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Irish placenames database

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    Tannylan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Tannylan


    Thanks Victor I have been on the look-out for a site like that for a while


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I've seen that one before ... the site that very helpfully (not!) arranges the drop-down list of counties in alphabetic order of their Irish names, even when you select English as the language to use :) Far from complete too .. only 17 mountain names in all of Wicklow? I think not.


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    Fiontar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Fiontar


    Alun wrote: »
    I've seen that one before ... the site that very helpfully (not!) arranges the drop-down list of counties in alphabetic order of their Irish names, even when you select English as the language to use :) Far from complete too .. only 17 mountain names in all of Wicklow? I think not.

    We've now fixed that bug with the alphabetic order of the drop-down list of Counties.

    As for "far from complete", that's the job of the Placenames Branch rather than Fiontar. Unfortunately there are a lot of placenames for them to research and only a small team to do it.

    100,000+ isn't a bad start though, is it?

    Any other feedback or suggestions are welcome!

    Fiontar


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    Fiontar, DCU
    Irish-Medium Teaching & Research Unit
    Focal.ie - National Database of Irish Terminology
    Logainm.ie - Placenames Database of Ireland
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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,375 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I noticed that the site uses "Seabury" for both the English and Irish for the Seabury area of Malahide, but Dublin Bus use "Muiríoch".

    I suspect the origin is a purely commercial derivative of the neighbouring "Seatown" townland between it and Swords.


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