Early Neolithic dates from the northwest and the enigma of the Magheraboy causeway enclosure
Friday, 27th September 2024, 8pm
Lecturer Mr Sam Moore
Location: Sligo Educational Centre, ATU, Ballinode, F91 WFW9
The causewayed enclosure at Magheraboy was discovered during excavations in advance of roadworks on the new bypass around Sligo Town between 2001 and 2005. The monument, invisible before excavation, occupied about five acres on the eastern side of the ridge of Magheraboy, the fourth highest point on the Coolera Peninsula. Causewayed enclosures are highly symbolic monuments, which appear to have been constructed for special communal rituals.
Lecturer
Sam Moore is an archaeologist currently based the west of Ireland, Ireland. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North London in Classical Civilizations, and also studied folk art at Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela. After completing a diploma and post graduate qualifying exam in archaeology at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway he received a Government of Ireland Scholarship Award for Post Graduate Research and is currently pursuing a PhD in Archaeology on the prehistoric landscapes of Carrowkeel and its environs (a Neolithic passage tomb complex in Co. Sligo). He has written or contributed to a considerable number of local history articles, books and guides, including archaeological guides to Counties Sligo and Longford and wrote a book on the Archaeology of Slieve Donard; Ulster’s highest mountain. Sam was Research Associate of Prehistory and Ethnography with the University of Ulster which involved a landscape study of the Bréifne region in Northwest Ireland. He also has considerable archaeological excavation and survey experience.
Sam has lectured and guided for a wide range of audiences and lectured in archaeology at degree and diploma level at NUI, Galway. He currently lectures on a range of archaeological subjects and is Programme Chair for Applied Archaeology, School of Science at the Institute of Technology, Sligo.