"It appears also in two Mx place names: 'Croit Yoky,' a Braddan intack in 1703; and Ballayocky, Andreas. There is a chance that it might be the obs. Eng. Jockey." Extract from A Third Manx Scrapbook by W. W. Gill. Also see Common Names (Celtic), which contains this entry: "...
place-namesplace-signsEnglandScotlandWalesSecretary handanglicana handCarta Nautica no. 10, FlorenceThe claim that the Gough map was originally produced in or about the 1370s, then overwritten and re-inked about fifty years later, is unconvincing. The 'earlier' hand seen north of Hadrian's Wall...
On the website, the maps are indexed under the name of the railroad and the name of the creator of the map. "In 1848, the same year that the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad was opened, another achievement took place which helped Chicago to displace the river cities. The Illinois & ...
Her pre-Truce activities involved raising funds through the organisation of concerts (c.1916), working with the Irish Republican Brotherhood (of which the members were meeting in her house; she names Tom Derrig, Ned Moane, Arthur Griffith and Michael Kilroy). Her place was also the dispatch ...
place-namesplace-signsEnglandScotlandWalesSecretary handanglicana handThe results of a palaeographical and linguistic study of the Gough map demonstrate that although it was initially produced in the 1370s, the map was extensively revised not long thereafter. The pictorial features south of Hadrian's ...
The location of Clonmacnoise is marked on a large scale map published by Lonely Planet Online.An often-heard Irish toast is Slainte an Bhradain Chugat—"the health of the salmon to you!" The origin of the toast is in the myth of the Salmon of Knowledge, which is pictured on the ...
Click on Desert and the names of the townlands in the parish will be displayed. All townlands listed in the parish of Desert are in the Poor Law Union of Clonakilty. Clonakilty is displayed as a Catholic parish on a map on South-West Cork Roman Catholic records, about twenty English miles...
Campbell, `Mapping the realm: a new look at the Gough Map of Britain (c.1360)', Imago Mundi 61:1 (2009): 1-28, at 2. 4. The only exceptions to this assertion in names that are at all legible seem to be that the last letter of both mereshey (Mersea) and Motland (Looe ...
The townland of Currygranny is located at the northwest extremity of Catholic the parish of Clonguish. See: Placenames of County Longford. The area covered by the Catholic parish of Clonguish and the civil parish of Clongest is sustatially the same....