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

[Killian Driscoll]

On 15 August 2016 at 20:01, Killian Driscoll <killiandriscoll at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
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>> Hiya,
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>> 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.
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>> Can anyone tell me more about the history of townlands? Something nice
>> to add to a slide?
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> 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

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>> I've heard that townlands were mentioned in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Can
>> anyone tell me more about this?
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>> 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.
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>> Any hints?
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