On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hiya, > > 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. > > Can anyone tell me more about the history of townlands? Something nice > to add to a slide? > 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 > I've heard that townlands were mentioned in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Can > anyone tell me more about this? > > 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. > > Any hints? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXsfkoAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2NkoH/2dD/XUWA/3EDX/t04G4C+r+ > FYzLmLgkGIplClf7w1Ux0wB/6ZYgtht6dvZ8DQvRaG6YxbREZXA40HLfcsLoSru2 > 1/eAOZeEReft7oQjugsZs+uPUNzX01PZ4bk7GTZ12/bfCDwcdAX8lAJhwIGl+Lf2 > ZWKaVCNq5UmCZtUJvTs/3u5YX3nVrYorjwkQ2+X6/T/Y/jN71kxen1vLrMNJRiQ+ > 7oEAesQwUT6Vj87mMKJ2Iw3N/6LG6TxwfHSn2etF7Syb4geOV/K6kjPblcQ1usQ5 > PBSB2OB9h5Apav9QyLIq+u/P1NILDOzUJbSAv/qmyMSUBC3IArhw1hohgGum938= > =1GX2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie