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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