Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Cattle"
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Booleying in Achill, Achillbeg and Corraun: survey, excavation and analysis of booley settlements in the Civil Parish of Achill
(2014-04-24)Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves the movement of livestock and their keepers from lowland, permanent settlements to summer pasture, usually in the uplands, ... -
Identification and analysis of polymorphisms in miRNA genes and associated targets in Bos taurus and Bos primigenius for genomic selection in cattle
(2017-02-21)Cattle production is of high economic importance to agriculture in Ireland. For more than a decade, significant effort focused on the improvement of the selection of economically important traits in beef and dairy breeds. ... -
Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD
(2016-06-07)This thesis creates a new understanding of the phenomenon of transhumance in post-medieval Ireland, c.1550-1900 AD. Transhumance is an agro-pastoral system in which people and their livestock spend several months of each ...