Patrick Gleeson is a archaeologist interested in the later prehistoric and medieval archaeology of Europe. His current research focus is the archaeloghy of cult, rulership, kingdoms and governance in the first millennium AD of northern Europe. He is particularly interested in the use of large scale remote sensing, G.I.S. and the application of new and novel methodologies at a landscape scale in these areas.He currently has ongoing field projects examing later prehistoric and early medieval cult landscapes, power centres, and royal landscapes in Ireland and Scotland, including Kedrah Fort, Lagore Crannog, Navan Fort, the Rock of Cashel and Knockainy. 

I am interested in supervising PhD research and supporting postdoctoral projects in any aspect of cult, kingship and religion in late prehistoric and medieval Europe.

Career History

2015-17 Lecturer in Archaeology, Newcastle University

2014-15 IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NUI, Galway

2014 Research Assistant, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC, Insular Monasticism at Toureen Peakaun Project

2009-14 IRC and WJ Leen (UCC) PhD, Archaeology, UCC

2008-9 MA in Medieval Archaeology, University of York

Undergraduate

ARP1010 The Archaeology of Historic Europe

ARP1013 Introduction to World Archaeology

ARP2043 Archaeology of Islands

ARP2045 St Patrick to the Plantation: the Archaeology of Historic Ireland

ARP3085 Early Medieval Europe: archaeologies of kingship and religion

Postgraduate

ARP4041 Research, Theory and Practice

ARP4202 Current debates in Irish Archaeology

AHS7031 Research Preparation Portfolio I

AHS7032 Research Preparation Portfolio II

Administrative Roles

Exams Liasion Officer (2017-19)

Pathways Programme Co-ordinator for School of Natural and Built Environment

Masters Programmes Co-ordinator

Advisor of Studies Level 4

Research Seminar Organiser

Current PhD students:

Clair Richardson, Society and the Dead: Geospatial Analysis of complex cemeteries (DfE funded)

Leidy Bojaca Gonzalez, Carved Stones in Context: Symbol Stones and Ogham (with Prof. G. Noble, Uni. of Aberdeen) (Leverhulme Trust funded)

James Bright: 'Digital phenomenology': interrogating the experience of diachronic rotual landscapes through remote sensing, 3D reconstruction and virtual reality modelling' (AHRC funded)

F. Louise Moffet: (AHRC funded) The Place of the Late Medieval Church in Ulster

Ellinor Graham: Mitigating the impacts of environmental change on cultural heritage using drone-based survey techniques (Quadrat DTP)

Holly Shipton: Landscape, Ecology and Agriculture in Medieval Ireland: a Study of Roger Bigod's Medieval Estates (DfE funded)

Winner Martyn Jope Prize 2020

Council Member of the Society for Medieval Archaeology

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Winner of the Journal of Irish Archaeology's Postgraduate Prize, 2014

Winner of the ASIMS and Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize 2013