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The interconnection between town and country is the central theme in this new volume. It is based on a seminar held in 2021 where contributors used and compared historic town atlases to understand how the urban landscape interacted with its suburban surroundings and rural hinterland through time. Four essays focus on Ireland, looking at the enduring and complex relationships between the urban and the rural from monastic times through to the nineteenth century. More broadly, an introduction (by Michael Potterton) gives the international context and a concluding essay (by Chris Dyer) discusses...

This book emerges from the 25 Irish Historic Towns Atlases published to date. It brings together their authors' expertise and insights under the guidance of the editor, medieval historian H.B Clarke. With an attractive and highly readable design it explores what is unique about Irish towns and what is generic. Through comparisons it considers various categories of Irish urban life, how Ireland's major towns and cities interacted and changed over time and why that might be so. It considers town morphology as a social process in the making of urban Ireland and its distinct personality. The book...

The Irish Towns Atlas project was established in the Royal Irish Academy in 1981. It traces the development of Irish towns and cities by studying historical sources and maps and publishing the results in its series of fascicles, bound volumes and ancillary productions.

This third combined and bound volume in the 'Irish Historic Towns Atlas' series follows volumes I (1995) and II (2005). A 300-page special publication, it brings together five towns and cities previously published as individual projects: Derry-Londonderry, Dundalk, Armagh, Tuam and Limerick. Maps are presented in large format and include facsimiles of old plans, historical reconstructions and thematic maps. Topographical views, illustrations, and photographs provide additional artistic perspectives. Each town/city in Volume III includes a text section with an explanatory essay and a detailed...