[See also Select bibliography of works pertaining to Spenser, Raleigh, and the archaeology and settlement of the Munster Plantation on this website]
Compiled 5/20/2013 by James Lyttleton
F.H.A. Aalen, K. Whelan and Stout. M. (eds), Atlas of the Irish rural landscape. 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
T.C. Barnard, Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008).
—, Making the grand figure, lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 (New Haven: Yale UP, 2004).
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T. Barry, “Rural settlement in medieval Ireland.“ A history of settlement in Ireland. Ed. T. Barry (London: Routledge, 2000): 110-23.
T. Bartlett, “‘This famous island set in a Virginian Sea’: Ireland in the British Empire.“ The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: the eighteenth century. Ed. P.J. Marshall (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998).
M. Bence-Jones, A guide to Irish country houses (London: Constable and Company, 1978).
C. Breen, An archaeology of southwest Ireland, 1570-1670 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
—, Dunluce Castle, history and archaeology (Dublin: Four Courts Press: 2012).
—, The Gaelic lordship of the O’Sullivan Beare (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005).
R.A. Butlin, “Land and people, c.1600.“ A new history of Ireland, early modern Ireland 1534-1691. Ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1976): 3, 142-67.
C.T. Cairns, Irish tower houses, a Co. Tipperary case study, (Ireland: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 1987).
N. Canny, “Early modern Ireland, c.1500-1700.“ The Oxford History of Ireland. Ed. R.F. Foster (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989): 88-133.
—, From Reformation to Restoration: Ireland, 1534-1660 (Dublin: Helicon Limited, 1987).
—, “Introduction: Spenser and the Reform of Ireland.“ Spenser and Ireland, an interdisciplinary perspective. Ed. P. Coughlan (Cork: Cork UP, 1989): 9-24.
—, Kingdom and colony, Ireland in the Atlantic world 1560-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988).
—, Making Ireland British 1580 - 1650 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001).
—, The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: a pattern established 1565-76 (Hassocks: The Harvester Press Ltd, 1976).
“The ideology of English colonization: from Ireland to America.“ William and Mary Quarterly 30 (1973), 576-98.
M. Carroll, Castles of County Limerick (Bantry: Bantry Studio Publications, 2005).
—, The Castles and Fortified Houses of West Cork (Bantry: Bantry Studio Publications, 2001).
V. Chinnery, “Barryscourt refurbished, the reinstatement of a late sixteenth century Irish domestic interior.“ Barryscourt Lectures Series. Ed. J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2004): 177-224.
A. Clarke, “The Irish economy, 1600-60.“ A new history of Ireland, early modern Ireland 1534-1691. Ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1976): 3, 168-86.
E. Cotter, “Architectural change and the parish church in post-Reformation Cork.“ The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland. Ed. E. Fitzpatrick and R. Gillespie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 266-76.
—, “Dún na Séad Castle: an early 17th-century house at Baltimore, Co. Cork.“ Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (2010), 115, 31–54.
M. Craig, Classic Irish houses of the middle size (London: Architectural Press Ltd and Architectural Book Publishing, 1976).
—, The architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880 (Portrane: Lambay Books, 1989).
B. de Breffny, Castles of Ireland (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977).
B. de Breffny and R. Ffolliott, The houses of Ireland (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975).
B. de Breffny and G. Mott, The churches and abbeys of Ireland (London: Thames and Hudson, 1976).
J.A. Delle, “‘A good and easy speculation’: spatial conflict, collusion and resistance in late sixteenth-century Munster, Ireland.“ International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3.1 (1999), 11-35.
—, “Extending Europe’s grasp, an archaeological comparison of colonial spatial processes in Ireland and Jamaica.“ Old and New Worlds. Ed. G. Egan and R. L. Michael (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999): 106-116.
C.J. Donnelly, “The I.H.S. monogram as a symbol of Catholic resistance in seventeenth-century Ireland.“ International Journal of Historical Archaeology 9.1 (2005), 37-42.
—, “Tower houses and late medieval secular settlement in county Limerick.“ Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650, land, lordship and settlement. Ed. P.J Duffy, D. Edwards and E. Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 315-28.
C.J. Donnelly and A. Horning, “Post-medieval and industrial archaeology in Ireland: an overview.“ Antiquity 76 (2002), 557-61.
