Cromwell's one mile strip

[matthewmacnamara]

Would anyone know which areas of Clare were included in Cromwell's one mile strip?

[Polycarp]

There is information on this in John Prendergast's book "The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland of Ireland" at pages 101 and 149. That might be a good place to look.

Polycarp

[sadhbh]

Prendergast's book is online here http://www.archive.org/stream/cromwelli ... 9/mode/2up

sadhbh

[matthewmacnamara]

Many thanks Polycarp and Sadhbh

Local collective memory was of a Cromwellian settlement of the area.
This would be compatible with the establishment of the one mile strip as a security zone.
In the twentieth century the term cordon sanitaire came to be applied to such territorial arrangements.

[matthewmacnamara]

For Polycarp and Sadhbh

A correction:
My reference to local collective memory in my reply was in respect of Meelick.
Its high ground covered Limerick on the north side.