The origin and history of Irish names of places, Volume 1 |
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The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, Volume 1 Patrick Weston Joyce Visualizzazione completa - 1870 |
The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, Volume 1 Patrick Weston Joyce Visualizzazione completa - 1891 |
The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, Volume 1 Patrick Weston Joyce Visualizzazione completa - 1901 |
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Adamnan ancient Irish anglicised anglicised form annals Antrim applied Armagh aspirated Bally barony called in Irish Carlow carn castle Cavan celebrated century church Clare Colgan common Connaught Cork Cormac's Cormac's Glossary corrupted denote derived Derry diminutive Donegal Dublin English erected fairy Fermanagh ford fortress Four Mast Galway genitive gives name glen hill Ireland Irish authorities Irish form Irish name Irish word island Kerry Kildare Kilkenny king King's County lake land Latin Leinster Leitrim letters Limerick Longford Lough Mayo meadow meaning Meath mentioned modern forms modern names Monaghan mountain Munster number of places O'Donovan occurs original parish Patrick place called plain plural present name preserved pronounced pronunciation Queen's County rath ridge river river holm rock Roscommon saint signifies Slieve Sligo sometimes stone territory Tipperary town townland called townland names townlands translated tree tribe Tyrone Ulster usually village Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow wood Zeuss
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Pagina 165 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Pagina 220 - Scottish manners, of the which there is one use amongst them, to keep their cattle and to live themselves the most part of the year in boolies,1 pasturing upon the mountain and waste wild places, and removing still to fresh land as they have depastured the former.
Pagina 167 - Fantastical spirits are by the Irish called men of the sidh, because they are seen as it were to come out of beautiful hills to infest men ; and hence the vulgar belief that they reside in certain subterraneous habitations within these hills; and these habitations, and sometimes the hills themselves, are called by the Irish sidhe or siodha.
Pagina 461 - Avas held in veneration by the people ; for instance one under which their chiefs used to be inaugurated, or periodical games celebrated. Trees of this kind were regarded with intense reverence and affection ; one of the greatest triumphs that a tribe could* achieve over their enemies, was to cut down their inauguration tree, and no outrage was more keenly resented, or when possible, visited with sharper retribution.
Pagina 80 - In process of time, Britain, besides the Britons and the Picts, received a third nation, the Scots, who, migrating from Ireland under their leader Reuda, either by fair means or by force of arms secured to themselves those settlements among the Picts which they still possess. From the name of their commander, they are to this day called Dalreudins ; for in their language Dal signifies a part.
Pagina 273 - Neid", where the king held his residence at that time. The king came out upon the green, surrounded by a great concourse of the men of Erin, and he was playing chess
Pagina 83 - Lectures, p. 527.) The remains of this great palace are situated about a mile and a half west of Armagh, and consist of a circular rath or rampart of earth with a deep fosse, enclosing about eleven acres, within which are two smaller circular forts. The great rath is still known by the name of the Navan Fort, in which the original name is curiously preserved. The proper Irish form is Eamhiiin, which is pronounced aven, Emania being merely a latinized form.
Pagina 84 - Craobh-ruadh [Creeveroe] or the Red branch, where they were trained in valour and feats of arms. The name of this ancient military college is still preserved in that of the adjacent townland of Creeveroe, and thus has descended through another medium, to our own time, the echo of these old heroic days.
Pagina 452 - AD 1162. The monastery of the monks at lubhar-cinn-tragha was burned, with all its furniture and books, and also the yew which St. Patrick himself had planted.
Pagina 467 - ... term ; for there are a great many hills all through the country with this name, which are now called Tonlegee. Sometimes the preposition re is used instead of le — both having the same meaning — and the name in this case becomes Tonregee. In this last, ad is often inserted after the n (p.