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Transhumance and the Making of Ireland's Uplands, 1550-1900 (Hardcover)
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Transhumance and the Making of Ireland's Uplands, 1550-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: Garden and Landscape History
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First full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the
sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. WINNER:
American Conference for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for
Distinguished First Book Commendation, Publication Prize in Irish
History, NUI Awards 2021 The rearing of cattle is today a fairly
sedentary practice in Ireland, Britain and most of north-west
Europe. But in the not-so-distant past it was common for many rural
households to take their livestock to hill and mountain pastures
for the summer. Moreover, ethnographic accounts suggest that a
significant number of people would stay in seasonal upland
settlements to milk the cows and produce butter and cheese.
However, these movements all but died out in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, meaning that today transhumance is mainly
associated with Alpine and Mediterranean landscapes. This book is
the first major interdisciplinary approach to the diversity and
decline of transhumance in a northern European context. Focusing on
Ireland from c.1550 to 1900, it shows that uplands were valuable
resources which allowed tenant households to maintain larger herds
of livestock and adapt to global economic trends. And it places the
practice in a social context, demonstrating that transhumance
required highly organized systems of common grazing, and that the
care of dairy cows amounted to a rite of passage for young women in
many rural communities.
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