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- Collection: The Medieval Rural Settlement Project
Map of woodland name elements based on townland names containing ‘wood’, ‘park’, and ‘kill’.
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Relative percentage of faunal remains of three main domesticates on medieval sites in the Dublin region, and relative percentage of meat provided by each. Figures derived from an analysis of thirty published and unpublished reports.
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Cattle pasturing in a pocket of ancient woodland at Kilteel, Co. Kildare.
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Percentage of archaeological excavations in the Dublin region on which selected plant remains occur in medieval contexts (based on an analysis of fifty reports).
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Crop data from fifty-six Dublin will inventories, 1467–83 (all of these inventories listed crops in haggards or barns, threshed or in stacks). The chart plots the percentage of wills that mention each crop.
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Distribution of plough pebbles and medieval cultivation furrows in the Dublin region.
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Land-use in the Dublin region c.1300. This map plots data from manorial extents relating to the size of manorial demesne and the proportion of demesne acreage under the four major land-uses.
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Photograph of the Pale boundary at Graiguepottle, Co. Kildare
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Photograph of the Pale boundary at Graiguepottle, Co. Kildare.
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The locations of sections of the Pale boundary that are still visible in the twenty-first century.
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Distribution of churches on the borders of the Pale in the sixteenth century.
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Distribution of market towns on the borders of the Pale in the sixteenth century.
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Distribution of castles on the borders of the Pale in the sixteenth century. Most of these were tower houses.
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The Pale in the later fifteenth century, based primarily on the places mentioned in the acts of 1488 and 1495.
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Clane ‘Abbey’, Co. Kildare: this Franciscan friary was founded in the 1250s, probably by Gerald FitzMaurice, who was later buried here.
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St Wolstan’s Priory, Co. Kildare: four mills are recorded in the 1530s and it is possible that some traces of them are visible in the Shinkeen Stream, a tributary of the Liffey that bounds the site on two sides.
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St Wolstan’s Priory, Co. Kildare: this gateway is the largest and apparently least altered of the three upstanding examples. A fourth gate was still standing in 1939 but it is no longer present.
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St Wolstan’s Priory, Co. Kildare: this four-storey tower has also undergone major renovations
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St Wolstan’s Priory, Co. Kildare: one of three surviving gateways, viewed from the south. It is likely that this one was significantly remodelled after the Dissolution.
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Distribution of religious houses in the Dublin region.
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