Irish Place Names

Deirdre Flanagan, Laurence Flanagan (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2002
Gill & Macmillan Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7171-3396-3 (ISBN)

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This complete guide to Irish place names, explains the origin and derivation of over 3,000 cities, towns, villages and physical features.

This is the most complete guide to Irish place-names published in modern times. It explains the origin and derivation of the names of over 3,000 cities, towns, villages and physical features.

The book is in two parts. The first is a list of root or stem words that form the basis of the most common Irish place-names. The second, related to this list, is an exhaustive gazetteer of all 3,000 locations with accompanying explanations.

Other books by Laurence Flanagan Ancient Ireland Favourite Irish Names for Children: top 200 Irish Proverbs

The late Laurence Flanagan was a freelance writer and a former Keeper of Antiquities at The Ulster Museum. He is an author of Favourite Irish Names for Children, Favourite Irish Names for Your Baby and Irish Place Names.

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. List of Maps; 4. Dictionary; 5. List of Names and Index; 6. Bibliography of the Published Works of Deirdre Flanagan; 7. For Further Reading; 8. Sources

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2002
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7171-3396-6 / 0717133966
ISBN-13	978-0-7171-3396-3 / 9780717133963
Zustand	Neuware