The first volume of the revised Hogan's Onomasticon has now been published by the Irish Texts Society as: Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclir...
TOM SMITH
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May 5, 2003 10:10 pm
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I am having a heck of a time locating the Irish Texts Society. Can someone give me a pointer as to where I might go to request a copy of this book. It does...
Easiest thing to do is write directly to: M.J. Burns, Hon. Treasurer, Irish Texts Society, Elsemere, Tibraddeb Road, Rockbrook, Dublin 16. ... ...
TOM SMITH
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May 7, 2003 9:11 am
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Irish Texts Soc C/o Royal Bank of Scotland, Drummonds Branch 49 Charing Cross Admiralty Arch London SW 1A 2DX On 6 May 2003 at 9:26, Shane Anderson wrote: ...
Northern Ireland Plac...
townlands@...
May 7, 2003 11:54 am
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Does anyone have any thoughts on the etymology of the Sabrann river (an old name for the Lee river in county Cork)? I expect that it is definitely related to...
Hi, Can anyone help me? I understand that the Irish name for Moville - Bun an Phobail - is generally
translated into English as "the foot, or end, of the...
I just realized that not everyone's browser will automatically detect unicode. If you don't see the special characters that I put in my message (for instance,...
In a message dated 6/2/03 8:38:12 AM GMT Daylight Time, dubnovalos@... ... Sabrann is generally considered cognate with Severn (W. _Hafren_, but Historia...
Henry Gough Cooper wrote: Sabrann is generally considered cognate with Severn (W. _Hafren_, but Historia Brittonum _Habren_), also an obsolete stream name in...
Sorry, for some reasons my e's with a macron over them don't seem to come out, even when I try Unicode Hex input. Perhaps the font that is used online doesn't...
dubnovalos writes: << (I'm just testing which Unicode characters come out in this paragraph, so ignore it.) eÌ… Ì…Ä"eÌ„eÌ„ ĕĕ >> Somehow...
donndevine@...
Jun 9, 2003 10:12 pm
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(A contributor on another list has asked me to post this). Jean Kelly ... That what they are saying is the ancient name of a little place called Dunganville in...
In this the greatest book of all time, I am searching for the locations of several places not now on my map. And I've got one of the good ones. These places...
Ennistymon There is a book you might find of interest. "Oceans of Consolation" which is a book of letters of immigrants to Australia to their families back in...
In the ROI PN Office's book on Co. Limerick names (Logainmneacha na hireann I, ed Art Maolfabhail 1990) historical Anglicised spellings from 1298 - 1840...
Northern Ireland Plac...
townlands@...
Jul 2, 2003 12:43 pm
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Ken: O'Grady's (O'Grada per John O'Donovan) "strong place" in Clare would probably be in the civil p. of Tomgraney (aka Tuamgraney) b. of Tulla Upper. Per The...
This is probably a rather boneheaded question, but... are there any documented cases of an important place lending part of its name or influencing the naming...
Ben writes, ... in Ireland today? << ... Fir. 43, Hz. 154; “T.C.D. MS., H. 2, 17, states (p. 91 b) that Gann and Sengann landed at Árd na Caerach on Inbher...
PeteScherm@...
Jul 11, 2003 12:21 am
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Shane wrote "May we look to a borrowing from Clones or is this just based on a geography which dictates that it should be common, and this geography just...
TOM SMITH
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Jul 11, 2003 8:15 am
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Ignoring my "fear" of sounding whacky, if it is true that the families had namers, I would think that each family tended to assign favorite words for certain...
Janet Crawford
reojan@...
Jul 11, 2003 1:20 pm
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Tom, ... Cluain=meadow, which is a very common term in Irish ... A little "out-of-the-box" speculation here. I am informed recently by a source that Clon-...
Shane wrote "Now, based on the origin story of the Fir Manach, is it possible that the potential population event we see that would require felling forest ...
TOM SMITH
MOGUEMOGUE@...
Jul 15, 2003 9:42 am
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... the placenames were first assigned. If they were first >> named cluain in the 6th century then the theory holds. I agree 100 per cent. This is a hard row...
Hi Shane, Would this question be affected at all by the actual term "forest"? According to Oliver Rackham, it's not necessarily "woodland", but can mean "area...
Tom, ... assigned. I do not know why I am pressing my luck on this, since if ever I do anything with it, it is likely to be in my next lifetime, after ...
Dia Duit, I was wondering if anyone could make out exactly where these places are? I have been trying to piece this together on some internet searches but I...
Shane wrote "Q: Is there any work in particular that you (or this list) are aware of that speaks to assigning dates to name elements?" (1)Here is a quote fom...
TOM SMITH
MOGUEMOGUE@...
Jul 16, 2003 10:11 am
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Ben wrote "I was wondering if anyone could make out exactly where these places are? I have been trying to piece this together on some internet searches but I...
TOM SMITH
MOGUEMOGUE@...
Jul 16, 2003 10:28 am
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Tom, ... early ... Clon or ... Thanks very much. I would love to read Flanagan's material on this. This is interesting because on the face of it we have kind...
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