Abstract
Prior to the plantations in the late sixteenth, century, internal trade in Ireland was linked to a mainly pastoral economy subject to low levels of external and internal demand. This situation was radically and decisively transformed by the efforts of the colonial authorities who stimulated the development of a market economy by licensing a large number of market sites. By mapping the proliferation of legal and clandestine trading centres for fifty-year periods, it is possible to depict the configurations of a series of postulated modernization surfaces and relate these to the growth and intensification of specialist agricultural regions and trading centres. On this basis, some of the processes which contributed to the making of these postulated surfaces may be identified.
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