Rectangular chamber-towers and their medieval halls: a recent look at the buildings formerly described as "hall-houses".

Dempsey, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9025-3535 2016. Rectangular chamber-towers and their medieval halls: a recent look at the buildings formerly described as "hall-houses". Château Gaillard 27 , pp. 113-119.

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Abstract

The interpretation of the 13th-century castles formerly described as "hall-houses" has recently been a contentious topic in Irish (and Scottish) castle-studies. Many Irish scholars labelled these 13th-century masonry structures as halls but also suggested that they were also used as residences; which of course, is a contradiction in terms. This paper demonstrates that the revised understandings of Norman domestic planning in France and Britain are thoroughly applicable to those buildings mistakenly described as "hall-houses" in Ireland and reinforces the argument that they were parts of complexes of buildings with detached halls. Accepting that the "hall-house" model was incorrect and that the buildings visible today were chambers, the residences of lords, allows us to move onwards and develop new more nuanced understandings.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Presses Universitaires de Caen
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2022 09:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152944

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