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Editors: William Nolan is lecturer in Geography, University College, Dublin. Kevin Whelan is a Newman Scholar in the department of Geography, University College, Dublin

(1990)

Description

The third volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary study ever undertaken on Kilkenny. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, placename scholars and historians of economics, culture and politics combine to provide an attractive account of this key region

Contents:

The archaeology of early settlement in county Kilkenny

Some crosses of county Kilkenny

The early development of the medieval town of Kilkenny

County Kilkenny in the Anglo-Norman period

Richard de Ledrede, John Clyn, James Grace, David Rothe - the earliest chroniclers of Kilkenny

The Ormond Butlers of county Kilkenny

Territorial, social and settlement hierarchies in seventeenth century Kilkenny

The changing composition of Kilkenny's landowners 1641-1700

The Catholic Church in county Kilkenny 1600-1800

Social and economic conflict in county Kilkenny 1600-1800

The social and economic evolution of Kilkenny in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Callan - a corporate town 1700-1800

Parliamentary representation in county Kilkenny in the eighteenth century

Inland city: Reflections on eighteenth century Kilkenny

Old World antecedents, new World adaptations: Inistioge immigrants in Newfoundland

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