Last nights homework:

Patterns of Distribution in towns.

Key Ideas

Towns and other nucleated settlements are distributed throughout the country in

different patterns. There are many reasons for this.

Can you think of some???

Today we are going to look at the historical and social factors of the distribution of towns.

Historic factors:

Vikings towns:

Great sea traders

Settled along the east and south coasts of Ireland

Many of these early settlements developed into towns

They now form a linear pattern along or near the coast

Ireland's chief

Viking towns

Questions on Page 222

Historic factors:

Norman towns:

In the East and South

On fertile land

Near rivers

Defensive sites

Norman Towns

Social factors

The primacy of Dublin:

Dublin is Ireland's primate city. (Does anyone know what this means?)

Dominates political and economic life.

Dublin has affected the distribution of settlement in 2 ways:

Some towns have developed in a cluster (nucleated pattern) around Dublin

Some towns developed on the roads to Dublin in a ____________ pattern. (Can someone fill in the type?)