Ann_Lynch_(archaeologist)

Ann Lynch (archaeologist)

Ann Lynch (archaeologist)

Irish archaeologist


Ann Lynch is an Irish archaeologist specialising in prehistory. She is a former Chief Archaeologist with the National Monuments Service of Ireland.[1]

Lynch studied at University College Cork. She has led excavations on a number of major national monuments, including Poulnabrone dolmen (1986 & 1988),[2] Newgrange (1980s),[3] Skellig Michael (from the mid-1980s),[4] Dublin Castle (1985),[1][5][6] and Moor Abbey, County Tipperary (2019).[7]

Selected publications

Books

  • "Dublin Castle: From Fortress to Palace Volume 2". Wordwell, 2023. ISBN 978-1-4468-8071-5
  • "Poulnabrone: An Early Neolithic Portal Tomb in Ireland". Stationery Office, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4064-2817-9
  • "Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford". Stationery Office, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4064-2532-1

Journals

  • "Reviewing the state of archaeology in Ireland". The National Monuments Service, volume 22, nr 2, 2008. pp. 10–12[8]

Online lectures


References

  1. O'Kelly (1989), p. 94
  2. Lynch, Ann. "Newgrange Revisited: New Insights from Excavations at the Back of the Mound in 1984–8". Journal of Irish Archaeology, volume 23, 2014. pp. 13–82. JSTOR jirisarch.23.13
  3. Lynch, Ann; Manning, Conleth; Wiggins, Ken. "Dublin Castle: From Fortress to Palace: Volume 2 - The Viking-age Archaeology". Wordwell Books, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4468-8096-8
  4. Manning, Conleth. "Archaeology in Ireland’s journals, 2019". Archaeology Ireland, volume 34, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 34–36. JSTOR 26915540
  5. "Lynch, A. (2008)". The National Monuments Service. Retrieved 6 October 2023

Sources

  • O'Kelly, Michael J. "Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory". Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0521334891

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