Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press for the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 2007.

304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 269-286) and index.

Contents: Perceptions of kingship in early medieval Irish vernacular literature / Edel Bhreathnach -- Images of Gaelic lordship in Ireland, c.1200--c.1400 / Freya Verstraten -- The profits of lordship : Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and the lordship of Carlow, 1270--1306 / Margaret Murphy -- Lords of the river valleys : economic and military lordship in the Carlow Corridor, c.1200--1350 - European model in an Irish context / Linda Doran -- The Gaelic O'Driscoll lords of Baltimore, Co. Cork : settlement, economy and conflict in a maritime cultural landscape / Connie Kelleher -- The MacMurroughs and the marches of Leinster, 1170--1340 / Emmett O'Byrne -- Castles and landscapes in Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe, c.1235--c.1400 / John Malcolm -- Gaelic lords of the sea : the coastal tower houses of south Connemara / Paul Naessens -- The MacCoghlans of Devlin Eathra : the transformation of a late medieval lordship in early modern Ireland / James Lyttleton.

Land tenure -- Ireland -- History.

Castles -- Ireland.

Ireland -- Kings and rulers -- History.

Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1172-1603.

Ireland -- History -- 1172-1603.

Doran, Linda, 1951-

Lyttleton, James.

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