@Misc{er06-039,
  author = 	{Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna},
  title = 	{home "place": center and periphery in Irish house and family systems},
  year = 	{1999},
  publisher = 	{Berg},
  address = 	{Oxford},
  pages = 	{105--129},
  keywords = 	{Ireland; Rural conditions; Rural Irish; Eireanneach; Tillage; Dwellings; Settlement patterns; Real property; Inheritance; Status, role, and prestige; Household; Extended families},
  abstract = 	{In this study of rural Ireland house systems, the author claims that land was not the ruling symbol in the Irish mentality; rather it was family and place, as shown in an examination of ancient legal tracts. Documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from one region in County Kerry reveal a diversity of house and settlement types. Under English law the loss of security in customary land tenure shifted the nexus of identity away from land and towards the family, leading to land fragmentation and "ephemeral" housing, and undermining the balance between population and resources, with disastrous consequences during the Great Famine. Additionally, the author provides a comparison between the types and quality of housing in the post-famine and modern periods.},
  note = 	{Donna Birdwell-Pheasant},
  note = 	{LOC search performed 21 December 2012editors copyright; received permission from Lawrence-Zuniga; unable to locate Birdwell-Pheasant.},
  note = 	{Includes bibliographical references(p. 126-129)},
  isbn = 	{1859732305},
  url = 	{https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=er06-039},
  language = 	{English}
  note =        {Accessed on: 2022-06-28}
}