Fiona Beglane is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Some highlights are given here, but see her Academia and Researchgate profiles for full details and downloads. In the past few years her publications have been focused on collaborating with isotope and genetic specialists to shed new light on the past.

Guidelines

Beglane, F., Coogan, A., Duffy, S., Fhionnghaile, R.M. and Murray, E. (eds) 2021. Zooarchaeological Sampling Guidelines: best practice for the treatment, analysis and curation of animal bones from archaeological excavations. Transport Infrastructure Ireland. https://www.tiipublications.ie/library/DN-ARC-03078-01.pdf

Peer-reviewed books and monographs

Beglane, F. (ed.) 2017. Gatherings: past and present.  Oxford: BAR International Series, no. 2832.

Beglane, F. 2015. Anglo-Norman parks in medieval Ireland: 1169-c.1350.  Four Courts Press, Dublin.

Journal editorship

Pigière, F., Beglane, F., Deschler-Erb, S., Valenzuela-Lamas, S. (Guest editors). Animals in Roman economy: production, supply, and trade within and beyond the empire’s frontiers. Proceedings of the 3rd ICAZ_Roman Period Working Group Meeting, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Special issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104137.

Beglane, F. (ed). 2017 [2018]. Journal of Irish Archaeology. 26.

Beglane, F. (ed) 2016 [2017]. Journal of Irish Archaeology. 25.

Selected peer-reviewed papers

Guiry E, Beglane F, Carlin N, Orton D, Teeter M, Szpak P. Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange. 2025. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Published online 91, 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714Z.0000000004010.1017/ppr.2025.10063

Guiry E, Beglane F, Szpak P, McCormick, F, Teeter, MA, Cheung, C, Richards, MP. 2023. Changing human-cattle relationships in Ireland: a 6000-year isotopic perspective. Antiquity. 97 (396), 1436-1452. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714Z.0000000004010.15184/aqy.2023.163

Jamieson, A, Carmagnini, A, Howard-McCombe, J, Doherty, S, Hirons, A, Dimopoulos, E, Lin, AT, Allen, R, Anderson-Whymark, H, Barnett, R, Batey, C, Beglane, F, Bowden, W, Bratten, J, De Cupere, B, Drew, E, Foley, NM, Fowler, T, Fox, A, Geigl, E-M, Gotfredsen, AB, Grange, T, Griffiths, D, Groß, D, Haruda, A, Hjermind, J, Knapp, Z, Lebrasseur, O, Librado, P, Lyons, LA, Mainland, I, McDonnell, C, Muñoz-Fuentes, V, Nowak, C, O’Connor, T, Peters, J, Russo, I-RM, Ryan, H, Sheridan, A, Sinding, M-HS, Skoglund, P, Swali, P, Symmons, R, Thomas, G, Zetner, TZ, Jensen, TJ, Kitchener, AC, Senn, H, Lawson, D, Driscoll, C, Murphy, WJ, Beaumont, M, Ottoni, C, Sykes, N, Larson, G, Frantz, L. 2023. ‘Limited historical admixture between European wildcats and domestic cats’, Current Biology, 33, (21), 4751-4760.e14, ISSN 0960-9822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.031.

Beglane, F. 2023. ‘The fat of the land: meat and milk products in medieval Ireland.’ in Atici, L. and Arbuckle, B. (eds) Food Provisioning in Complex Societies. Colorado University Press. 71-91. https://doi.org/10.5876/9781646422562.c004

Beglane, F. 2022. ‘Mammalian faunal remains from Stalleen, Co. Meath’, in Stout, G. and Stout, M. (Eds.) Excavation of a multi-period site at Stalleen, Co. Meath, by Mandy Stephens: Research in the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site. Julianstown: Chapel Press. 74-106.

Beglane, F. and Jones, C. 2021. ‘Hares, juvenile domesticates, structured deposition, and ritual in the Neolithic court tomb at Parknabinnia, Ireland’. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35. 102672. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102672.

Beglane, F. and O’Sullivan, J., 2020. A vanishing medieval church site on Ireland’s Atlantic coast: a longitudinal study of coastal erosion at Staad Abbey, Co. Sligo, 1837–2020, Journal of Irish Archaeology. 29, 177-189.

Beglane, F. 2018. ‘Forests and chases in medieval Ireland, 1169 – c. 1399′.  Journal of Historical Geography, 59: 90-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.11.002

Beglane, F. 2016. ‘The faunal remains’, in Stout, G & Stout, M, eds. The Bective Abbey Project: Archaeological Excavations 2009–12. Dublin: Wordwell, 106-153.

Beglane, F. 2015. ‘The social significance of game in the diet of later medieval Ireland’. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 115C: 167-196. https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2015.115.02.  

Beglane, F. 2014. ‘Theatre of power: the Anglo-Norman park at Earlspark, Co Galway, Ireland’ Medieval Archaeology. 58: 307-17. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714Z.00000000040.