Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740

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This volume assembles Rolf Loeber’s groundbreaking articles on Irish houses and castles from the late medieval period to the mid eighteenth century. Read together, these articles, mainly from...
Author/Editor: Rolf Loeber

Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath

Colonial monasticism in medieval Ireland

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Little remains of the Augustinian priory of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, founded by Geoffrey de Costentin around the year 1200 and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Its...
Author/Editor: Tadhg O’Keeffe

The Dublin region in the middle ages

Settlement, land-use and economy

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This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained and was defined...
Author/Editor: Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton

Blarney Castle

An Irish tower house

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Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle...
Author/Editor: James Lyttleton

Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Gara's of Coolavin

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Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth...
Author/Editor: Kieran O’Conor, editor

The royal manors of medieval Co. Dublin

Crown and community

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This book is the first full-length study of the royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons (all in south Co. Dublin) in the period 1170...
Author/Editor: Áine Foley

Archaeology and Celtic myth

An exploration

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In this book John Waddell contends that elements of pre-Christian Celtic myth preserved in medieval Irish literature shed light on older traditions and beliefs not just in Ireland...
Author/Editor: John Waddell