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
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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