Dept of Archaeology, UCC
Dr Colin Rynne BA, PhD is a graduate of UCC. He has published many books including: At the sign of the cow: the Cork Butter Market 1769-1924 (1998); The industrial heritage of county Cork (2019). He was also an editor of the multi-disciplinary volume titled The Heritage of Ireland (2000) and Plantation Ireland settlement and material culture, c. 1550-c.1700 (2009). His research interests include medieval agriculture, medieval and post-medieval iron working in Ireland and Irish industrial archaeology. His currently working on and IRC project, with Dr David Edwards of the Department of History, UCC, mapping the seventeenth-century colonial landscapes of Richard Boyle, Ist earl of Cork.