Catherine Swift (historian)

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Catherine Swift is a research fellow at the Centre for Human Settlement and Historican Change at National University of Ireland, Galway.

She has published a number of works on historical and archaeological themes in the early Irish church and society.

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• The social and ecclesiastical background to the treatment of the Connachta in Tírechán's seventh-century 'Collectanea' (unpublished Doc. Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1993).
• Tírechán's motives in compiling the Collecteana: An alternative interpretation, in Éiru 45, pp.53-82, 1994.
• Pagan monuments and Christian legal centres in early Meath, in Ríocht na Midhe 9.2, pp.1-26.
• Tara - A select bibilography by Edel Bhreathnach, review article in Ríocht na Midhe, 9.3, pp.12-27.
• Ogham Stones and the Earliest Irish Christians, Maynooth, 1997. ISBN 0 901519 98 7
• St Patrick, Skerries and the early evidence for church organisation in Ireland in The Island of St Patrick:Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148 by Ailbhe MacShamhráin, pp.61-78.