%0 Book Section
%T Graziers and grasslands: portrait of a rural Meath community 1854-1914
%A Gilligan, Jim
%B Maynooth studies in local history
%D 1998
%N no. 16
%I Irish Academic Press
%C Portland, Or
%G English
%F er06-019
%O Jim Gilligan
%O LOC search performed 3 December 2012author copyright; unable to locate.
%O Includes bibliographical references
%X This is an historical study of post-famine agricultural change in a parish in County Meath, documenting a shift from traditional subsistence farming to commercial cattle grazing. Depopulation of the region due to the famine opened up land for ranching, which replaced farming as the primary economic activity. In the 1900s, an anti-grazing movement that tried to restore the traditional farming economy met with little success. A chapter is devoted to the successful business of one rancher, representing this new entrepreneurial class.
%K Land tenure
%K Ireland
%K Dunshaughlin
%K History
%K Dunshaughlin (Ireland)
%K Rural Irish
%K Eireanneach
%K Population
%K Domesticated animals
%K Real property
%K Income and demand
%K Price and value
%K Labor supply and employment
%K Wages and salaries
%K Individual enterprise
%K Household
%K Towns
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=er06-019
%P 72
%[ 2022-06-28