The first extract below comes from an article published this morning in the Irish Times but the paragraph that follows comes from a small website describing excavations at Lisnagun Ringfort, Co. Cork in the 1980s.
Is it just me or is there a striking similarity?
Irish Times, Aug 10th 2010
"Ring forts were built and occupied between circa AD 400 and circa AD 1200, in the Early Christian and Viking periods. Like stone cashels and some lakeland crannógs, they were the defended farmsteads of the native Irish Celts.These settlements were centres of mixed farming economy, and were largely self-sufficient in the production of tools, textiles and household goods. About 35,000 ring fort sites are currently identifiable in the Irish landscape – they are clearly marked on Ordnance Survey 6“ maps".
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0810/1224276470654.html
Lios na gCon Website
Ringforts were built and occupied between c.400 AD and c.1200 AD, in the Early Christian and Viking periods. Like stone cashels and some lake land crannogs, they were the defended farmsteads of the native Irish Celts. These settlements were centres of mixed farming economy, and were largely self-sufficient in the production of tools, textiles, and household goods. About 35,000 ringfort sites are identifiable in the Irish landscape today - they are clearly marked on Ordnance Survey 6" maps of which a small sample has been archeologically (sic) investigated.
http://liosnagcon.com/ringfort/index.shtml
The sad thing is, this kind of lazy journalism takes away from the point of the article, which is an important one about the apparent illegal destruction of archaeological monuments.
Thanks to Terry O'Hagan, a colleague of mine in UCD whose well-honed plagiarism detector, developed over long years of first-year essay correction, picked this up.
Is it just me or is there a striking similarity?
Irish Times, Aug 10th 2010
"Ring forts were built and occupied between circa AD 400 and circa AD 1200, in the Early Christian and Viking periods. Like stone cashels and some lakeland crannógs, they were the defended farmsteads of the native Irish Celts.These settlements were centres of mixed farming economy, and were largely self-sufficient in the production of tools, textiles and household goods. About 35,000 ring fort sites are currently identifiable in the Irish landscape – they are clearly marked on Ordnance Survey 6“ maps".
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0810/1224276470654.html
Lios na gCon Website
Ringforts were built and occupied between c.400 AD and c.1200 AD, in the Early Christian and Viking periods. Like stone cashels and some lake land crannogs, they were the defended farmsteads of the native Irish Celts. These settlements were centres of mixed farming economy, and were largely self-sufficient in the production of tools, textiles, and household goods. About 35,000 ringfort sites are identifiable in the Irish landscape today - they are clearly marked on Ordnance Survey 6" maps of which a small sample has been archeologically (sic) investigated.
http://liosnagcon.com/ringfort/index.shtml
The sad thing is, this kind of lazy journalism takes away from the point of the article, which is an important one about the apparent illegal destruction of archaeological monuments.
Thanks to Terry O'Hagan, a colleague of mine in UCD whose well-honed plagiarism detector, developed over long years of first-year essay correction, picked this up.
The offending Irish Times article
