ABSTRACT
The training of Irish soldiers for service in Kitchener’s New Army during the first months of the war required the establishment of training camps across the island. These camps were in most cases hastily constructed and of a temporary fabric, and facilitated the housing of tens of thousands of newly enlisted men who had volunteered to join the British Army. Archaeologists in Ireland are now considering the sites of these former training camps as archaeologically significant and are searching for vestiges of these relict militarised landscapes.
