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The Use of GIS in Determining the Role of Visibility in the Siting of Early Anglo-Norman Stone Castles in Ireland
Lisa Karen McManama-Kearin
This work examines the effectiveness of the use of GIS and GIS viewsheds as tools in the study of medieval castles in Ireland. To date, archaeological usage of GIS viewsheds has centred on prehistoric funerary sites. Little work has been done using GIS in relation to medieval castles, a subject and time-frame which is well documented. To date, no work has tested GIS and viewshed analysis across a wide comparative sample of castles. This study uses GIS to examine the visibility of and the views from structures about which much is known. A comparable set of twenty sample castles were taken from a particular period in one social/geographical context, the first century of English lordship in Ireland. Research objectives included exploring the priorities of the first three generations of Anglo-Norman castle builders in Ireland, by determining if there are patterns in site choices. Specifically the project aims to establish whether visibility may have played a role in the siting of these castles.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Front Matter
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ABSTRACT
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NOTES
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Part I
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 GIS and Archaeology
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Chapter 3 Boundaries of the two approaches
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Chapter 4 Data used
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Part II
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Chapter 5 Corpus of castle research
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Part III
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Chapter 6 Implications of the analysis
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Chapter 7 General siting of castles
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Chapter 8 Projective views of the three communities within the castle
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Chapter 9 Reflective views of the two communities outside the castle
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Chapter 10 Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Published: 2013
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407310749 (paperback)
- 9781407322544 (ebook)
BAR Number: B575