Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Oliver's Army (original), The effect of Cromwell's conquest of Ireland and the Down Survey

Does the faith of landowners matter? How did the transfer of property in Ireland following Cromwell's (re-) conquest of Ireland effect the landscape? Maps make questions as well as answer them.
A really excellent resource on the Down Survey of Ireland has been produced by Trinity College Dublin
http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html   Of particular use for the landscape historian are the maps of Barony surveys (where they survive, some were destroyed in the 18th-c), which include main landuse (arable, boggy, etc. as well as placenames http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Corcumroe&c=Clare&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1 

Ireland

Catholic Land (16.6%)
Protestant Land (69.8%)
Common and Unprofitable Land (1.6%)
Not in Survey (12.0%)
Percentage of land ownership uses modern measurements, not the reported Down Survey values.
1641
1670


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