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Atlas of the Irish rural landscape

Aalen, F. H. A.2011
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Subject: This is an illustrated introduction to the hidden riches of the Irish landscape. Topics include archaeology, field and settlement patterns, houses, demesnes, villages and small towns and many more. It combines illustrations and cartography with a text amenable to a general reader. The Irish landscape : synthesis of habitat and history ---- Early landscapes : from prehistory to plantation ---- Recovering the hidden landscape ---- Removing antiquities : an aerial perspective / The challenge of change : facing the future : Celtic Tiger housing / Bogs : Raised bogs : The changing use of raised bogs -----Ardee Bog, County Louth ---- Blanket bogs / Forests and woodlands / Fields / Houses : Housing history , Kilclone, County Meath / Buildings of the Irish countryside / The joy of small things : Handball alleys / Towns and villages : Slane village / Demesnes / Communications : Road art / Mining , power , wind and water : Mining and quarrying : Millstone quarries on the Hook peninsula : Wind power : Water power : Water supply / Regional case studies : Wicklow uplands, County Wicklow ------ Tory Island , County Donegal ----- Aughris Headland, County Sligo ---- Inistioge and the Nore Valley, County Kilkenny ------ Point Lance : an Irish settlement in Newfoundland
Príomhtheideal:
Atlas of the Irish rural landscape / edited by F. H. A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout.
Eagrán:
2nd ed., rev. & expanded.
Inphrionta:
Cork : Cork University Press, 2011.
Leathanaigh in ord:
(viii), 352 p. : ill., maps ; 31cm.
Nótaí:
Bibliography p.414, includes bibliographies; webography p.415.
ISBN:
9781859184592
Rangúchán Dewey:
911.415911.415 oversized911.415 LH914.17
I dteanga:
English
BRN:
1743431
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