Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "O'Conor, Kieran"
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Booleying in Achill, Achillbeg and Corraun: survey, excavation and analysis of booley settlements in the Civil Parish of Achill
McDonald, Bridget Theresa (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, ... -
A multi-disciplinary study of lordly centres in the later medieval Uí Chellaig lordship of Uí Maine, c.1100-1600 AD.
Curley, Daniel Patrick (NUI Galway, 2021-12-22)The Ó Cellaig lordship of Uí Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. The central aim of this thesis is to identify and reconstruct the physical appearance of ... -
Parks and Deer-Hunting: Evidence from Medieval Ireland
Beglane, Fiona (2012-05-14)This thesis examines aspects of hunting in later medieval Ireland, with particular reference to the Anglo-Norman period, from 1169 to c. 1350. The focus is on deer hunting and on parks, in which fallow deer could be kept. ... -
A social archaeology of Anglo-Norman Cork
Gleeson, Caitríona M. (2015-05-26)The Anglo-Norman occupation of Cork permanently altered the physical and societal landscape of the city, and its immediate surrounding area. Over the course of nearly a century and a half, a small but functioning harbour ... -
Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD
Costello, Eugene (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 ...