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Editors: William Nolan is lecturer in Geography, University College, Dublin. Kevin Whelan
Description
The fourth volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary study ever undertaken on Wexford. 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
Wexford in prehistory 500 B.C. To 300 A.D.
Logainmneacha Loch Garman
Anglo-Norman settlement in county Wexford
Forth and Bargy - a place apart
English conquest of an Irish barony: the changing patterns of land ownership in the barony of Scarawalsh 1540-1640
Life in Wexford port 1600-1800
The lost architecture of the Wexford plantation
The estate system of county Wexford 1641-1876
Two centuries of Catholicism in county Wexford
The 1798 rebellion in county Wexford: United Irishman organisation membership, leadership
The role of the Catholic Priest in the 1798 rebellion in county Wexford
The Cloney families of county Wexford
Continuity and change in rural county Wexford in the nineteenth century
A transatlantic merchant fishery: Richard Welsh of New Ross and the Sweetmans of Newbawn in Newfoundland 1734-1862
Emigration from south Leinster to Eastern Upper Canada
Landmarks in early Wexford cartography
The Browne families of county Wexford
County Wexford in maritime history
(1992). Hardback 564 pp, 51 plates, 57 figures
Others in this series:
Vol 1. County Tipperary
Vol 2. County Wexford
Vol 3. County Kilkenny
Vol 4. County Waterford
Vol 5. County Dublin
Vol 6. County Cork
Vol 7. County Wicklow
Vol 8. County Donegal
Vol 9. County Galway
Vol 10. County Down
Vol 11. County Offaly
Vol 12. County Derry & Londonderry
Vol 13. County Laois
Vol 14. County Tyrone
Vol 15. County Armagh