Agriculture and settlement in Ireland

Margaret Murphy & Matthew Stout, editors

Introduction
Margaret Murphy & Matthew Stout

The evolution of cattle and of cattle farming systems: the genetic evidence
Patrick Cunningham

The early medieval farm
Matthew Stout

The Cistercian grange: a medieval farming system
Geraldine Stout

Manor centres, settlement and agricultural systems in medieval Ireland, 1250–1350
Margaret Murphy

The origins of the creaght: farming system or social unit?
Katharine Simms

The changing structure of Irish agriculture in the seventeenth century
Raymond Gillespie

Collon, Co. Louth: the landscape legacy of an eighteenth-century estate
Matthew Stout, Michael Carey, Jim Collins, L.M. Cullen, Tim Gleeson, Tony Leavy and Eileen Murphy

Farming and settlement: some dynamic relationships
Brendan Riordan