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- Collection: The Medieval Rural Settlement Project
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: 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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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: 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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Swords Castle, Co. Dublin: the north tower (seen here) is probably fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century in date. It is sometimes referred to as the ‘Constable’s Tower’.
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Taghadoe Church and round tower, Co. Kildare, 2009. This church was erected with a grant from the Board of First Fruits in 1831.
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The 233 parishes in the Dublin region. Many of the parish boundaries follow natural topographic features such as rivers and streams.
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The builders of the late medieval tower at the church in Lusk, Co. Dublin, constructed a circular turret at three corners of the new tower. It was built in such a way that the existing round tower (back left) fits neatly into the fourth corner.
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The church at Cloncurry, Co. Meath, viewed from the top of the motte. The bell-cote is probably a fifteenth-century addition to a gable that has a slight base batter.
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The church at Mainham, Co. Kildare, was built on a site overlooking the Gollymochy River. The present building, which has undergone extensive reconstruction, consists of a long nave and an unusual square tower with four protruding corner turrets.
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The church at Oughterard, Co. Kildare, was fitted with a bell-cote (now largely missing), despite the fact that there was a round tower just ten metres from it.
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The Dublin region, showing the 30km zone, baronies and extended study area.
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The early medieval granite cross in the graveyard at Newcastle Lyons, Co. Dublin significantly pre-dates the present church, much of which was built in the fifteenth century.
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The gatehouse and castle at Rathcoffey, Co. Kildare, are set within large open fields that have been producing arable crops most years for the best part of a thousand years.
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The interior of the church beside Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, looking west.
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The known medieval landing places in the Dublin region, attested in the sources (map by Niall Brady).
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The large, flat-toppped motte at Galtrim, Co. Meath, was probably built by Hugh de Hussey in the early 1170s, but appears to have been abaondoned by 1176.
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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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The main methods of woodland management are A) coppicing and B) pollarding.
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The motte at Clane, Co. Kildare. This tree-covered earthwork castle is now surrounded by a housing estate.
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