General overviews of Irish Cave Archaeology

Dowd, M. The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland. Oxbow, Oxford. Download book here (free)

Dowd, M. 2018. Cave archaeology in Ireland. Descent 261, 30–32. Read here

Dowd, M. 2001. Archaeology of the subterranean world. Archaeology Ireland 15(1), 24–29. Read here

Dowd, M. 2016. Underground Archaeology: Studies on Human Bones and Artefacts from Ireland’s Caves. Oxbow, Oxford. Download book here (free)

Dowd, M. 2013. The Jack Coleman archive: insights into Cork’s archaeology. Archaeology Ireland 27(4), 34–37. Read here

Dowd, M. 2013. Seeing the light of day: the archives of Jack Coleman and Dónal Gilhuys. Irish Speleology 20, 34–41. Read here

Dowd, M., Fibiger, L. and Lynch, L.G. 2006. The Human Remains from Irish Caves Project. Archaeology Ireland 20(3), 16–19. Read here

Fibiger, L., Dowd, M. and Lynch, L. 2006. Human remains from Irish Caves Project. Paleopathology Association: Irish Section News 9, 3–4. Read here

Miscellaneous cave studies

CORK

Dowd, M. 2009. Caves. In: S. Ronan, U. Egan and E. Byrne (eds.) Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5, 343. Government Stationery Office, Dublin. Read here

LEITRIM

Dowd, M. 2016. Polldownin (Polldingdong) Cave, Co. Leitrim. Sligo Field Club Journal 2, 150–151. Read here

SLIGO

Dowd, M. 2013. The archaeology and mythology of the Keash Caves, Co. Sligo. In: M.A. Timoney (ed.) Dedicated to Sligo: Thirty-four Essays on Sligo’s Past, 75–80. Publishing Sligo’s Past, Sligo. Read here

Dowd, M. 2005. Caves. In: U. Egan, E. Byrne, M. Sleeman, S. Ronan and C. Murphy (eds.) Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo. Volume 1: South Sligo, 85–86. Government Stationery Office, Dublin. Read here

Dowd, M. 2021. Toomour: Keash caves. In: S. Golden, R. Hensey, E. McNamee, U. Mannion and M. Sullivan (eds.) The Book of Sligo, 40–41.

Dowd, M. 2021. Walking Keshcorran: The view from here. Response to an art exhibition as part of the Tread Softly festival, Sligo, August 2021. Read here

Dowd, M. 2015. A note on the archaeological potential of Carns Cave, Carns townland, Sligo. Sligo Field Club Journal 1, 90–92. Read here

WATERFORD

Dowd, M. and Corlett, C. 2002. Brothers in caves – lost archives of subterranean Waterford rediscovered. Archaeology Ireland 16(1), 8–10. Read here