Theresa McDonald - B.Sc., M.A., M.I.A.I. PhD. Candidate

Managing Director

Theresa founded the Achill Archaeological Field School in 1991, the first of its kind in Ireland. She studied archaeolgy at the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) in London and at NUI Galway where she is currently undertaking a Ph.D on Transhumance practice in Achill Civil Parish. She has lectured in archaeology at the VEC in Tullamore, Co. Offaly and founded the Tullamore and District Archaeological Society, now incorporated in the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society. She has written two books and published several papers on the archaeology, history and folklore of Achill Island and is regarded as the foremost expert on the archaeology and history of the island. She is a Duchas licensed archaeologist and has worked on many excavations in both Ireland and Britain.

In 2009, she co-founded with Sheila McHugh, the Achill Historical and Archaeological Society (AHAS), which holds monthly meetings at the Archaeology Centre in Dooagh and elsewhere on Achill.