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John O’CallaghanThe Mayo News |
“Ross appears on Browne’s Map, 1584, as part of Mayo, but this was disputed by Co Galway and it was dealt with as part of the latter county in the...
We have looked at isthmuses in Pontoon, Curraun, and Cong previously; this week we are in Furnace, in Burrishoole, situated on a narrow neck of land...
ANTHROPOMORPHISM, the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to an object, in a real or imagined way, has given rise to a multitude of...
The English word ‘mace’ has several meanings – with and without a capital ‘M’. Mace with a capital M is a form of tear gas or a chain of...
IN this final article on Mayo townland names containing the word ‘field’, we visit the baronies of Tirawley, Gallen and Costello.At the northern...
KNOCK, or Cnoc, meaning ‘hill’, comes in at fifth place in the ‘top ten’ of prefix root-words in townland placenames in Co Mayo. With a grand...
We are in the Barony of Tirawley – ‘Awley’s Country’, from Tír Amhlaidh. Tír also means ‘territory’ or ‘province’. “‘The Book of...
Earlier this year in July I explored the townland of Legan, west of Old Head, near Louisburgh. I asked readers to help locate the standing stone, An...
During Westport’s Covie Week, held in late July, I presented a slideshow, ‘Townlands of Westport’. One member of the audience, Eibhlín...
In April 2022, this page ‘captured’ Carrigskeewaun with the help of poet, Michael Longley. Sadly, his dear friend and neighbour, Michael Viney,...
I had decided to feature the townland of Boheh, when Pat Bree asked me about its meaning on behalf of a friend of his who was puzzled by the name.The...