D. Edwards, P. Lenihan and C. Tait (eds), Age of atrocity: violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010).
J. Farrelly, “Decorative render in the late sixteenth / early seventeenth century.“ From ringforts to fortified houses, studies on castles and other monuments in honour of David Sweetman. Ed. C. Manning (Bray: Wordwell, 2007): 237-60.
J. Feehan, Farming in Ireland (Dublin: Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, 2003).
J. Fenlon, “Moving towards the formal house: room usage in early modern Ireland.“ Publications of the Royal Irish Academy 111C (2010), 141–168.
—, “Portumna: a great, many-windowed and gabled house.“ Clanricard’s Castle, Portumna House, Co. Galway. Ed. J. Fenlon (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012): 49-82.
—, “‘They say I build up to the sky’: Thomas Wentworth, Jigginstown House and Dublin Castle.“ Dublin in the Renaissance. Ed. M. Potterton and T. Herron (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011): 207-23.
E. Fitzpatrick, Royal inauguration in Gaelic Ireland, c.1100-1600: a cultural landscape study. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004).
—, “The material world of the parish.“ The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland, community, territory and building. Ed. E. Fitzpatrick and R. Gillespie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 62-75.
E. Fitzpatrick and P. Walsh, “Buildings and architecture.“ Archaeological investigations in Galway City, 1987-1998. Ed. E. Fitzpatrick, M. O’Brien and P. Walsh (Bray: Wordwell, 2004): 337-55.
A. Ford, “The Protestant Reformation in Ireland.“ Natives and newcomers, the making of Irish colonial society, 1534-1641. Ed. C. Brady and R. Gillespie (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1986): 50-74.
—, The Protestant Reformation in Ireland, 1590-1641. 2nd edition. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997).
R. Gillespie, Devoted people, belief and religion in early modern Ireland. (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997).
—, “Funerals and society in early seventeenth century Ireland.“ Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1985), 115, 86-91.
—, “Irish funeral monuments and social change 1500-1700, perceptions of death.“ Ireland, art into history. Ed. R. Gillespie and B.P. Kennedy (Dublin: Town House, 1994): 155-68.
—, “The image of death, 1500-1700.“ Archaeology Ireland (1992), 6, 8-10.
—, “The religion of Irish Protestants: a view from the laity, 1580-1700.“ As by law established, the Church of Ireland since the Reformation. Ed. A. Ford, J. McGuire and K. Milne (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1995): 89-99.
—, “The Problems of Plantations: material culture and social change in early modern Ireland.“ Plantation Ireland. Ed. J. Lyttleton and C. Rynne (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009): 43-60.
—, The Sacred in the Secular: religious change in Catholic Ireland, 1500-1700. Fifth Annual lecture in Catholic Studies. (Colchester, VT: St. Michael’s College, 1993).
—, “Urban parishes in early seventeenth-century Ireland: the case of Dublin.“ The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland, community, territory and building. Ed. E. Fitzpatrick and R. Gillespie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 228-41.
A. Gomme and A. Maguire, Design and plan in the country house, from castle donjons to Palladian boxes (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008).
A. Hadfield, “Irish colonies and the Americas.“ Envisioning an English empire: Jamestown and the making of the North Atlantic World. Ed. R. Appelbaum and J. Wood Sweet (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005): 172-91.
V.A. Hall, “The documentary and pollen analytical records of the vegetational history of the Irish landscape AD 200-1650.“ Peritia 14 (2000), 342-69.
A. Hamlin and N. Brannon, “Northern Ireland: the afterlife of monastic buildings.“ The archaeology of the Reformation 1480-1580. Ed. D. Gaimster and R. Gilchrist (Leeds: Maney, 2003): 252-66.
—, Spenser’s Irish Work: poetry, plantation and colonial reformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
T. Herron, and M. Potterton (eds), Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
A. Horning, “Dwelling houses in the old Irish barbarous manner: Archaeological evidence for Gaelic architecture in an Ulster plantation village.“ Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650, land, lordship and settlement. Ed. P. J. Duffy, D. Edwards and E. Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 375-96.
—, “The archaeology of British expansion: Ireland and North America in the seventeenth century.“ The post-medieval archaeology of Ireland, 1550-1850. Ed. A. Horning et al. (Bray: Wordwell, 2007): 51-70.
