Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-c.1650 : land, lordship, and settlement / Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, and Elizabeth FitzPatrick, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duffy, Patrick J.

Edwards, David, 1963-

Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth.

Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--1172-1603.

Ireland.

History.

Physical Description:

454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press for the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: Recovering Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-c.1650 / Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, Elizabeth FitzPatrick 21

Part I. The Lordships: Political Structure and Social Organisation

I Collaboration without Anglicisation: The MacGiollapadraig Lordship and Tudor Reform / David Edwards 77

II Delusions of Dal Riada: The Co-ordinates of Mac Domnaill Power, 1461-1550 / Simon Kingston 98

III Social and Spatial Order in the MacMahon Lordship of Airghialla in the Late Sixteenth Century / Patrick J. Duffy 115

IV Fosterage and Gossiprid in Late Medieval Ireland: Some New Evidence / Fiona Fitzsimons 138

Part II. The Natural and Built Environment: Some Documentary and Scientific Records

V The Mapping of Ireland's Cultural Landscape, 1550-1630 / John H. Andrews 153

VI Woodland Cover in pre-Modern Ireland / Kenneth Nicholls 181

VII Tephra-dated Pollen Studies of Medieval Landscapes in the North of Ireland / Valerie A. Hall, Lynda Bunting 207

VIII Settlement and Place-names / Nollaig O Muraile 223

IX Native Sources for Gaelic Settlement: The House Poems / Katharine Simms 246

Part III. Settlement Studies: The Architectural and Archaeological Record

X An Architectural History of Gaelic Castles and Settlements, 1370-1600 / Rolf Loeber 271

XI Tower Houses and Late Medieval Secular Settlement in County Limerick / Colm J. Donnelly 315

XII The Morphology of Gaelic Lordly Sites in North Connacht / Kieran D. O'Conor 329

XIII The Archaeology of Gaelic Lordship East and West of the Foyle / Thomas E. McNeill 346

XIV Assembly and Inauguration Places of the Burkes in Late Medieval Connacht / Elizabeth FitzPatrick 357

XV 'Dwelling houses in the old Irish barbarous manner': Archaeological Evidence for Gaelic Architecture in an Ulster Plantation Village / Audrey J. Horning 375

XVI Crannogs in Late Medieval Gaelic Ireland, c.1350-c.1650 / Aidan O'Sullivan 397

XVII The Maritime Cultural Landscape in Medieval Gaelic Ireland / Colin Breen 418.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1851825479

OCLC:

44914884