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Inishbofin: an Atlantic island
Economic Geography • 34 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 202-209
By: Freeman, Thomas Walter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief examination of the economic geography of an island off the northwest coast of County Galway. The focus is on fishing and potato farming, the landscape, and the settlement pattern and population. The author notes that the relative comfort of the population was made possible only by government assistance; the island is not self-supporting under modern economic conditions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Land use
- Public welfare
- Settlement patterns
- External migration
- Domesticated animals
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inishbofin, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- T. W. Freeman
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- gs 25000119
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Country life--Ireland
- Ireland--Social life and customs