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Duffy, Patrick (2004) Townlands: territorial signatures of landholding and identity. In: The heart's townland: marking boundaries in Ulster. The Ulster Local History Trust in association with The Cavan-Monaghan Rural Development Co-operative Society, pp. 18-38. ISBN 0 9542832 1 X
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Abstract
There is a certain territorial logic to our referencing points when we describe where we are from. In the Bronx or Melbourne, or London, there is little point in introducing oneself as being from Ballynahalisk (County Cork), or
Drumskinney and Montiaghroe (County Fermanagh). It is obviously a question of scale. But there is also a latent sense of 'It's-such-a-small-rural-backward-blip-on-the-landscape' that I wouldn't mention it. This was
especially true up to forty or fifty years ago, when there was a sensitivity about rural rusticity, reflected in the term 'culchie'.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords: | Local history; Ireland; Ulster; Townlands; Identity; Land; Boundaries. |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: | 1255 |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Patrick Duffy |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2009 13:56 |
| Publisher: | The Ulster Local History Trust in association with The Cavan-Monaghan Rural Development Co-operative Society |
| Refereed: | No |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/1255 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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