Ordnance Survey Letters: Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Down Collected During the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1834. Down |
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Page xxiii
... names for me in a very satisfactory manner and from his pronunciation I was ... Irish baile mic giolla bric which wd be Anglicizd Ballymacilbrick – just as ... Irish very well , and is now the only repertory of the traditions and legends ...
... names for me in a very satisfactory manner and from his pronunciation I was ... Irish baile mic giolla bric which wd be Anglicizd Ballymacilbrick – just as ... Irish very well , and is now the only repertory of the traditions and legends ...
Page xl
... names during these early years of the Survey in a memo to Col. Colby at ... Irish language to assist in choosing among such conflicting evidence . You ... Irish Dictionary . The orthography of Irish names had however been hitherto very ...
... names during these early years of the Survey in a memo to Col. Colby at ... Irish language to assist in choosing among such conflicting evidence . You ... Irish Dictionary . The orthography of Irish names had however been hitherto very ...
Page xli
... Irish scholar to the ground with the abstracted information in his hand where from examination & inquiry the original Irish name was discovered . The Books were then returned to this Office , and we adopted that one among the modern names ...
... Irish scholar to the ground with the abstracted information in his hand where from examination & inquiry the original Irish name was discovered . The Books were then returned to this Office , and we adopted that one among the modern names ...
Contents
Michael Herity John ODonovan | vii |
Donal OConnor and Foreword to | xliii |
John ODonovan Letters from County Down | 5 |
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Common terms and phrases
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