Achill Archaeological Field School

The Achill Archaeological Field School, founded in 1991, is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology and an accredited Field School of the National University of Ireland, Galway. Our mission is to promote the discipline of archaeology through academic and field-based study programmes for national and overseas students that combine in-depth training with state-of-the art archaeological research. The Field School supplements field-based learning with weekly field trips to local sites and monuments and provides a series of evening lectures, seminars, and conferences on topics of historical and archaeological interest.

The Achill Field School usually conducts two archaeological excavations each year and these create an ideal training environment in which we can teach archaeology students to excavate and to record the results of their archaeology excavations. We offer six, four and two week accredited modular courses, as well as shorter survey and introductory courses.