Entrée principale:

Lyttleton, James.

Titre et auteur:

Blarney Castle : an Irish tower house / James Lyttleton.

Publication:

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2011.

Description:

xv, 157 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (1 color), maps (1 color), plans (1 color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Foreword by Conleth Manning.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
The MacCarthys, lords of Muskerry : their historical pedigree -- Irish tower houses in context -- The layout and use of Blarney Castle -- The "transition" from castle to country house at Blarney -- The chronology of Blarney Castle's development.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles. This book brings the castle's architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lordship in late medieval Munster.

ISBN:

9781846822742 (hbk.)
1846822742 (hbk.)
9781846823145 (pbk.)
1846823145 (pbk.)

Sujet:

McCarthy family.
Blarney Castle (Blarney, Ireland)
Tower houses Ireland Cork (County) History.
Architecture, Domestic Ireland Cork (County) History.
Nobility Ireland Cork (County) History.
Maisons-tours Irlande Cork (Comté) Histoire.
Antiquities.
Architecture, Domestic.
Buildings.
Nobility.
Tower houses.
Adelshaus
Architektur
Tower houses Ireland Blarney.
Blarney (Ireland) Buildings, structures, etc.
Blarney (Ireland) Antiquities.
Ireland Blarney.
Ireland Cork (County)
Blarney Castle

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Manning, Conleth

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 276901
Cote: BIB 211463
Notes: hbk
Statut: Disponible