Irish placenames database

Victor

Irish placenames database http://www.logainm.ie/Do.aspx?parentID=881&typeID=BF

Tannylan

Thanks Victor I have been on the look-out for a site like that for a while

Alun

I've seen that one before ... the site that very helpfully (not!) arranges the drop-down list of counties in alphabetic order of their Irish names, even when you select English as the language to use Far from complete too .. only 17 mountain names in all of Wicklow? I think not.

Fiontar

Alun wrote: »

I've seen that one before ... the site that very helpfully (not!) arranges the drop-down list of counties in alphabetic order of their Irish names, even when you select English as the language to use Far from complete too .. only 17 mountain names in all of Wicklow? I think not.

We've now fixed that bug with the alphabetic order of the drop-down list of Counties.

As for "far from complete", that's the job of the Placenames Branch rather than Fiontar. Unfortunately there are a lot of placenames for them to research and only a small team to do it.

100,000+ isn't a bad start though, is it?

Any other feedback or suggestions are welcome!

Fiontar


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Fiontar, DCU
Irish-Medium Teaching & Research Unit
Focal.ie - National Database of Irish Terminology
Logainm.ie - Placenames Database of Ireland
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Victor

I noticed that the site uses "Seabury" for both the English and Irish for the Seabury area of Malahide, but Dublin Bus use "Muiríoch".

I suspect the origin is a purely commercial derivative of the neighbouring "Seatown" townland between it and Swords.