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- Title
The Use of Documentary Source Material in the Northern Ireland Survey of Industrial Archaeology .
- Authors
McCutcheon, W. A.
- Abstract
This article discusses the use of documentary source material in the survey of industrial archaeology in Northern Ireland. In 1962 the Ministry of Finance in the Government of Northern Ireland appointed a full-time research worker to carry on the task begun by E.R.R. Green, a researcher and to complete a survey of communications and the recording of a wide range of industrial sites throughout the province over a three-year period. Northern Ireland is particularly suited to such a survey, it is a clearly defined unit, yet linked in many ways with north Britain and central Scotland, particularly in the history of engineering and the textile industries; it has many early sites of considerable interest and importance, in communications, manufacturing and extractive industry; its relative stability during the troubled years of the mid nineteenth century reflects in many ways the dichotomy of interest between industry and agriculture within a limited area; finally, the remarkable growth of the city of Belfast, an expansion quite foreign to nineteenth-century Ireland, was almost entirely due to the emergence or introduction of large-scale manufacturing industry.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Ireland; INDUSTRIAL surveys; INDUSTRIAL archaeology; INDUSTRIAL research; HISTORY of industries; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1966, Vol 19, Issue 2, p401
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2592260