[OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

Killian Driscoll killiandriscoll at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 18:01:53 UTC 2016


On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

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> 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




> 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?
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