Browsing 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 ... -
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (2015)This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland. -
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 ... -
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The exilic burial place of a Gaelic Irish community at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Cambridge University Press, 2017-07-27)This paper presents the findings of a survey of the funerary monuments and burial vault of an exiled community of Gaelic Irish who were interred (1608-23) at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. The site of their burial and ... -
Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth; Hennessy, Ronan (Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-31)Hill- and mountain-top cairns and mounds in Ireland are often viewed as epiphenomenal features of the medieval landscape. In recent years, research on early medieval ferta, ancestral burial places cited in the legal procedure ... -
Gaelic service kindreds and the landscape identity of Lucht Tighe
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Cork University Press, 2018-03-06)This paper discusses the character of the lands of householders who served the courts of Gaelic lords in later medieval Ireland and how their association with those lands, which were mostly of early medieval royal origin, ... -
The gathering place of Tír Fhiachrach? Archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co Sligo
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Royal Irish Academy, 2001)This paper explores evidence for modern popular gatherings on Aughris head land, Co. Sligo, and attempts to define the landscape on the headland where medieval royal assembly may also have taken place. The spatial ... -
Interpreting a cultural landscape: a case for seaweed-harvesting at Aughris, Co. Sligo
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI), 2007)This paper presents archaeological, historical andfolkloric evidence for a local seaweed industry on the Aughris head land, Co. Sligo, in the modem period. It is argued that over 200 earthen enclosures dotting the <ruans> ... -
The last kings of Ireland: material expressions of Gaelic lordship c.1300-1400 A.D.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Routledge, 2016-04-27)During the later medieval period in Ireland, Gaelic lords continued to publicly identify themselves as immediate descendants of kings through carefully chosen elements of material culture. Evocations of Gaelic kingship in ... -
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 ... -
Memorialising Gaelic Ireland: the curious case of the Ballyshannon fragments and the Irish monuments at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Guildhall Press, 2010)The burial place of the exiled Irish at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome (Pl. 1), is perhaps the most iconic Irish diaspora funerary site in Europe, not least because the community interred there (1608–23) are found in ... -
Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish ‘Ring-fort’
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Maney, 2009)One of the most sustained monolithic traditions of Irish archaeology is the classification of a wide variety of earthen and stone enclosures (ráth and caisel) as 'ring-forts'. This is an impediment to understanding the ... -
Ollamh, biatach, comharba: lifeways of Gaelic learned families in medieval and early modern Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015)[No abstract available] -
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 ...