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Table of Contents
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List of Plates |
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List of Tables |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Abbreviations |
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Chapter 1: Water Supplies |
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Introduction |
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Rainwater |
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Well and Spring Water |
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River Water |
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Lake Water |
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Hot Water |
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Nineteenth-Century Improvements |
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Fire Water |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 2: Heating for People and Plants |
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Introduction |
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Open Fires |
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Hot Walls, Hot Air, and Stoves |
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Hot Water Radiators |
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Walled Gardens |
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Hotbeds |
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Hothouses and Hot Walls |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 3: Summer Ice |
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Introduction |
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Design and Construction of Ice Houses and Stacks |
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Ice Houses and Their Situations |
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Storing the Ice |
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Use of Ice and the Ice House |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 4: Lighting the Big House |
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Introduction |
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Daylight |
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Candles |
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Oil Lamps |
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Gaslight |
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Electric Light |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 5: Innovation and Estate Improvement |
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Introduction |
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Ireland's First Data Transmission System |
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A Prefabricated Church Spire |
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Powered Estates |
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Woodland and Sawmills |
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Estate Railways |
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Conclusion |
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Conclusions |
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Appendices |
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A. Reference Map of Big House Technology Sites in Ireland |
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B. Edmundson's Gas Plant Specification for Adare Manor |
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C. Extracts of Amenities Installed in Some Big Houses, 1850–1905 |
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D. Extracts of Blacksmith's Tasks at Bessborough, 1834 |
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E. Extracts of Weekly Tasks at Lough Rynn, 1860–1863 |
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F. Extracts of Tasks, Goods, and Services at Lyons, 1858–1860 |
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G. Extracts of Tasks at Dromoland Castle, 1852 and 1854 |
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H. Extracts of Tullynally Castle Expenses, 1853–1862 |
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I. Extracts of Clandeboye and Mourne Park Expenses After 1866 |
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J. Extracts of Crom Castle Coal Usage, 1895, 1897, and 1905 |
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Endnotes |
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Bibliography |
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Index |