Product Description
This publication includes a large map with an introductory essay, all folded to a handy pocket-size. Over 116 historical sites have been mapped and indexed. Colour and symbols are imposed on a modern base so the reader can walk the streets of New Ross with a view to the past, map in hand.
About the Author
Linda Doran is a graduate of University College, Dublin where she completed her PhD in 2001. She carried out studies of medieval settlement along the valleys of the Barrow, Nore and Suir rivers (2002 and 2004), funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland. She is editor of the New Ross section of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and joint editor of Lordship in medieval Ireland: image and reality (2007). She is Honorary General Secretary of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Her research interests include medieval communication routes, river valley settlement and the parallels between Irish and north-western European medieval settlement patterns.
