On 15 August 2016 at 20:01, Killian Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hiya, >> >> As yous know, myself and Dave are doing a talk about townlands at the >> global OSM conferences, State of the Map, in Brussels in September. >> >> Can anyone tell me more about the history of townlands? Something nice >> to add to a slide? >> > > See this which talks about boundaries - Baronies etc (you could say the > townlands line up with the baronies....) - based from the Iron Age > https://www.academia.edu/3206604/Kingship_and_ > Sacrifice_Iron_Age_Bog_Bodies_and_Boundaries if you Google the bog bodies > in images you should get some you can use > This pdf talks a bit about the history and the naming in the 19C etc Landscape representation: Place and identity in nineteenth-century ordnance survey maps of *Ireland* <http://www.academia.edu/download/15820198/20110506220925888.pdf#page=76> A Smith - Landscape, Memory and *History*, Pluto Press: London, 2003 - academia.edu > > > > >> I've heard that townlands were mentioned in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Can >> anyone tell me more about this? >> >> I looked at [the scans of the Lebor na hUidre (Book of the Dun >> Cow)](https://www.isos.dias.ie/master.html?https://www.isos. >> dias.ie/libraries/RIA/RIA_MS_23_E_25/english/index.html? >> ref=http://www.isos.dias.ie/libraries/RIA/english/ria_menu.html?ref=), >> is anyone able to point to a word on a page and say "This is townland >> X in Co. Whatever". (I tried it myself, but er, it's Old Irish). It >> would impress to the Americans & other Europeans that the townlands >> are ancient, and a part of our history, heritage and culture. We >> didn't spend all these years mapping them just cause. >> >> Any hints? >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXsfkoAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2NkoH/2dD/XUWA/3EDX/t04G4C+r+ >> FYzLmLgkGIplClf7w1Ux0wB/6ZYgtht6dvZ8DQvRaG6YxbREZXA40HLfcsLoSru2 >> 1/eAOZeEReft7oQjugsZs+uPUNzX01PZ4bk7GTZ12/bfCDwcdAX8lAJhwIGl+Lf2 >> ZWKaVCNq5UmCZtUJvTs/3u5YX3nVrYorjwkQ2+X6/T/Y/jN71kxen1vLrMNJRiQ+ >> 7oEAesQwUT6Vj87mMKJ2Iw3N/6LG6TxwfHSn2etF7Syb4geOV/K6kjPblcQ1usQ5 >> PBSB2OB9h5Apav9QyLIq+u/P1NILDOzUJbSAv/qmyMSUBC3IArhw1hohgGum938= >> =1GX2 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ie mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie >> > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
