[Tagging] Colby's "Instructions for the Interior Survey of Ireland" (Was: Strange tags)

[Andrew Davidson]

On 30/9/19 22:15, Paul Allen wrote:
> That wasn't the one I saw, but it did remind me that the one I saw was
> somewhere on the NLS site.  Close enough to make the same point, though. 
> 

I've read the same thing in a number of different places but they're all 
referring to Colby's instructions.

 > Ultimately, the official names derive from going around and asking 
locals.

Only the "right sort" of locals. This caused a problem in Ireland 
because the "right sort" of local was usually the local priest...who was 
often Protestant and from England.