Hello, I saw your posts about Ardgowny placename derivation for PaddySwan. This is a stretch, but here goes... The "gowny" component reminds me of the Irish...
Scottish Place-Name Society Comann Ainmean-Aite na h-Alba Day conference and AGM – Saturday 9th May 2009 New Galloway CatStrand Programme: 1030–1100  ...
Hi folks, Can anybody help me in locating a passage from the writings of John O'Donovan? I've come across an article by John Dunne called 'The Fenian...
... first footnote on page 358 The Tribes and Territories of Ancient Ossory; Comprising the Portions of O'Heerin's and O'Dugan's Topographical Poems which...
Hi Paul, I found your mail very interesting. This may be a long shot, but when I read Dunne's article, I noticed that on p. 339 mention is made of a letter...
Paul, I have these notes on Sliabh Dile: See Slievedeely (also Slewdale) At one time this name may have been the name of the mountain now called Slievenamon....
Thanks very much, Tony, for this suggestion. I've had a chance to check the journal again this morning, and, whilst there is no definitive proof, I think your...
If anyone is interested, the journal Decies and many other publications including O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey Letters relating to Waterford (with many...
Hi A question, please, on Clonmacnoise - and the Slà Mór. The Eiscir Riada is clearly a route from the east coast to Clonmacnoise - the esker crosses the...
Eoin, The index to the Annals of the Four Masters has 'Sighe-Mór, an ancient road extending from Dublin to Clarinbridge, in the county of Galway'. Under the ...
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Hi folks, You may be interested in a new forum which by Simon Stewart has kindly set up for members of the Mountain Views website. It is on the rather...
Poor Tibberaghny, it has been shoveled between Co. Tipperary and Co. Kilkenny over the centuries. From various sources it has been written as Tybroughney or...
Accordint to Logainm.ie it is Tiobra Fhachna as for Leghetagkairaghe I can't find anything for it in the database or via a google search. Are you sure that you...
Muris, I have it right, but it is out of the abominable Inquisitions and the Brits of that time were not known for their spelling feats or even hearing Irish...
Here is the statement from the Inquisitions: "On 1 April 1536, James granted to John Ocuyron of Clonmel, merchant, an island called Ilean Tybraghevyne & an...
-kairaghe looks very like caorach 'of sheep', Leg- 'hollow' at the beginning, not sure about th e middle of this name. Or Leacht na gCaorach, 'grave- monument...
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Hi Janet, As Magh Feimhinn and Cnoc Feimhinn (= Sliabh na mBan) are not far away, Tybraghevyne suggests *Tiobra Fheimhinn to me, or possibly *Tiobra Fhach[t]na...
... Hi Tom, That is an interesting find, but somehow I am not willing to buy into it just yet. For some reason it just appears that Burke tried to anglicize...
My tuppence worth........... and I am afraid it is in the category described by Janet as making 'a stab' at the name. As well as looking at Log = a hollow,...
... Ah, now maybe there's a trail....I went into my Fir Bolg tribe names, because they were sort of headquartered at the mouth of the Suir, and there is a...
Hello Janet, It seems to me that Tom's suggestion has a lot going for it. The footnote that he refers to in is the text of a land grant to Sir James Gough...
... This is terrific information, Tony. Let me take a second to thank everyone who has provided some insight so far, but I hope people keep looking, too. I am...
I think we have some possible additional back-up for the Currig. In a Clonmel Inquisition c. 1596 is a valuation of the spiritual promotions and dignities in...
... On top of all that, I have found an exact location for Leghetagkairaghe. The Civil Survey 1654-56 for Tipperary has the following on p.307 under...
Perfect, Tony. If it is the lake OF..., there must perhaps have been a townland there also. I'll see what I can do with the other townland names a little...
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