@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000483, author = {清水, 由文 and SHIMIZU, Yoshifumi}, issue = {2}, journal = {桃山学院大学社会学論集, St. Andrew's University sociological review}, month = {Mar}, note = {The present paper sets out to clarify the characteristics of the Irish family in Co. Meath from the perspective of comparison with Co. Clare that C. Arensberg and T. Kimball had researched at1930s. My hypothesis that a simple family households based on the partible inheritance system that was dominant in the early19th Century, but after the Great Famine this shifted to extended family households or multifamily households based on the integrated matchmaking system with a dowry and the impartible inheritance by Land Law Act (1852). When I compare the household structure of Co. Meath and Co. Clare, I can conclude the norm of stem family is weaker than that of Co. Clare and the household structure of Co. Meath was influenced with the element of the family situation and the proportion of extended family households or multifamily households in Co. Meath that were fewer than that of Co. Clare. To verity this hypothesis, I used the 1901 and 1911 Census Returns and I have arrived at the following results. First, I found the mean of size of household was 4.4 members in 1901 and 4.3 in 1911 and this number is smaller than those in Co. Clare (5.2 and 5.0). It seems that was partly the small number of children born due to influenced by the late marriage and the practice of celibacy. Second I believe the dominant household type of Co. Meath in the early20th century was the simple family households. However there were only 14% of extended family households and multifamily households, but was also the large number individuals living in no family households (23.8% in 1901 and 17.6% in 1911). This indicates there were many people who did not many. Third looking at a detailed tabulation of kinship groups in 100 households, the household had a total 47〜49 relatives inside households and it is a characteristics of the high percentage of siblings (21 persons). This can be accounted for by the practice of late marriage and celibacy. Fourth I selected a townland, Bective as a case study and note the movement of the type of family between 1901 and 1911. As the result, I could confirm the family heads not only actually controled, but tended to delay the appointment of heir and transfer of headship and estate to appointed heirs. This forced sons to wait for the physical decline or demise of their father, resulting in the prevalence of late marriages and celibacies. I have mostly verified the above hypothesis using some several data, but I can find the norm of stem family in Co. Meath is weaker than Co. Clare.}, pages = {1--38}, title = {20世紀初頭におけるアイルランド・ミーズ州の世帯構造}, volume = {45}, year = {2012}, yomi = {シミズ, ヨシフミ} }