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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
McCourt, Desmond
Title:
The dynamic quality of Irish rural settlement
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Man and his habitat: essays presented to Emyr Estyn Evans,
edited by R.H. Buchanan, Emrys Jones and Desmond McCourt
Published By: Original publisher
Man and his habitat: essays presented to Emyr Estyn Evans,
edited by R.H. Buchanan, Emrys Jones and Desmond McCourt
New York: Barnes & Noble. 1971. 126-164 p.
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By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Desmond McCourt
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2016. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Rural Irish (ER06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Historical and archival research (127);
Topography and geology (133);
Tillage (241);
Settlement patterns (361);
Real property (423);
Renting and leasing (427);
Household (592);
Kin relationships (602);
Kindreds and ramages (612);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a review of historical studies of Irish settlement
patterns. Nucleated and communal land owning settlements were once considered by scholars
to be traditional Celtic or tribal arrangements emerging from the Iron Age. However, recent
studies reveal that a flexible scheme of nucleated and dispersed settlements and joint and
individual ownership co-existed, and were influenced by terrain, soil fertility, type of
farming, population size, and land fragmentation. A progressive subdivision of ancestral
holdings led to the communal landholding [n]rundale[/n] system. The descendants of the
founding families formed larger and wider kindred associations ([n]fine[/n]) whose members
grouped their houses around the original family farmstead to form nucleated settlements, or
[n]clachans[/n]. The breakup of the [n]rundale[/n] system occurred when Anglo-Norman
landlords confiscated land to form their estates. By 1780 less than five percent of Irish
land remained in native hands. Dispersed settlements predominate, although nucleated
settlements are still found in remote parts of the island.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
24
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
er06-024
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
not applicable
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Historian-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard; 2014
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1650-1900
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ireland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ireland--Rural conditions
