Cultural landscapes of late medieval Gaelic Ulster

The result was the identification of fossilised, rural late medieval landscapes, in the drumlin dominated areas of east Tyrone and south Armagh. Habitation focused on the use of the drumlin as the nodal point in the landscape, from which landscape management radiated. The methodology utilised in this research has the potential to reveal medieval and late medieval landscapes over large areas.

Patterns of habitation proposed here suggest the potential re- and continued use of ringforts and circular enclosures. Some such examples are still occupied today, as farms, and many appear to have become embedded in field systems that have been evolving exponentially since the nineteenth century. Further analysis of the townlands demonstrates that many were demarcated by the riverine system, and their origins may stretch back to the Early Christian period. <br><br><br>