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20: 91: 61:") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord. The property ("burgage tenement") usually, and distinctly, consisted of a house on a long and narrow plot of land ( 69:), with a narrow street frontage. Rental payment ("tenure") was usually in the form of money, but each "burgage tenure" arrangement was unique and could include services. 72:
As populations grew "burgage plots" could be split into smaller additional units. (Amalgamation was not so common until the second half of the 19th century.)
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Rothe House & Garden, a historic house in Kilkenny is the only example of an early 17th century merchant's townhouse in Ireland.
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received its royal charter in 1418, English settlers were encouraged into the town and were given burgage plots at a rent of one
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Burgage tenures were usually money-based, in contrast to rural tenures, which were usually services-based. In
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and modern surroundings illustrating its burgage plot, with buildings in grey and garden in green
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T.R. Slater, The Analysis of Burgage Patterns in Medieval Towns, Area, Vol. 13, no. 3, 1981
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Burgage grants were also common in Ireland; for example, when the town of
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T. R. Slater, The Analysis of Burgage Patterns in Medieval Towns
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The Local Historian's Encyclopedia by John Richardson -
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is an exceptionally well-preserved medieval burgage.
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Edinburgh
Royal Mile
medieval land term
Great Britain
Ireland
borough
burgh
Scots
Saxon times

Rothe House
Wexford
shilling
Irish
Borris
Rothe House
Kilkenny
History of English land law
Land tenure
Grid plan
Feudalism
"Wexford Info - Irish Walled Towns Network"
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"Welcome To Rothe House Kilkenny"
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Medieval English Towns - Glossary
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