Habitual masonry styles and the local organisation of church building in early medieval Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorÓ Carragáin, Tomás
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-02T13:22:36Z
dc.date.available2011-11-02T13:22:36Z
dc.date.issued2005-07
dc.date.updated2011-11-02T11:59:32Z
dc.description.abstractThe results of a masonry analysis of the majority of Irish pre-Romanesque churches are presented. A number of local styles are identified in high-density areas, mostly in the west of the country and it is shown that the differences between these styles were not determined by geology. It is argued that these styles represent habitual variation and are therefore indicative of local groups of masons working over a relatively short period of time. This assessment is supported by an analysis of stone supply that suggests that quarrying was organised in an ad hoc manner to supply local needs. These churches are normally placed within a broad timeframe spanning the tenth to early-twelfth centuries but a number of factors combine to suggest that the habitual styles are a relatively late development, perhaps mainly from the mid-eleventh century onwards. Some of the implications of this proposed refinement of the existing chronology are briefly discussed.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationTomás Ó Carragáin (2005) 'Habitual masonry styles and the local organisation of church building in early medieval Ireland'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 105C (3):99-149.en
dc.identifier.doi10.3318/PRIC.2005.105.1.99
dc.identifier.endpage149en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8991
dc.identifier.issn2009-0048
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleProceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section Cen
dc.identifier.startpage99en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/448
dc.identifier.volume105Cen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoyal Irish Academyen
dc.rights© Royal Irish Academyen
dc.subjectMasonry analysisen
dc.subjectMasonry stylesen
dc.subjectCyclopean masonryen
dc.subjectStone supplyen
dc.subjectNave-and-chancel churchen
dc.subjectMortared churchen
dc.subjectBarrel-vaulted churchen
dc.subjectDrystone churchen
dc.subjectTomb-shrinesen
dc.subject.lcshChurch architecture--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture, Medieval--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshMasonry--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshBuilding stones--Irelanden
dc.titleHabitual masonry styles and the local organisation of church building in early medieval Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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