Recording unofficial placenames in my local area

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dc.contributor.authorÓ Dochartaigh, Caitríonaen
dc.contributor.authorMac Cathmhaoil, Nioclásen
dc.contributor.funderHigher Education Authorityen
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-04T08:35:47Z
dc.date.available2025-07-04T08:35:47Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractAn overlooked area of placename research is unofficial, minor, local names. These can be alternative names for official names, historical sites, laneways, crossroads, the names of individual fields, or landscape features etc. Unfortunately, knowledge of these names is quickly being forgotten. You would do a great service to your area if you were able to record some of them before they are lost forever. Sometimes accompanying these names is a rich an ancient ‘placename-lore’, or dinnsheanchas, detailing aetiological accounts of how the names came into being: whether as the haunts of ghosts and other supernatural beings, like the Bean Sí (Banshee) or Cailleach Bhéarra (Old Hag of Beare); or as areas once frequented by Irish heroes, like Cú Chulainn, Fionn, Diarmuid and Gráinne. Some other places are linked with tales of local disputes, murder, treachery, love and tragedy. You never know what names and stories you might encounter.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHigher Education Authority (North–South Research Programme - Shared Island Fund)en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationÓ Dochartaigh, C. and Mac Cathmhaoil, N. (2025) 'Recording unofficial placenames in my local area', Ultonia Project.en
dc.identifier.endpage8en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17677
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUltonia Projecten
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. Produced as part of the Ultonia Project with funds from the Government of Ireland through the North–South Research Programme - Shared Island Fund.en
dc.subjectPlacename researchen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectAlternative namesen
dc.subjectLocal Placename Record Formen
dc.subjectLocal placenamesen
dc.subjectMeitheal Projecten
dc.subjectLogainm.ieen
dc.titleRecording unofficial placenames in my local areaen
dc.typeOtheren
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