Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "FitzPatrick, Elizabeth"
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Archaeological watermarks: Settlement, landscape and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland
O'Flaherty, Enda (NUI Galway, 2020-09-21)Turloughs are karst wetland ecosystems that are virtually unique to Ireland. They are intermittently inundated on an annual basis, mainly from groundwater. This thesis concerns the interaction of past communities with the ... -
Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: Studies of transplantation settlement in Connacht and Clare
Campbell, Eve Jennifer (2012-10-26)This thesis is a study of three diverse Catholic families that received land during the mid seventeenth-century Cromwellian transplantation to and within Connacht and Clare. Transplantees, while being united in their ... -
Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland
Gray, Elizabeth (2016-01-31)This thesis is the first comprehensive study of ritual drinking vessels of horn and wood from later medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland. The research provides an analysis of the drinking vessels and offers an ... -
Medieval settlement enclosures and resource management of living trees in Gaelic Ireland
Casby, Peter (NUI Galway, 2019-08-23)The aim of this thesis is to problematise and investigate relationships between living trees and earthen settlement enclosures, mainly termed ráth and commonly used by Gaelic society in medieval Ireland (c. 8th – 17th ... -
Patronage and Observance: The Franciscan and Dominican friaries in the Connacht lordships of Clann Uilliam Uachtair and Clann Uilliam Íochtair, 1350-1550
McDermott, Yvonne (2012-05-18)This research examines the Franciscan and Dominican friaries in the Connacht Burke lordships of Clann Uilliam Íochtair and Clann Uilliam Uachtair in the west of Ireland, 1350-1550. The principal aims are to establish how ... -
Rural landscapes of improvement in Ireland, 1650-1850: An archaeological landscape study
Clutterbuck, Richard (2015-01-13)Ireland's modern landscapes of fields and farms were largely fashioned in the later historic period, between c.1650 and 1850. This was the infancy of modern rural Ireland, when the concepts of property and tenure, landlords ... -
Settlement clusters at parish churches in Ireland, c. 1200-1600 AD
Gray, Richard (2016-04-06)This thesis investigates the archaeology and cultural history of small settlements that occur at parish churches in English- and Gaelic- dominated lordships of Ireland, c. 1200-1600 AD, in order to propose their origins ...