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Public & private improvements in eighteenth-century Ireland : the case of the Conynghams of Slane, 1703-1821
Hurley, Livia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2009)The origins of the concept of improvement lie in the mid-seventeenth century and can be defined as the creation of a new landscape within which new estate villages were laid out, old settlements were restructured and ...