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| pdtempan 2010-07-28 12:21:52 |
A wolf by another name
Very interesting piece, Mark, and a good bit of sleuthing. Might be worth checking if you can find an entry for this name in the Ordnance Survey Name Book for Co. Laois (Queen's Co. at that time). Sometimes there's v. little on minor names (i.e. not townlands), but you never know. By the way, you mentioned mac ti/re as the Irish name for the wolf. This comes up in a couple of Kerry names: Eisc na Mac Ti/re ('ravine of the wolves') near Waterville, probably the big ravine immediately above Lough Iskanamacteery, and Céim an Mhic Ti/re / The Wolf's Step, name of the pass between Anascaul and An Baile Dubh, not marked on the Discovery, but shown on the 6" map as Wolfstep. Two other words (apparently older) for the wolf that occur in place-names are faol, e.g. Faoldroim / Feltrim, 'wolf-ridge', Co. Dublin, and bréach, e.g. Bréachmhaigh 'wolf-plain', a name that occurs in several places round Ireland, anglicised in different ways. You'll find them all at logainm.ie. I see one of them is anglicised as Breaghmore, Co. Offaly, also in Slieve Bloom. If the names can be taken at face value and aren't metaphorical, you could trace the presence of wolves in early Ireland by plotting the place-names. All the best, Paul |
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| wicklore 2010-07-26 18:00:37 |
Wolftrap Mountain
Thanks for the kind comment about the Wolftrap Mountain comment Derry259. I originally wanted to write one of the new 'short summary' features for Wolftrap Mountain. However it turned into a full fledged piece on the possible origin of this curious mountain name, and a brief look at our historical experience of wolves in Ireland. Glad you enjoyed it! |
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| Derry259 2010-07-25 16:43:28 |
Wolftrap Mountain
Wicklore a really interesting article on Wolves in Ireland,I really enjoyed reading it....... |
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| Bleck Cra 2010-07-20 23:01:04 |
SCAVENGER WALK 4 MOURNES SATURDAY 15TH AUG
SCAVENGER WALK 4 - MOURNES - SATURDAY 15TH AUGUSTInformal Grade 2 walk – Grade 1 craic. Mountainviewers and friends North and South. 3 tops Bearnagh group. Start Trassey Track Nr Newcastle Co Down, 9.30am 15th August. Leaders mountainviewers Bleck Cra and Jackill. At today’s date we have interest for the walk from Tipperaray, Cork, Offaly, Dublin, Cornwall, Kerry, Cambridgeshire and the North. For details, email Bleck Cra at douglasreid@utvinternet.com |
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| Bleck Cra 2010-07-21 22:17:01 |
MORE AND MORE FOR SCAVVY 4
Great, bloke. Will be good to see you, from these 2 other corners of the world. Will update the allcomers list. |
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| dbloke 2010-07-21 09:41:11 |
Scavvy Walk 4 - Let's synchronise calendars
Mr Cra, pretty sure Saturday 15th August was last year! Anyways. you can add Kerry and Cambridgeshire to the attendee list as Mr Walker and myself have booked our accommodation from Thursday 12th and will be warming up on the Friday. And the weather will be nice too, the Donegal postman says so. |
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| maclimber 2010-07-20 19:41:02 |
AH or AHHHH!!
Big woop AH on the marketing my facebook page is empty ! not even any friends! |
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| maclimber 2010-07-20 19:37:41 |
Acid reign?
Thanks for the 'diss' chord BC ignored my request as usual just burned my guitar and piano and fallen on my music stand for my musical sins. To all others the erosion is there the landowners dont like free spirits running over their land ignoring the pleas to use the path but anarachy is all with some enjoy while its still there |
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| jackill 2010-07-20 13:04:39 |
djouces dispair
Ah yes, Geolives, easily the most complicated , user unfriendly site ever concieved.After going through all the steps you mentioned, which took ages due to poor instructions by both OSI and Geolives, I have succeeded in downloading some maptiles.Sometimes indeed there was a wait but never more than a few hours(usually much less) for the download link to appear in my inbox. I would try downloading the tiles again and getting a new link sent(no cost as you already own the tiles). I would also try to keep the size of file small as the larger it is the more unreliable the download seems to be(that said I resorted to downloading a single maptile in one instance and still have not managed to get that particular maptile to date!) Overall not a good service, with instructions translated from French by an amateur. |
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| ahendroff 2010-07-20 11:04:37 |
From High Places
Thanks csd!For other Mountain View-ers who wish to link up with me on Facebook, please do - I'm the guy in the snows. My Facebook page will have updates on the book, etc |
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