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Sound files of County Wexford placenames available now on logainm.ie

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Did you know additional resources such as articles and maps are available on logainm.ie? See http://www.logainm.ie/Eolas. (There is a link to this at the top right hand side.)

Did you know educational resources (in Irish) are available on logainm.ie? See www.logainm.ie/Scoil. (There is a link to this at the top right hand side.)

Try out the quick-zoom buttons at the top of the main pane in the map view. After clicking on one of them, click on ‘show placenames’ underneath.

Are you interested in the common Irish elements that appear in placenames? You may be interested in this list.

Did you know that the quick search on logainm.ie is smart? You should get relevant results even if you misspell your query. See more>>

Publications: The Locus Project, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork, is producing a new Historical Dictionary of Irish Placenames to replace Fr. Edmund Hogan’s Onomasticon Goedelicum. Four volumes of the dictionary have been published to date by the Irish Texts Society along with Bibliography of Publications on Irish Placenames and Edmund Hogan’s Onomasticon Goedelicum: Reconsiderations. For further details and prices, go to www.irishtextssociety.org.

Do you want an explanataion of placename categories? You’ll find it here.

Do you want to translate a list of placenames? Use the tool here. (There is a link to this at the top right hand side.)