Editorial

Charles Doherty: an appreciation

Fintan Walsh ‘Excavation and conjecture of a late Bronze Age farmstead at Tober, Co. Offaly’

Robert D. Stevick ‘The enigmatic form of the Cross of Cong’

Mary Kelly ‘Twelfth-century ways of learning: from Worchester or Cologne to Glendalough’

Paul Duffy ‘Ung sage et valent home: Hugh de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade’

Tadhg O’Keeffe ‘Building lordship in thirteenth-century Ireland: the donjon of Coonagh Castle, Co. Limerick’

Luke McInerney ‘A 1555 papal bulla for Clare Abbey’

Philip McEvansoneya ‘More light on Margaret Stokes and the publication of George Petrie’s Christian inscriptions in the Irish language’

Christiaan Corlett ‘The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the protection of monuments (part II)’

Miscellanea

Two third-century Roman coins from Maddocklstown, Co. Kilkenny

A previously unrecorded cross-slab from Ferns, Co. Wexford

William Lawson’s ‘A new orchard and garden (1618) and an early eighteenth-century depiction of Sir John Everard’s mansion in Fethard, Co. Tipperary

The meeting on the turret stairs by Sir Frederic William Burton (1816-1900), R.H.A., F.R.S.W., F.R.S.A., L.L.D.

Obituary: Etienne Rynne

Books reviews

Report of the Council for 2011

Statement of accounts for 2011

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