Duffy, Patrick
(2012)
The Territorial Organisation of Gaelic Landownership and its Transformation in County Monaghan, 1591-1640.
In:
Anniversary Essays: Forty Years of Geography in Maynooth.
National University of Ireland Maynooth, pp. 57-83.
ISBN 9780992746605
Abstract
An increasing amount of information is available about the organisation
and functioning of Gaelic society, especially in the crucial area of
landholding, its legal basis and the way in which inheritance and tenurial
systems operated.
In spite of these growing insights, there is still very fragmentary
knowledge about the spatial organisation of Gaelic society. It is generally
accepted that the landscape legacy of small territorial divisions
(townlands), and the documentary legacy of numerous extinct
denominations, are indicative of an apparently systematic and
comparatively uniform territorial organisation. Its exact function and
nature are still unclear, however, and there are seeming inconsistencies in
some views of a highly developed territorial system on the one hand and
a socially mobile and fluid population on the other.
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Book Section
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| Additional Information: |
First published in Irish Geography, (1981) 14, 1-26 |
| Keywords: |
Territorial Organisation; Gaelic Landownership; Monaghan; 1591-1640; Anniversary Essays; Geography; Maynooth; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
5586 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Patrick Duffy
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Dec 2014 17:13 |
| Publisher: |
National University of Ireland Maynooth |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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