Offaly Through Time and Its Townlands – Thomas Lee
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Offaly Through Time and Its Townlands – Thomas Lee
This book starts at the geological beginning of Offaly and briefly goes through the formation of its
landscape and the impact on it by its first people in the mists of the past and down through the Stone,
Bronze and Iron ages, through to the Celtic period. This is followed by a look at Offaly’s great
Monastic age and also in a later time, how the Anglo Normans left their mark. The book also
describes how the County took its final shape, as we know it, which occurred through the transfer of
ancient tribal territories as part of the process of confiscation. Part two of the book examines each of
the townlands in Offaly, 1136 in all, explaining the origin of each townland name, and listing and
describing the ancient monuments which exist in almost every townland, monuments that were built
by the hands of Offaly ancestors
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Weight | .45 kg |
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Dimensions | 21 × 14.7 × 2.3 cm |
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Hard Or Paper Back |