Agriculture and settlement in Ireland /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	xxx, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Agriculture -- Ireland -- History. Land settlement -- Ireland -- History. Land settlement. Agriculture. Ireland -- History. Ireland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13312732

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Other authors / contributors:	Murphy, Margaret (Lecturer in history), editor. Stout, Matthew, editor.
ISBN:	1846825075 9781846825071
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-215) and index.
Summary:	Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and the Agricultural History Society of Ireland, this collection explores the relationship between Irish settlement and agricultural practice from the Neolithic to the 18th century. The types of farming that took place in any particular period of Irish history had a powerful impact on the development of settlement. Interdisciplinary studies in this volume address key periods to illustrate that process: from the spread of Neolithic pastoralism, the very basis of farming on the island; through the medieval focus on tillage, which gave rise to manorial villages and granges; to the 18th-century agricultural revolution and the impact that had on urban and rural landscapes.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The evolution of cattle and cattle farming systems: the genetic evidence
2. The early medieval farm
3. The Cistercian grange: a medieval farming system
4. Manor centres, settlement and agricultural systems in medieval Ireland, 1250-1350
5. The origins of the creaght: farming system or social unit?
6. The changing structure of Irish agriculture in the seventeenth century
7. Collon, Co. Louth: the landscape legacy of an eighteenth century estate
8. Farming and settlement: some dynamic relationships
Bibliography
Index

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