Sarah Gormley
Profile
On completion of her undergraduate degree, Sarah was employed within the School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology as a researcher and undertook a number of post-excavation and research projects, including EDM topographical surveys at Romney Marsh in Kent and at Northton on the Isle of Harris, the compilation of a published database of all artefacts found in Co. Fermanagh, and the management of the post-excavation programme for sites excavated by CFA Archaeology Ltd. at Ballyprior Beg and Portmuck in Co. Antrim. In 2004 Sarah completed an MPhil degree, with a dissertation on The Phasing and Dating of the Timber Circle Complex, Ballynahatty, Co. Down. Sarah has subsequently undertaken Phase 2 of the Condition and Management Survey of the Archaeological Resource for Northern Ireland, a project which assessed the survival and condition of 1500 sites and monuments. More recently she has directed excavations at St Thomas’ Church, Rathlin Island and St Elizabeth’s Church, Dundonald, Co. Down and is currently working on the compilation of a report for publication on the excavations which were undertaken at Parke’s Castle, Co. Leitrim between 1971 and 1975.
Selected Publications & Reports
Books/Monographs
Gormley, S., Donnelly, C.J., Hartwell, B. and Bell, J. (2009) CAMSAR: A Condition and Management Survey of the Archaeological Resource in Northern Ireland, TSO.
Williams, B.B. and Gormley, S., with contributions by MacCartan, S., Donnelly C.J. and Gilmour, G. (2002) Archaeological Objects from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Archaeological Monographs No.5, Environment and Heritage Service and Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
Journal Articles
Gormley, S., 2009. An excavation at St Thomas' Church, Rathlin Island, County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 68, 64-101.
General Reader Publications
Gormley, S., Donnelly, C., Hartwell, B., and Bell, J. (2009) ‘Monumental Change?’, Archaeology Ireland, 23.2, 11-13.
Mc Granaghan C., Gormley S., and R. Logue. (2007) ‘Burials in a Country Churchyard: the cemetery at St Elizabeth’s Church of Ireland church, Dundonald, Co. Down’, Archaeology Ireland, 21.3, 24-25.
Gormley, S. and McNeill, T.E. (2001) ‘Castle or Office block?’, Archaeology Ireland 15.1.
Specialist Reports
Gormley, S. (2007) Pottery from sites at Magheraboy, Caltragh and Tonafortes, Co. Sligo. (Reports given as appendices in CD format in Danaher, E. (2007) Monumental Beginnings, The Archaeology of the N4 Sligo Inner Relief Road. NRA Scheme Monographs 1.)
Plunkett, G., with appendices by Gormley, S. and Wilson, P. (2004) ‘Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment at Grangemore Dunes, Co. Derry’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 63.
Gormley, S. (2004) ‘The Pottery’ in Anderson, S. and Rees, A.R. ‘The excavation of a Medieval rural settlement site at Portmuck, Islandmagee, County Antrim’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 63, 86-92.
Simpson, D.D.A., Gregory, R.A. and Murphy, E.M., with contributions from Clarke, A., Cram, L., Gormley, S., Holmes, N.M.McQ, Hunter, F., McCartney, M., McGill, C. and Nelis, E.L. (2004) ‘Excavations at Kaimes Hill, Ratho, City of Edinburgh 1964-72’, Proceedings of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. 134.
Gormley, S. (2003) ‘The Pottery’ in Suddaby, I. ‘The excavation of two Late Bronze Age round houses at Ballyprior Beg, Islandmagee, County Antrim’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology,Vol 62, 62-67.
Book Reviews
McSparron, C. and Gormley, S. (2005) Book review of Clare McCutcheon’s Medieval pottery from Wood Quay, Dublin: The 1974-6 Waterfront Excavations. National Museum of Ireland, Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Series B, Vol 7, 2006, RIA, Dublin, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 64.
Internal Reports
Gormley, S. (2007) St Thomas’ Church, Church Quarter, Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim, CAF Data Structure Report: No. 48.
Nelis, E., Gormley, S., McSparron, C. and Kyle, A. (2007) Excavations at St Patrick’s Church, Armoy, Co. Antrim, CAF Data Structure Report: No. 44.
Hartwell, B. and Gormley, S. (2004) Timber Circle Complex, Ballynahatty, Co. Down, Excavation 1990 – 2000, Data Structure Report (unpublished report prepared for EHS: Built Heritage).
Gormley, S., Matthews G., Hartwell, B and Donnelly, C.J. (2002) Condition and Management Survey of the Archaeological Resource for Northern Ireland: Report on the CAMSAR (NI) Pilot Project (unpublished report prepared for EHS: Built Heritage).
Gormley, S., ed. (2001) Archaeological Excavations of a Suite of Medieval Features at Portmuck, Islandmagee, County Antrim: Reports on the post-excavation analysis of the material culture (unpublished report prepared for CFA Archaeology Ltd.).
Gormley, S., ed. (2001) Archaeological Excavations at Ballypriorbeg, Islandmagee, County Antrim: Reports on the post-excavation analysis of the material culture (unpublished report prepared for CFA Archaeology Ltd.).
McNeill, T.E. and Gormley, S. (2000) Dunineny Castle, Co. Antrim, Research Excavation, Data Structure Report (unpublished report prepared for CFA for EHS: Built Heritage).
