Preface / Conleth Manning
David Sweetman : a personal memoir / Michael Ryan
David Sweetman's contribution to Irish archaeology / Matthew Stout
The publications of David Sweetman / Rosanne Meenan
A brief look at aspects of ringfort morphology and distribution / Eamon Cody
Sites, social change and warfare in the second half of the first millennium AD : a reappraisal / James Lyttleton and Michael Monk
Shape-shifting : enclosures in the archaeological landscape / Tracy Collins and Frank Coyne
The origins of Irish castles : a contribution to the debate / Terry Barry
Clough Castle reconsidered / T.E. McNeill
The castle at Castlerahan, County Cavan / Patrick F. O'Donovan and Ciarán Parker
An eroding earthwork castle in Wexford / Claire Breen
The motte-and-bailey castle at Lissardowlan, County Longford / Kieran O'Conor and Johnny de Meulemeester
The medieval settlement at Rathgall, County Wicklow / Barry Raftery
The "Bend of the Finn" : an archaeological landscape in east Donegal / Brian Lacey
Into the west : a survey and reassessment of the two most westerly archaeological sites in Europe / Victor M. Buckley, Tom Condit and Kieran O'Conor
Irish castle studies: a view from across the sea / John Kenyon
Thomas Johnson Westropp and his study of the medieval tower houses of Counties Clare and Limerick / Colm Donnelly
Medieval imported building stone and utilised stone in Wales and Ireland / Jeremy Knight
Adare Castle : raising bridges and raising questions / Laurence Dunne
The castle at Ballingarry, County Tipperary : a fourteenth-century Gaelic castle / Caimin O'Brien
Hartwell Castle and bawn : a monastic grange? / Gearóid Conroy
The fort of the ships / Connie Kelleher
Maghernacloy Castle and the Hadsors / Conleth Manning
The almshouses of Fethard, County Tipperary / Barry O'Reilly
Decorative render in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century / Jean Farrelly
A Renaissance doorway architrave from the Elizabethan period at Bremore Castle, County Dublin / David Newman Johnson
The Barryscourt hall and the remains of some other medieval timber buildings / Dave Pollock
Listowel Castle, Listowel, County Kerry / Grellan D. Rourke - "A decorative outburst" : the sedilia at Holycross Abbey, County Tipperary / Ann Lynch
Ships on plaster : evidence for ships in medieval Ireland / Karl Brady and Chris Corlett
The church and tower house at Dowth, County Meath / Geraldine Stout
A medieval "shrine chapel" on Church Island, Lough Key, County Roscommon / Heather King
The origins and technical development of the blast furnace in Ireland c. 1596-c. 1740 / Colin Rynne.
From ringforts to fortified houses : studies on castles and other monuments in honour of David Sweetman. ISBN 9781905569168. Published by Wordwell in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.