TY  - CHAP
AU  - Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna
PY  - 1999
DA  - 1999//
TI  - The home "place": center and periphery in Irish house and family systems
BT  - house life: space, place and family in europe
SP  - 105
EP  - 129
PB  - Berg
CY  - Oxford
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Rural Irish
KW  - Eireanneach
KW  - Tillage
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Real property
KW  - Inheritance
KW  - Status, role, and prestige
KW  - Household
KW  - Extended families
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1859732305
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=er06-039
LA  - English
N1  - Donna Birdwell-Pheasant
ID  - er06-039
Y1  - 2022-06-28
ER  -