—, “‘The root of all vice and bestiality’: exploring the cultural role of the alehouse in the Ulster plantation.“ Plantation Ireland. J. Lyttleton and C. Rynne (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009): 113-31.
A. Horning, R. Ó Baoill, C. Donnelly and P. Logue (eds), The post-medieval archaeology of Ireland, 1550–1850 (Bray: Wordwell, 2007).
O. Horsfall Turner, “Ruin and reparation: medieval parish churches in seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century Ossory.“ Irish Gothic architecture. Ed. R. Stalley (Bray: Wordwell, 2012): 161-99.
P.M. Kerrigan, Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945 (Cork: Collins Press, 1995).
E. Klingelhofer, Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2010).
—, “Castles built with air: Spenserian architecture in Ireland.“ Military studies in medieval Europe. Papers of the ‘Medieval Europe Brugge 1997’ Conference 11, Zellick, 149-54.
—, “Elizabethan Settlements: Mogeely Castle, Curraglass, and Carrigeen, Co. Cork (Part 1).“ Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 104 (1999), 97-110.
—, “Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman Castle: the archaeological evidence.“ Post-Medieval Archaeology 39.1 (2005), 133-54.
—, “Elizabethan Settlements: Mogeely Castle, Curraglass, and Carrigeen, Co. Cork (Part 2).“ Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 105 (2000), 155-74.
—, “Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland.“ Historical archaeology, back from the edge. Ed. P.P.A. Funari, M. Hall and S. Jones (London and NY: Routledge, 1999): 164-79.
—, “The architecture of empire: Elizabethan country houses in Ireland.“ Archaeologies of the British: explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies 1600-1945. Ed. S. Lawrence (London and NY: Routledge, 2003): 102-15.
—, “Tudor overseas fortifications: a review and typology.“ First forts, essays on the archaeology of proto-colonial fortifications. Ed. Eric Klingelhofer (Leiden: Brill, 2010): 65-83.
E. Klingelhofer and J. Lyttleton, “Molana Abbey and its New World Master.“ Archaeology Ireland 24.4 (2010), 32-5.
H.G. Leask, “Early seventeenth-century houses in Ireland.“ Studies in building history: essays in recognition of the work of B.H. St. John O’Neil. Ed. E.M. Jope (London: Odhams Press, 1961): 243-50.
—, Irish castles and castellated houses (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1951).
—, Irish churches & monastic buildings. 3 vols. (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1960).
H.G. Leask and R.A.S. Macalister, “Liathmore-Mochoemog (Leigh), County Tipperary.“ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 51C (1946), 1-14.
R. Loeber, “An architectural history of Gaelic castles and settlements, 1370-1600.“ Gaelic Ireland, land, lordship & settlement c.1250-c.1650. Ed. P.J. Duffy, D. Edwards and E. Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 271-314.
—, “Early Classicism in Ireland: architecture before the Georgian era.“ Architectural History 22 (1979), 49-63.
—, “Irish architectural sketches from the Perceval/Egmont collection.“ Decantations, a tribute to Maurice Craig. Ed. A. Bernelle (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992): 110-20.
—, “Irish country houses and castles of the late Caroline period: an unremembered past recaptured.“ Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society 6.1-2 (1973), 1-69.
—, “The early seventeenth-century Ulster and midland plantations, part I: pre-plantation architecture and building regulations.“ (ed.), “The mirror of Great Britain“: national identity in seventeenth-century British architecture. Ed. O. H. Turner (Reading: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2012): 73-99.
—, “The early seventeenth-century Ulster and midland plantations, part II: the new architecture.“ “The mirror of Great Britain“: national identity in seventeenth-century British architecture. Ed. O. H. Turner (Reading: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2012): 101-38.
—‚ The geography and practice of English colonisation in Ireland from 1534 to 1609. (Athlone: The Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 1991).
R. Loeber and G. Parker, “The military revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland.“ Ireland from independence to occupation. Ed. J. H. Ohlmeyer (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995): 66-88.
R. Loeber and T. Reeves-Smyth. “Lord Audley’s grandiose building schemes in the Ulster plantation.“ Reshaping Ireland. Ed. Mac Cuarta (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011): 82-100.
J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (eds), Medieval Ireland, the Barryscourt lectures I-X, (Kinsale: Gandon, 2004).
J. Lyttleton, Blarney Castle, an Irish tower house (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011).
—, The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly: an archaeology of a changing world (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013).
—, “Natives and newcomers: Plantation-era archaeology on Irish road schemes.“ Encounters between peoples. Ed. B. Kelly, N. Roycroft and M. Stanley (Dublin: Proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on national road schemes, August 2011, 2012): 77-92.
—, “Rathcline Castle, an archaeology of plantation in Co. Longford.“ Longford, history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county. Ed. M. Morris & F. O’Ferrall (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2010): 135-59.
J. Lyttleton and C. Rynne (eds), Plantation Ireland: settlement and material culture, c.1550–c.1700 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009).
M. McAuliffe, “The lady in the tower, the social and political role of women in tower houses.“ The fragility of her sex? Medieval Irish women in their European context. Ed. C.E. Meeks and M.K. Simms (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996): 153-62.
M. MacCarthy-Morrogh, “The English presence in early seventeenth century Munster.“ Natives & newcomers, the making of Irish colonial society 1534-1641. Ed. C. Brady and R. Gillespie (Sallins, Co. Kildare: Irish Academic Press, 1986): 171-90.
—, The Munster Plantation, English migration to southern Ireland 1583-1641 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
B. Mac Cuarta (ed.), Reshaping Ireland, 1550 –1700, colonization and its consequences (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011).
C. Manning (ed.), From ringforts to fortified houses: studies on castles and other monuments in honour of David Sweetman (Bray: Wordwell, 2007).
—, “Irish tower houses.“ Towers and smaller castles, Europa Nostra Bulletin 63 (2009), ed. G. Perbellini, 19–30.
E. McCracken, The Irish woods since Tudor times (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971).
T. McNeill, Castles in Ireland: feudal power in a Gaelic World (London: Routledge, 1997).
T.E. McNeill, “The larger castles of later medieval Co. Limerick.“ Limerick and south-west Ireland. Ed. R. Stalley (Leeds: British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIV, 2011): 176-88.
F. Mitchell and M. Ryan, Reading the Irish landscape. (Dublin: Town House, 1998).
J. Morrissey, “Searching for common ground: colonialism and collaboration in early modern Tipperary.“ Tipperary Historical Journal 18 (2005), 25-30.
K. Morton, “Irish medieval wall painting.“ Medieval Ireland, the Barryscourt Lectures I–X. Ed. J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (Kinsale: Gandon, 2004): 313-49.
R. Moss, “Reduce, reuse, recycle: Irish monastic architecture c.1540–1640.“ Irish Gothic architecture. Ed. R. Stalley (Bray: Wordwell, 2012): 115-59.
D. Newman Johnson, “Kilcolman Castle.“ The Spenser Encyclopedia. Ed. A.C. Hamilton (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990): 416-22.
K. Nicholls, Gaelic and gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972).
—, “Gaelic society and economy.“ A new history of Ireland, medieval Ireland 1169-1534, ii. Ed. A. Cosgrove (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987): 397-438.
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—, “Woodland cover in pre-modern Ireland.“ Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650, land, lordship and settlement. Ed. P.J. Duffy, D. Edwards and E. Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 181-206.
J. Nunan, “The fortified houses of County Cork: origin, form, fabric, function and social use of space.“ MA thesis. (Cork: University College Cork, 2005).
É. Ó Ciardha & M. Ó Siochrú (eds), The plantation of Ulster: Ideology and practice. (Manchester UP, 2012), 158-175.
K.D. O’Conor, The archaeology of medieval rural settlement in Ireland. Discovery Programme Monograph No.3. (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1998).
C. Ó Danachair, “Irish tower houses and their regional distribution.“ Bealoideas 45-47 (1977-79), 158-163.
M. O’Dowd, “Gaelic economy and society.“ Natives and newcomers, the making of Irish colonial society 1534-1641. Ed. C. Brady and R. Gillespie (Sallins, Co. Kildare: Irish Academic Press, 1986): 120-47.
J.H. Ohlmeyer, ”‘Civilizinge of those Rude Partes‘: colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s.” The origins of empire: British overseas enterprise to the close of the seventeenth century. Oxford history of the British empire, 1.127-47.5 vols. Ed. N. Canny (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998).
T. O’Keeffe, ”Barryscourt castle and the Irish tower-house.” Medieval Ireland, the Barryscourt lectures I-X. Ed. J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (Kinsale: Gandon, 2004): 3-31.
—, ”Concepts of ‘castle’ and the construction of identity in medieval and post-medieval Ireland.” Irish Geography 34.1 (2001), 69-88.
—, Medieval Ireland, an archaeology. (Stroud: Tempus, 2000).
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S.P. Ó Riordáin and J. Hunt, ”Medieval dwellings at Caherguillamore, County Limerick.” Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 72 (1942), 37-63.
S. Pender (ed.), A census of Ireland circa 1659, with supplementary material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660 - 1661) (Dublin: Irish Manuscript Commission, 1939).
D. Pollock, The bawn exposed: recent excavations at Barryscourt. In J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (eds), Medieval Ireland, the Barryscourt Lectures I-X. (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2004): 145-75.
—, ”The Barryscourt hall and the remains of some other medieval timber buildings.” From ringforts to fortified houses. Ed. C. Manning (Bray: Wordwell, 2007): 261-72.
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D.B. Quinn, Ireland & America: their early associations, 1500-1640. (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1991).
—, ”Ireland and sixteenth-century European expansion.” Historical Studies 1 (1958), 20-32.
—, ”The Munster Plantation: problems and opportunities.” Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 71 (1966), 19-40.
—, ”Renaissance influences in English colonisation.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 26 (1976), 73-93.
T. Reeves-Smyth, ”Community to privacy: late Tudor and Jacobean manorial architecture in Ireland, 1560–1640.” The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland. Ed. A. Horning et al. (Bray: Wordwell, 2007): 289-326.
—, ”Irish gardens and gardening before Cromwell.” Medieval Ireland, the Barryscourt Lectures I-X. Ed. J. Ludlow and N. Jameson (Kinsale: Gandon, 2004): 99-143.
H. Ronnes, ”Continental traces at Carrick-on-Suir and contemporary Irish castles: a preliminary study of date-and-initial stones.” Ireland in the Renaissance. Ed. T. Herron and M. Potterton (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007): 255-73.
W. Roulston, ”Domestic architecture in Ireland, 1640–1740.” The Post-medieval Archaeology of Ireland. Ed. A. Horning et al. (Bray: Wordwell, 2007): 327-44.
M. Samuel, ”A tentative chronology for tower houses in West Cork.” Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 103 (1998), 105-24.
R. Sherlock, ”An introduction to the history and architecture of Bunratty Castle.” Limerick and south-west Ireland. Ed. R. Stalley (Leeds: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIV, 2011): 202-18.
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K. Simms, From kings to warlords: the changing political structure of Gaelic Ireland in the later Middle Ages. (Woodbridge Boydell and Brewer, 1987).
W.J. Smyth, ”Ireland a colony: settlement implications of the revolution in military-administrative, urban and ecclesiastical structures, c.1550 to c.1730.” A history of settlement in Ireland. Ed. T. Barry (London: Routledge, 2000): 158-86.
—, Map-making, landscapes and memory: A geography of colonial and early modern Ireland c.1530-1750 (Cork: Cork UP, 2006).
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R. Stalley (ed.), Daniel Grose (c.1766–1838): The antiquities of Ireland, a supplement to Francis Grose (Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive, 1991).
— (ed.), Irish Gothic architecture: construction, decay and reinvention (Bray: Wordwell, 2012).
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D. Sweetman, Medieval castles of Ireland. (Cork: Collins Press, 1999).
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D. Sweetman, ”The tower houses of County Louth.” Towers and smaller castles, Europa Nostra Bulletin 63 (2009), ed. G. Perbellini, 31–34.
C. Tait, ”Colonising memory: manipulations of death, burial and commemoration in the career of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork 1566-1643.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101C (2001), 107-34.
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A. Thomas, The walled towns of Ireland, 2 vols (Sallins, Co. Kildare: Irish Academic Press, 2006).
V. Treadwell, The Irish Commission of 1622, an investigation of the Irish administration 1615–1622, and its consequences, 1623–1624 (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2006).
S. Weadick, ”How popular were fortified houses in Irish castle building history? A look at their numbers in the archaeological record and distribution patterns.” Plantation Ireland. Ed. J. Lyttleton and C. Rynne (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009): 61-85.
T.J. Westropp, ”The ancient castles of the County of Limerick.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26C (1907), 55-108; 143-264.