IRISH LOCAL NAMES EXPLAINED by P.W. Joyce. Dublin 1902. 107 pgs.

This useful little work gives us the original meanings of thousands of Irish place names. Most names are derived from geographic or cultural features of the landscape, described in the Irish language and transformed through time to their present form. Many place names are derived from the clans or families who once occupied an area. As an additional feature, this work includes as an appendix "Vocabulary of Irish Root Words," giving the meaning of frequently recurring roots from which place names are formed. Anyone writing the history of an Irish family will want this work to help them fill out the background information on the residence for the family, and to see if any localities in Ireland are named for that family.

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