Kevin McGuire
Independent Scholar/NUI, Galway postgraduate
Stepping Out of the Ordinary
It is important for a community to investigate and record its history, archaeology and folk traditions. In this regard, studies of the Ballyhaunis and the wider mid-Connacht area, including Kiltullagh and Mannin, have the advantage of being able to draw upon the life’s work of two pioneering local antiquarians who ‘stepped out of the ordinary’ to document the material culture of the district. The notebooks and photographs of R.I.C. policeman Patrick Lyons (1861-1954), housed at RSAI and NUIG, and the scrapbooks of archaeological field work of M.F. Waldron (1876-1954), digitised by Mayo County Library, have been of huge interest to antiquarians, archaeologists and historians in Connacht and further afield for over sixty years.
Kevin McGuire is an archaeologist and historian. A graduate of GMIT, his final year thesis was on the material culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Ultachs of Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. He completed a Diploma in Archaeology at NUIG in 2018. Kevin has contributed articles to the Journal of the Old Tuam Society and the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society Journal.
Kevin McGuire is an archaeologist and historian. A graduate of GMIT, his final year thesis was on the material culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Ultachs of Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. He completed a Diploma in Archaeology at NUIG in 2018. Kevin has contributed articles to the Journal of the Old Tuam Society and the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society Journal.