TY  - CHAP
AU  - McCourt, Desmond
PY  - 1971
DA  - 1971//
TI  - The dynamic quality of Irish rural settlement
BT  - man and his habitat: essays presented to emyr estyn evans
SP  - 126
EP  - 164
PB  - Barnes & Noble
CY  - New York
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Rural Irish
KW  - Eireanneach
KW  - Historical and archival research
KW  - Topography and geology
KW  - Tillage
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Real property
KW  - Renting and leasing
KW  - Household
KW  - Kin relationships
KW  - Kindreds and ramages
AB  - This is a review of historical studies of Irish settlement patterns. Nucleated and communal land owning settlements were once considered by scholars to be traditional Celtic or tribal arrangements emerging from the Iron Age. However, recent studies reveal that a flexible scheme of nucleated and dispersed settlements and joint and individual ownership co-existed, and were influenced by terrain, soil fertility, type of farming, population size, and land fragmentation. A progressive subdivision of ancestral holdings led to the communal landholding [n]rundale[/n] system. The descendants of the founding families formed larger and wider kindred associations ([n]fine[/n]) whose members grouped their houses around the original family farmstead to form nucleated settlements, or [n]clachans[/n]. The breakup of the [n]rundale[/n] system occurred when Anglo-Norman landlords confiscated land to form their estates. By 1780 less than five percent of Irish land remained in native hands. Dispersed settlements predominate, although nucleated settlements are still found in remote parts of the island.
SN  - 389040584
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=er06-024
LA  - English
N1  - Desmond McCourt
ID  - er06-024
Y1  - 2022-06-27
ER  -