Book
Graziers and grasslands: portrait of a rural Meath community 1854-1914
Irish Academic Press • (16) • Published In 1998 • Pages: 72
By: Gilligan, Jim.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical study of post-famine agricultural change in a parish in County Meath, documenting a shift from traditional subsistence farming to commercial cattle grazing. Depopulation of the region due to the famine opened up land for ranching, which replaced farming as the primary economic activity. In the 1900s, an anti-grazing movement that tried to restore the traditional farming economy met with little success. A chapter is devoted to the successful business of one rancher, representing this new entrepreneurial class.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Domesticated animals
- Real property
- Income and demand
- Price and value
- Labor supply and employment
- Wages and salaries
- Individual enterprise
- Household
- Towns
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- 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
- 1854-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Leinster, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jim Gilligan
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00502997
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Land tenure--Ireland--Dunshaughlin--History
- Dunshaughlin (Ireland)--History