While you're not wrong, I just wanted to point out that I have been scouring the quarterly archaeological reports put out by the National Roads Authority Archaeology People (the main public library in Dublin has every government publication) and while it's true that there is a real dearth of late pRIA stuff, there is also a real lack of interest in the period and kinda always has been. To quote UCD,
So, although we really know very little about this period at the moment, it is possible that important finds remain to be discovered. If you're interested, you can search all the registered sites in Ireland by county here.Current knowledge of Iron Age Ireland is largely restricted to an artefact record which is biased towards the north of the country, a limited burial record and a small, but significant, group of specialised monuments – the so–called Royal sites. However, very little is known of the vernacular culture of the Irish Iron Age, particularly where and how people lived, the types of houses they built and their industrial activities. This problem, encapsulated in the phrase “The Invisible People”, (coined by Barry Raftery in his Pagan Celtic Ireland in 1994) has contributed to the enigmatic character of the period.
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