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Charles Doherty: an appreciation 7
Excavation and conjecture of a late Bronze Age farmstead at Tober, Co. Offaly by Fintan Walsh 9
The enigmatic form of the Cross of Cong by Robert D. Stevick 32
Twelfth-century ways of learning: from Worchester or Cologne to Glendalough by Mary Kelly 47
Ung sage et valent home: Hugh de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade by Paul Duffy 66
Building lordship in thirteenth-century Ireland: the donjon of Coonagh Castle, Co. Limerick by Tadhg O’Keeffe 91
A 1555 papal bulla for Clare Abbey by Luke McInerney 128
More light on Margaret Stokes and the publication of George Petrie’s Christian inscriptions in the Irish language by Philip McEvansoneya 149
The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the protection of monuments (part II) by Christiaan Corlett 167
Miscellanea: Two third-century Roman coins from Maddockstown, 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. 190
Obituary: Etienne Rynne 213
Books reviews 216