First full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Introduction
Seasonal movement and settlement in a world of pastoralism
Imagining movement: past and present views of transhumance in Ireland
Seasonal sites in context: summer pastures of the Carna peninsula
Connected places: home and booley in Gleann Cholm Cille over time
Altitude and adaptation: evolving seasonal settlement in the Galtee Mountains
Herders and historical forces, 1600-1900
Conclusion

Dr EUGENE COSTELLO is Lecturer in Environmental History at the Radical Humanities Laboratory in University College Cork, Ireland.