Exploring the History and Heritage of Irish Landscapes (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History)
Publisher: International Specialized Book Services; Four Courts
Published: May 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781851829651
Subjects: British & Irish history; Reference works; History; Sociology; History: World; Human Geography; Europe - Ireland; Historiography; Ireland; Land use; Landscape assessment; Sources
Description: "This book highlights the principal themes and elements in the making of the landscape, and the sources which can assist historians and historical geographers in studying and understanding Irish landscape history. Major and local sources relating to the natural environment, cultural landscapes and the built environment are explored. The book also looks at representations of landscapes in literature, painting and other artistic sources which can provide insights into the nature of real and imagined worlds of the past.

The ultimate source which features prominently throughout this study is the landscape itself on which generations before us have inscribed the marks of their presence in fields, farms, houses, villages, towns, roads, lanes and the infrastructure of settlement."--Jacket.