FitzPatrick (Elizabeth)

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14092.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): The early Church in Offaly.
In Offaly history and society (1998), pp. 93–130.
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FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): The inauguration of Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair at Áth an Termoinn.
In Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 351–358.
Identifies Áth an Termoinn with Áth Carpait, in the termonland of Es mac nEirc, at Boyle (Co. Roscommon).
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Duffy (Patrick J.) (ed.), Edwards (David) (ed.), FitzPatrick (Elizabeth) (ed.): Gaelic Ireland, c. 1250–c. 1650: land, lordship and settlement / Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards and Elizabeth FitzPatrick, editors.
Dublin: Four Courts, 2001. 454 pp.
Papers from a conference held in Dublin, September 1997.

Rev. by
Bernadette Cunningham, in History Ireland 9/2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 51-52.
Margo Griffin-Wilson, in Celtica 25 (2007), pp. 262-270.
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20112.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Royal inauguration assembly and the church in medieval Ireland.
In Political assemblies in the earlier Middle Ages (2003), pp. 73–93.
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18526.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Leaca and Gaelic inauguration ritual in medieval Ireland.
In The Stone of Destiny (2003), pp. 107–121.
Examines documentary evidence from Ireland (Ulster in particular) on the importance of recumbent stones and stone chairs for the enthronement ritual.
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15063.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Royal inauguration mounds in medieval Ireland: antique landscape and tradition.
In Assembly places and practices in medieval Europe (2004), pp. 44–72.
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16264.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Royal inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c. 1100–1600: a cultural landscape study.
SCH, 22. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004. xx + 294 pp. (Studies in Celtic history, 22).
Rev. by
Robin Frame, in EHR 122/495 (Feb., 2007), pp. 159-161.
Bart Jaski, in Speculum 81/3 (Jul., 2006), pp. 844-845.
Thomas McNeill, in The American historical review 110/5 (Dec., 2005), pp. 1579-1580.
Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin, in Ríocht na Midhe 17 (2006), pp. 325-327.
Andrew Reynolds, in Medieval archaeology 51/1 (2007), p. 393-394.
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FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): The landscape of Máel Sechnaill’s rígdál at Ráith Áeda, AD 859.
In Above and beyond [Swan memorial essays] (2005), pp. 267–280.
Suggests the site of the royal meeting was Cnoc Buadha (Knockbo in the parish of Rahugh, Co. Westmeath).
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15093.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth) (ed.), Gillespie (Raymond) (ed.): The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building / Elizabeth FitzPatrick and Raymond Gillespie, editors.
Dublin: Four Courts Press for the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 2006. 352 pp.
Papers from a conference held in Dublin, 28 February–2 March 2003.

Rev. by
James Kelly, in StH 34 (2006-2007), pp. 207-209.
Michael O’Neill, in JRSAI 136 (2006), pp. 192-196.
Katharine Simms, in CMCS 55 (Summer, 2008), pp. 67-68.
Barbara A. Watkinson, in Speculum 82/2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 433-435.
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FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Evoking the white mare: the cult landscape of Sgiath Gabhra and its medieval perception in Gaelic Fir Mhanach.
In Landscapes of cult and kingship (2011), pp. 163–191.
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15152.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Formaoil na Fiann: hunting preserves and assembly places in Gaelic Ireland.
In PHCC 32 (2013), pp. 95–118.
Offers a detailed study of formaoil place-names in Ireland.
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12974.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): The landscape and settlements of the Uí Dhálaigh poets of Muinter Bháire.
In Princes, prelates and poets in Medieval Ireland [K. Simms essays] (2013), pp. 460–480.
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14023.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Ollamh, biatach, comharba: lifeways of Gaelic learned families in medieval early modern Ireland.
In 14th ICCS, Maynooth 2011 (2015), pp. 165–189.
Discusses the physical environments in which learned families lived, farmed and conducted schools.
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18375.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth), Hennessy (Ronan): Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland.
In LH 38/2 (2017), pp. 29–62.
Investigates hilltop cairns and mounds named Suidhe Finn which were used as boundary landmarks. Includes a case study of the landscape of the hill of Almhain and its summit mound of Suidhe Finn in North Leinster.
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21902.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Rethinking settlement values in Gaelic society: the case of the cathedral centres.
In PRIA-C 119 (2019), pp. 69–102.
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FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Finn’s wilderness and boundary landforms in medieval Ireland.
In Landscape and myth in North-Western Europe (2019), pp. 113–146.
Studies the term formaoil used in place-names in Ireland and Scotland (variously anglicized as Fermoyle, Formoyle, Formil, Formal, etc.), and argues it was applied to particular bare-topped hills and mountains connected to the idea of wilderness, boundaries and conflict, and in fíanaigecht also conceived as hunting reserve and place of contact with the Otherworld for Finn and his fían.
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21097.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): A learned identity: monuments to Thomas Coffy, at Lynally, Co. Offaly.
In The historian as detective [Gillespie essays] (2021), pp. 141–143.
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21879.
FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Hunting places in the Finn Cycle and their association with borderlands of medieval Gaelic territories.
In Gaelic Finn tradition II (2022), pp. 39–54.
Using Fiodh Gaibhle in Co. Offaly and Sliabh na mBan in Co. Tipperary as case studies argues that the hunting grounds mentioned in Acallam na senórach and other narratives are based on real border zones between Gaelic territories where hunting was conducted. In Appendix: Places in Ireland, Wales and Scotland associated with hunting in AS.
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FitzPatrick (Elizabeth): Gaelic political assemblies and power-display in borderlands of Westmeath lordships.
In Westmeath history and society (2022), pp. 57–79.
Examines the inauguration and assembly sites of the Mac Amhalghaigh chief of Calraighe (Cnoc Dubhmuine) and the Mac Eochagáin chief of Cineál bhFiachach (Cnoc Buadha, Suidhe Adhamhnáin).
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