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Editors: William Nolan is lecturer in Geography, University College, Dublin. Thomas P. Power is a Historian in Ontario, Canada

Description

The fourth volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary study ever undertaken on Waterford. 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 prehistory of County Waterford

• The monastery of Lismore, A.D. 638-1111

• Late Viking Age settlement in Waterford City

• Romanesque architecture and sculpture at Ardmore

• The topographical development of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman Waterford City

• Anglo-Norman County Waterford 1200-1300

• Mayors and merchants in medieval Waterford 1169-1495

• Church, crown and corporation in Waterford city, 1520-1620

• County Waterford from the Civil Survey

• Electoral politics in Waterford City 1692-1832

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