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The Irish ringfort / Matthew Stout.

By: Stout, Matthew.
Contributor(s): Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Irish settlement studies ; no.5.Publisher: Dublin : Four Courts Press, in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, c1997Description: 142p : ill, maps ; 24cm.ISBN: 185182300X (v) (correct).Subject(s): Dwellings, Prehistoric -- Ireland | Fortification, Prehistoric -- Ireland | Iron age -- Ireland | Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- IrelandDDC classification: 941.501 STO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book examines all aspects of the Irish ringforts; their shape and size, their date and function with special attention to national distribution patterns. Reference to contemporary written sources brings to the fore the people who dwelt within ringforts and their relationship with neighbouring farmsteads and religious communities. This study focuses on the lives and material remains of people who are often neglected in historical studies: the men and women who were not the kings and saints of official history.

Bibliography: p135-142.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (p. 7)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 10)
  • Introduction (p. 11)
  • 1 Morphology (p. 14)
  • 2 Chronology (p. 22)
  • 3 Function (p. 32)
  • 4 Economy (p. 35)
  • 5 Environment (p. 39)
  • 6 Distribution (p. 48)
  • Zones of low density (North-west Ulster, West Connaught, Leinster) (p. 53)
  • Zones of median density (East Ulster, Erne Basin, Central Mayo, South Munster) (p. 65)
  • Zones of high density (South-east Ulster, North Midlands, South-East Connaught, North Munster) (p. 76)
  • Zones of very high density (North-east Connaught, West Clare, West Limerick) (p. 93)
  • Ringforts and ecclesiastical sites (p. 100)
  • Summary of distribution (p. 106)
  • 7 Early Christian settlement and society (p. 110)
  • Conclusion (p. 131)
  • Bibliography (p. 135)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Matthew Stout is cartographer in the Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin