The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750

Proceedings of the British Academy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2002, Pages 39-52

  Lennon, Colm ^a  

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CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HISTORY; INDUSTRY; IRELAND; MIGRATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; INDUSTRY; IRELAND; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

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6. Cf. R. Gillespie, ed., The proctor's accounts of Peter Lewis, 1564-1565 (Dublin, 1996), pp. 13-14
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8. Cited in B. Bradshaw, ed., 'Father Wolfe's description of Limerick, 1574', North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 17 (1975), 48
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12. For references to proposed repair-work to these structures, see CARD, vol. II, pp. 154, 171-2, 287, 293-4
13. See, for example, the lease to Richard Fitzsimon of the tower above Dame's Gate in 1543, and the earlier one to John Roche: CARD, vol. I, pp. 336, 413
14. The 'Account book of Dublin, 1540-1613' is held in Dublin, City Archive, MS MR/35; for the arrangements pertaining to the civic accounts, see CARD, vol. I, pp. 413-14
15. Richard Stanihurst claimed that most suburban growth in the medieval period had tended in a southerly direction along St George's Lane but that the attacks of their 'prouling mountain neighbours' had forced the citizens to abandon their dwellings and seek protection within the walled city: Stanihurst, 'Description of Ireland' in Holinshed's Irish chronicle, ed. Miller and Power, p. 48
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37. Cited in C. Maxwell, Dublin under the Georges, 1714-1830 (London, 1936), p. 297
38. See Griffin, 'The building and furnishing of a Dublin townhouse', 24-39
39. Cullen, 'The growth of Dublin', in Aalen and Whelan, Dublin city and county, pp. 260-5