Courtney Ann Mundt

• BSc, BA, MSc MA
• PhD Researcher at Queen's University Belfast

Cillíní (children's burial grounds) are the sites where stillborn and infant children, as well as marginalised adults, were buried due to the restrictions placed by the Roman Catholic Church on burial in consecrated ground up until the middle of the twentieth century. While their origins are heavily researched, how local folklore relates to cillíni...

This study was conducted in order to uncover what motivates tourists to visit a cemetery and how they respected the dead while on a guided tour. This was done by distributing a questionnaire to thirty randomly selected tourists at Glasnevin Cemetery, the largest and most popular cemetery in Ireland. The views and previous experiences of the site's...

Sapotaceae seeds are often found well preserved in the archaeological records of the Caribbean (Newsom and Wing 2004). However, little research on the possible cultivation and domestication of the trees in the region, including between sites has been completed. Visual examination and numerical analysis of these seeds from two Caribbean sites compar...