Ireland Encastellated, Ad 950-1550: Insular Castle-Building in Its European Contect

by Tadhg O'Keeffe

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland to the tenth century in line with the revised chronology of castle-building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846828635
• ISBN13: 9781846828638
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"