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Title:: Great Irish households : inventories from the long eighteenth century / preface by Leslie Fitzpatrick ; foreword by Toby Barnard ; consultant editor Tessa Murdoch ; transcriptions by Jessica Cunningham and Rebecca Campion ; with preambles by Jessica Cunningham, Rebecca Campion, Edmund Joyce, Alec Cobbe and John Adamson ; index and appendices by John Adamson.
Alternate Title(s):: Inventories from the long eighteenth century
Published / Created:: Cambridge : John Adamson, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:: 435 pages : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 390 - 391) and index.
Contents:: Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, 1702/3 -- The Ormond Inventories. Kilkenny Castle, Co. Kilkenny,1705 ; Dublin Castle, 1707 ; The Duke of Ormonde's House, London, c. 1710 -- Bishop's mansion house, Elphin, Co. Roscommon, 1740 -- Captain Balfour's town house, auction sale, Dublin, 1741/2 -- Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down, 1746 and 1777 -- Kilrush House, Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, 1750 -- No. 10 Henrietta Street, Dublin (Luke Gardiner's house), 1772 -- Morristown Lattin, Co. Kildare, 1773 -- Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone, 1782 -- Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, 1798 -- Killadoon, Co. Kildare, 1807-29 -- Shelton Abbey, near Arklow, Co. Wicklow, 1816 -- Borris House, Co. Carlow, 1818 -- Carton House, Co. Kildare, 1818 -- Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, 1821 -- Mount Stewart, Co. Down, 1821.
Subject Terms:: Mansions -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century -- Inventories. | House furnishings -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century -- Inventories. | Gentry -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century. | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Gentry. | House furnishings. | Manners and customs. | Mansions. | Ireland.
Form/Genre:: History. | Inventories.
Contributors:: Fitzpatrick, Leslie, writer of preface. | Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher), writer of foreword. | Murdoch, T. V. (Tessa Violet), editor. | Cunningham, Jessica, transcriber, writer of supplementary textual content. | Campion, Rebecca, transcriber, writer of supplementary textual content. | Joyce, Edmund, writer of supplementary textual content. | Cobbe, Alec, writer of supplementary textuial content. | Adamson, John, 1949– editor, writer of supplementary textual content, indexer, book producer. | Lubikowski, Martin, cartographer. | Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of, 1937–2011, dedicatee.