Archaeological Work

Surveying the O’Dubhda landscape

The O’Dubhda homeland — Tír Fhiachrach, stretching from the Moy estuary to the Ox Mountains — is a landscape dense with archaeology: tower houses, ringforts, cairns, ecclesiastical sites, and the sea-edge strongholds of the clan. Much of what we know today rests on Conor Mac Hale’s 1990 survey, which identified some twenty castles associated with the O’Dubhda. No full academic re-survey has been undertaken since.

The Clan is beginning to take a more active role in documenting, preserving, and interpreting these sites. We plan to develop this page into a hub for ongoing and future work — conservation partnerships, citizen-science opportunities, publications, and collaborations with Irish universities and state agencies. If you are a researcher, student, surveyor, or enthusiast who would like to be involved, please contact us.