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Studies of Irish rural settlement
Geographical Review • 48 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 554-566
By: Johnson, James Henry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a good introduction to the variety of rural Irish settlement patterns. The author concentrates on the distribution of isolated farm settlements as opposed to the [n]clachan[/n] type (groupings into hamlets). He provides a general overview of problems and theories concerning Irish rural settlement, with an examination of work by earlier researchers. Also covered are methods of investigating the origins, distribution and development of rural settlement patterns.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- James H. Johnson
- Includes bibliogrphical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015422
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Country life--Ireland