Selected recent presentations
Magna Carta and the Making of the Metropolis symposium. Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Dublin. 2 July
2015
Paper: Dublin's Witness to Magna Carta: Henry of London, Archbishop of Dublin.
29th Irish Conference of Medievalists, UCD, Dublin, 1-3 July 2015
Paper: Medieval Carlow: origins, growth and decline
Diet Group Symposium on ‘Dairy Foods’ Rewley House, Oxford. 23 May 2015
Paper: Dairy products in early medieval Ireland: the evidence of Aisling Meic Conglinne
Ros Tapestry/Heritage Ireland lecture series. The Library, New Ross. 28 th April 2015
Paper: The Norman impact on the Irish countryside: farming for the market
Town and Country in late medieval Ireland. A conference in memory of John Bradley. Royal Society of
Antiquaries of Ireland, 21 March 2015
Paper: ‘Going to town’: rural consumers in urban markets in medieval Ireland.
Third Glenstal History Conference. Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in
Medieval Ireland. Glenstal Abbey, 19-21 September 2014.
Paper: From swords to ploughshares. Templar agriculture in medieval Ireland
European Urban History Association’s 12th International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal 3-6 September 2014.
Paper: The water supply of medieval and early modern Dublin: municipal benevolence or instrument
of power?
28th Irish Conference of Medievalists, UCD, Dublin, 1-3 July 2014
Paper: From castles to dovecots. An analysis of the settlement components of manor centres in
medieval Ireland
Carlow 800 conference, Carlow College, 23-24 August 2013.
Paper: Growth and decline: the changing fortunes of Carlow town in the medieval period
Irish Historic Towns Atlas Seminar, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.9 March 2013
Paper: Anglo-Norman towns based on castles
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Agriculture and Settlement in Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2015) [edited volume with Matthew Stout].
The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, Land-Use and Economy. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2010)
[with Michael Potterton].
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Books:
‘From swords to ploughshares: evidence for Templar agriculture in medieval Ireland’ in Martin Browne and
Colman O Clabaigh (eds), Soldiers of Christ. The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in Medieval
Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2015), pp 167-83.
‘Introduction’ in M. Murphy and M. Stout (eds) Agriculture and Settlement in Ireland (Four Courts Press,
Dublin, 2015), pp xvi-xxx [with Matthew Stout].
‘Manor centres, settlement and agricultural systems in medieval Ireland, 1250-1350’ in M. Murphy and M.
Stout (eds) Agriculture and Settlement in Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2015), pp 69-100.
‘The Archdeacon’s Tale’ in S. Booker and C.N. Peters (eds), Tales of Medieval Dublin. (Four Courts Press,
Dublin, 2014), pp 83-91.
‘Agriculture in the Tara/Skreen region, c. AD 1170-1660’, in Muiris O’Sullivan, Chris Scarre & Maureen Doyle
(eds), Tara - from the past to the future. Towards a new research agenda (Wordwell, Bray, 2013), pp 391-400
[with Michael Potterton].
‘The ‘key of the county’: Saggart and the manorial economy of the Dublin March c. 1200-1540’ in Jennifer Ni
Gradaigh and Emmett O’Byrne (eds), The March in the Islands of the Medieval West (Brill, Leiden, 2012), pp
53-78.
‘The later medieval period’ in Paul Stevens and John Channing (eds), Settlement and community in the Fir Tulach
Kingdom. Archaeological Excavation on the M6 and N52 Road Schemes (NRA, Dublin, 2012), pp 49-56.
‘Feeding another city. Dublin and its region in the later middle ages’. In Matthew Davis and James A. Galloway
(eds), London and Beyond. Essays in Honour of Derek Keene (IHR, London, 2012), pp 3-24.
‘Waterford and its hinterland in the medieval period, 1169 to 1540’ in James Eogan and Elizabeth Shee Twohig,
(eds), Cois tSiúire – Seven Thousand Years of Human Activity in the Lower Suir Valley. Archaeological
excavations on the route of the N25 Waterford City Bypass (NRA, Dublin, 2011), pp 224-34.
‘Mapping a medieval landscape? The Civil Survey and land use in County Dublin’ in John Bradley, Alan
Fletcher and Anngret Simms (eds) Dublin in the Medieval World. Studies in honour of Howard B. Clarke (Four
Courts Press, Dublin, 2009), pp 316-344 [with Michael Potterton].
‘Rural settlement in Meath 1170-1660: the documentary evidence’ in Mary Deevy and Donald Murphy (eds),
Places Along the Way: first findings on the M3 (Wordwell, Bray, 2009), pp 153-68.
‘Tullow, from medieval manor to market town’ in Thomas McGrath (ed), Carlow History and Society
(Geography Publications, Dublin, 2008), pp 235-258.
Contribution to the introduction of Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland. Louth, Meath, Dublin and Wicklow,
compiled by Karl Brady (Stationary Office, Dublin, 2008)
‘Digging with documents: late medieval historical research on the M3 in County Meath’ in Jerry O’Sullivan and
Michael Stanley (eds), Roads, Rediscovery and Research (NRA, Dublin, 2008), pp 117-127.
‘The profits of lordship. Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk and the lordship of Carlow 1270-1306’ in Linda Doran
and James Lyttleton, (eds.), Lordship in medieval Ireland: image and reality (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007),
pp 75-98.