Portmarnock and the Plunketts, 1850–1918

The Portmarnock Brick and Terracotta Works

Alan Costello

‘Combining impressive and varied primary sources, the author goes some way to respond to Maurice Craig’s assertion that the relationship between buildings and geology is often ignored in our history. The result is the illumination of a little known and largely unrecorded part of our architectural and social history', Michael Merrigan, Ireland's Genealogical Gazette (October 2013).

‘The Maynooth Studies in Local History have brought about a quiet revolution in Irish local studies, and have changed the larger landscape too. Working from fascinating and little-known sources, and mobilizing the resources of energetic and imaginative scholarship, an extraordinary range of subjects has been identified, illuminated, and brought into focus. These 100 publications not only explore little known local episodes and phenomena; they constitute a major contribution to the mainstream of Irish history’, R.F. Foster, historian.