Reading through "Above and Beyond......Essays in memory of Leo Swan", Edited by Tom Condit and Christiaan Corlett, Wordwell 2005, ISBN 1869857860 - I came ...
PeteScherm@...
Aug 2, 2006 12:46 pm
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What do you think of the idea that the Wexford Parish and townland called Ferns originating from 'Fernigenan '? Follow the discussion here ...
Tom, My only derivation of the name, other than the standard "alder" one, is from John O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters of 1840: "Ferns is always called...
PeteScherm@...
Aug 12, 2006 5:25 pm
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Good man Pete. I knew you would not be a far away. If you have another look at the forum you will see that I have clarified my question. Regards. Tom....
Placenames (Co. Tipperary) Order 2005 translates 'Rockvale' as Gleann na Carraige. However, the Rockvale that I am familiar with is the peak of one of the...
Ed O Riordan
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Aug 13, 2006 4:58 pm
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Ed, I haven't gotten around to checking the Placenames Order, but it appears that the only townland of Rockvale in Co. Tipp (N or S) is a small suburb of ...
PeteScherm@...
Aug 13, 2006 5:12 pm
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... the only townland of Rockvale in Co. Tipp (N or S) is a small suburb of Newport - quite a distance from the Galtees. Could this be the Rockvale that is ...
Ed O Riordan
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Aug 13, 2006 8:28 pm
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... PS to Pete. I am not sure which Rockvale the 2005 order refers to. Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Ed O Riordan
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Aug 14, 2006 11:26 am
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A person on a Kilkenny Rootsweb list asked about the location of the Welsh Mountains, in Co. Kilkenny. Google led me to the following quote, from a history of...
PeteScherm@...
Aug 14, 2006 5:22 pm
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Dear Pete, The Walsh Mountains (not marked on Discovery series) is a plateau in South Kilkenny extending east from Slievenamon. Their highest point is ...
I can give you a guess, Paul, although it may be far out. Sliabh Dile is also pronounced as "Slewdale", so I suspect the ending may be corrupted. My guess is...
I have seen Díle translated to flood and also prone to flooding. Regards. Tom ... become obsolete ... for Sliab ... Logainmneacha ... very similar ... ...
Paul, Thanks very much for the info on the Walsh Mountains. I had a bit of trouble with the map coordinates, though. I read Carricktriss Gorse at S 484 294. ...
PeteScherm@...
Aug 15, 2006 12:28 pm
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Thanks Janet and Tom for these useful suggestions. Janet, is Slewdale a version of the name still in current use or is it based on a historical form? Regards ...
Hello folks, I hope that the moderator will look benignly on this potentially off-topic suggestion as a bit of summer (?) madness. Seeing as members of this...
HI given the excellent Ó Lyon go Dún Lúiche: Logainmneacha san Oidhreacht Cheilteach by Art Ó Maolfabhail (Clódhanna Teoranta 2005), it's less of a ...
True, Eoin, but I think you will be able to find connections much further afield than the Celtic names which Art deals with. Paul ... -- Paul Tempan Research...
... This is just the sort of utterly pointless carry-on we can expect from this group??? Excellent! I'm up for the challenge. Might put everyone else on...
... status to ... ...*chuckling*.... thats so funny.... but wrong! ....laughing... ~Síabhra what a great challenge Paul... its a wee bit out of my league... i...
Jeez! All I said was 'could Rockvale = Radharc Bhéal?" and everyone is leaving Ireland on an Indo-European expedition.! ~Ed :o) ... From: "Paul Tempan"...
Ed O Riordan
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Aug 17, 2006 10:29 pm
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Due to the impact of holdays on contributors' ability to deliver final copies for August, the release of issue 4 of Insight has been held over by one month ...
Hello folks, Glad that some of you are at least curious about this minority (extreme?)sport. Please don't stand on the sidelines though. Give it a lash! I do...
OK, I can see that a few tips may be needed to get the ball rolling! Here are some elements which you may find quite productive: tír garraí (think of...
Not at all, Stiof! As long as one element is cognate and they are original names (not duplicates of names already existing in Spain/Portugal). Do I sense that...
Greetings from Kilkenny Sorry for coming so late to this, but I thought it might be helpful on the question of the extent of Walsh Mountain(s). In the...
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