter from Kierse to Rynne describing a find of twenty-nine '1916 pikes' which were hidden in a cave in Killaloe in 1917 and with other information described by Kierse. (1976)
File includes assorted research notes, copy published documents etc. regarding sites in Co. Clare, (and also Co. Limerick) mostly relating to grave slabs but other sites/objects also. Letters present to/From Rynne and Feakle Development Association, Limerick County Library; Joseph Raftery, Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland; Notes by Rynne on archaeology of Kilfenora; Limerick Museum and re. Askeaton Abbey grave stones. Also press cuttings of local and national press re. news of cultural and heritage issues in Clare and Limerick.
Files relating to archaeological sites and research in and relating to Co. Limerick by Etienne Rynne and others.
File of MS correspondence between Etienne Rynne and Jerry McMahon, regarding investigations around site at Ardagh cemetery, Limerick. includes map and aerial photograph of the cemetery.
Text of article by Etienne Rynne entitled "An Early Celtic Spanish-North Munster Connection" regarding a spearhead find at Castleconnell. Also includes MS notes and research by Rynne on the object, including drawing and illustrations, with TS letters between Rynne and others discussing the find. Includes copy of programme for the Sixth International Congress of Celtic Studies.
Files relating to archaeological sites and research in and relating to Co. Tipperary by Etienne Rynne and others.
File relating to the study of a leather shield found in Littleton Bog, Co. Tipperary. Includes black and white photographic prints of the leather shield; TS correspondence between Etienne Rynne and staff at the The Museum of Leathercraft, London, seeking advice on the shield; other letters between Rynne and George A. Little and John W. Waterer and others regarding such finds and objects. Also manuscript notes and drawings by Rynne made about the leather shield.
File relating to excavations on sites in Co. Waterford.
File relating to excavations and investigation of Kiln and Urn burial near Kilwatermoy, Co. Waterford. Includes letters between Etienne Rynne, Joseph Raftery and Michael Ryan (both of the National Museum of Ireland); Prof. G.F. Mitchell of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland; John Waddell; a report on the object by Etienne Rynne (4 Aug 1967); drawings of the urn; black and white photographic prints, unlabelled, but perhaps of the excavation site; Offprint of article "The Early prehistory of Waterford" by Peter C. Woodman, from the 'Old Waterford Society', "Decies", May 1983.