Scoil: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Place Names

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Local toponomy is an interesting intriguing and illuminating study. Races, with their distinctive languages may pass away and perish, but their memory is preserved in the names of sunlit hills, rushing rivers, and fascinating landscapes. A place name often enshrines a poem, a romance, or an epoch-making event; it is history in cameo. But it is well to sound a few warning notes. Some of our place names are of pre-Celtic origin, and any attempt to interpret them, through the medium of Gaelic, are futile. Again our shanachies took a special delight in inventing stories to explain the names of persons and places. There are not a few modern etymologists who painfully to torture a fanciful explanation out of a place-name, the simple interpretation of which is obvious. Again, many place names have been corrupted almost beyond recognition.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Teangacha

   Gaeilge

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Cáit Ní Bhailís

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Macroom, Co. Cork