The Substation, NIAH 50011170, Dublin Port
Excavations beneath the former electricity substation has reveal the eighteenth century sea wall of Dublin an engineering marvel.
Talk by Dr. Niall Brady: History & Archaeology of Ballintubber, Castles in Communities fieldschool 2024
Breaking News, 16/11/2024: The national Heritage Awards were announced yesterday by the Heritage Council. Ballintubber Tidy Towns won the coveted county award for Roscommon, and the highlight of their submission was a public lecture given by Niall Brady on the 2024 season of archaeological research completed in the village. History & Archaeology of Ballintubber, Castles [...]
The Dublin Port Heritage Conservation Strategy is launched
On behalf of Heritage Director Lar Joye and Special Projects Director Jim Kelleher, ADCO is delighted to have led the heritage team appointed by Dublin Port Company through RPS Consulting Engineers to prepare the Dublin Port Heritage Conservation Strategy, which was launched on 30 April 2024 by Minister Malcolm Noonan at Dublin Port Company, with a [...]
As Dublin Port Dredges, an Archaeologist Watches for Treasures
Erin McGuire of the Dublin Inquirer visits Dublin Port and talks with Niall Brady of ADCO and Lar Joye of Dublin Port on recent capital dredging operations within the Port's navigation channel To read Erin's article in the Dublin Inquirer Click Here
University of Minnesota visits Dublin Port and the ABR project
As part of a summer school on Irish culture, a party of 18 students and their two faculty guides (Jimmy Schryver and Julie Erkerle) visited Dublin Port to meet with Lar Joye and Jim Kelleher of the Port’s Heritage and Communications office, and to see the archaeological discoveries being made as part [...]
A Castle in Our Community
A look back at Foothill College’s Ireland Program Summer 2017 and the welcoming community of Ballintober in County Roscommon Click Here to find out more about Castles in Communities
Alexandra Basin Redevelopment project 2016-23.
ADCO is appointed by Dublin Port Company as their project archaeologist for the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment project 2016-23. ADCO was part of the RPS-led team for the project EIS, which achieved planning consent in 2015. The ABR is one of Ireland’s largest infrastructural projects of the present moment, and will see the redevelopment of its Deepwater Basin to [...]
ADCO in an advisory capacity
ADCO has an advisory role in the University of Vienna’s research initiative into the prehistory of the Upper Austrian lakes. The Institute for Archaeological Science at the University of Vienna, in partnership with the Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, and the County of Lower Austria, Department of Culture as part of the UNESCO- World Heritage [...]