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Mortality in Magherafelt, County Derry, in the early eighteenth century reappraised

Bibliographic Data

ID9983563
AuthorsWilliam Macafee, Valerie Morgan (0000-0003-1576-6052, University of Ulster)
Year1982
Volume23
Issue89
Pages50-60
Publication date1982-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-1214 • E-ISSN: 2056-4139
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021121400009159
OpenAlexW2476736097
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The study of Irish historical demography has long been an area of complexity and controversy; and the further back into the past the search for patterns and trends is pushed, the more the problems multiply. Much of the difficulty stems from the inadequacy and/or variability of the available sources. Hearth-tax returns, enumeration lists of various types, estate records and registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, all pose problems of interpretation and in addition, for any single area, they are likely to provide only fragmentary and discontinuous evidence. $$Largely because of these difficulties, only a limited number of detailed analyses of population patterns in specific areas as far back as the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century have been attempted. Yet at the same time the work which has been done has made it apparent both that this is a crucial period in terms of demographic history and that only detailed case studies can provide the evidence necessary to enlarge upon our current very general understanding

Archaeology · Art history · Estate · Famine · Genealogy · Historical demography · Historical record · Interpretation (philosophy · Irish · Linguistics · Period (music · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Demography · History · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Irish and British Studies · Law

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