Interesting Maps

Capt'n Midnight

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Capt'n Midnight

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magicbastarder

https://www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/boundaries/townlands/index.html

townlands of dublin. i had to click the 'all townlands' option at top right to display them.

some great ones there i'd not heard of before, such as 'Pluckhimin' just northwest of Garristown.

apparently there's a Lovescharity there somewhere too. also some interesting ones like Clonmethan, beside Oldtown, which features exclaves.

L1011

I've just gone past Slutsend on the train. Probably has the be the worst townland name in the county.

magicbastarder

there are quite a few which are split into two or three or more separate sections, actually. several around Lusk - Lusk itself, Corduff, Regles and Rallekaystown on a quick glance.

Pherekydes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358375#Comment_123358375

Stormanstown! Never heard of it before today! I was born there! We always used

[Street name]

Santry

Dublin 9

as our address.

Now, we live in Esker South, but never use that in our address either.

Do others use townland names in their addresses? 🤔

magicbastarder

I live beside Stormanstown, in what must be the record for the shortest townland name in the country I suspect - Wad.

I know plenty of people who use townland names in their addresses. We don't use Wad though!

Peregrinus

Addresses based on townland names are the norm in rural areas, but not so much in cities or suburbs.

minggatu

Number of Metropolitan Regions In Europe With Over 5 Million People By Country

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Busman Paddy Lasty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123358745#Comment_123358745

Stormanstown does have Stormanstown Rd in all fairness and I'm guessing Wad has Wadelei estate in there. I'm from Slutsend btw so its not a contest! Did see on YT that Slut means End in Norse so that kind of translation and keeping the old word is apparently common. (Theory, it could have have been a sluts hangout).

JupiterKid

Railways in Florida, 1890

JupiterKid

Regional dialects of Italian in Italy, 2014

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123359825#Comment_123359825

Stormanstown road is not actually in Stormanstown - it's in Ballygall.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123359943#Comment_123359943

more pixels from https://www.sardegnainblog.it/6482/cartina-linguistica-sardegna/

Here's a different opinion.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123360486#Comment_123360486

There are thousands upon thousands of local dialects - even contiguous villages can have different words for the same thing, or use a slightly different pronunciation, or the same thing has the same consonants but different vowels, or some of the letters are dropped (e.g. the word melon could become melan or meelún or something), but people can still understand each other. Then there are dialects that are so removed from Italian that look like what Irish sounds to English speakers).

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123360337#Comment_123360337

That would be fairly typical of road names. "X Road", where "X" is a placename, is generally a road that goes to X, not a roade that is in X.

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123361254#Comment_123361254

That, or there is some arbitary connction.

Things named after Sillog(u)e around Ballymun.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123361254#Comment_123361254

Yep, I was just commenting on a post which seemed to suggest the road was in the townland.

magicbastarder

another odd one - just south of Balrothery is a townland called 'Dennis' Fields', and it's literally just a couple of uninhabited small fields. i wonder how it ended up as a townland?

Peregrinus

Townlands are very old territorial divisions — older than diosese, parishes, baronies, counties and provinces. The result is that we don't really know how most of them came to be formed. It's thought that in most cases the townlands represented areas having a certain pastoral economic value, so where land is rich and fertile townlands tend to be smaller and where is is poor they tend to be larger.

But very small townlands are anomalous, and likely to result from exceptions to this rule. There are townlands of less than an acre and, while the origin of none of them is recorded, a reasonable speculation is that they might have been created by way of a compromise, to solve a dispute between neighbouring communities over entitlement to or rights in a larger townland.

magicbastarder

not much info on logainm on that one. dates back to at least 1836 by the looks of it.

https://www.logainm.ie/en/16710

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123361589#Comment_123361589

It looks almost like subdivided land.
Below, I have shaded Dennis' Fields in orange.
The portion of field immediately west of Dennis' Fields which I've shaded green, is part of Darcystown. The rest of those fields (shaded blue) is part of Courtlough…

Another separated townland is Inch and Part of Inch a few fields west of the above.

Mullinabreena

Irish language 1771-81

Mullinabreena

Dialects map

Mullinabreena

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123361891#Comment_123361891

Lest than 100 years later just after the famine 1861-71

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123361860#Comment_123361860

a (very) minor irritation for me is that i can't claim to have cycled in every townland in dublin north of the liffey, which i probably would have assumed i had done until i realised how small they can be.

magicbastarder

just to expand on that - several years ago, i decided to see if i could cycle every single non-urban road in dublin, north of the liffey. bar a single road, i achieved that a few years ago (though there may be more i am not aware of). this is my heatmap from strava.

minggatu

How Many Operating Suspension Railways Does Your Country Have?

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cj maxx

States with the death penalty

Green repealed

Blue in statute but formally suspended

Yellow in statute but none in 10 years

Red in statute and carried out in last 10 years

GerardKeating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123363045#Comment_123363045

The Schwebebahn in Wuppertal is cool, rode it a decade or two back.