Irish Antiquity : Essays and Studies Presented to Professor M.J. O'Kelly Book

	Foreword
	Editorial Note
	Introduction
	Dendrochronology: the prospects for dating throughout Ireland	3
	Astronomical alignment or megalithic muddle?	23
	Native copper in north-east Ulster: a contributory factor in the establishment of the earliest Irish metal-working?	28
	Some aspects of the composition of Irish Earlier Bronze Age implements	43
	Dating Irish glass beads by chemical analysis	52
	A short study of the botanical zones on a ringfort at Simonstown, Co. Meath, used as an aid to the recovery of archaeological features	67
	An old stag at Lagore	78
	Concerning chronology	82
	The post-glacial colonisation of Ireland: the human factors	93
	The flint javelin heads of Ireland	111
	Poulawack, Co. Clare: the affinities of the central burial structure	134
	Gold discs of the Irish Late Bronze Age	147
	The antique order of the dead: cemeteries and continuity in Bronze Age Ireland	163
	Iron Age burials in Ireland	173
	Some Celtic problems in the Irish Iron Age	205
	Post-Roman drying kilns and the problem of function: a preliminary statement	216
	The date of the Moylough belt shrine	231
	Early Christian sites in the barony of Corkaguiney	241
	Anglo-Norman Dublin: continuity and change	247
	The Kavanagh 'charter' horn	269
	A pieta from Cloran Old, near Fethard, Co. Tipperary	279
	Field boundaries in Ireland	285
	The Irish element in Welsh hagiographical tradition	291
	Notes on monastic archaeology and the Annals of Ulster, 650-1050	304
	Surveys, maps and the study of rural settlement development	320
	The early Irish churches: some aspects of organisation	327
	The published work of Professor O'Kelly	343
	The Contributors	351
	Plates