The Locus project

The aim of this project is to produce a new historical dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum. We have previously received funding from Toyota Ireland Ltd., from the Higher Education Authority, from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), from An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta and from The Heritage Council. FOUR volumes of the Historical Dictionary of Irish Placenames have been published to date by the Irish Texts Society (see details below).

Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 1 [Names in A-] / Fascúl 1 [Ainmneacha in A-] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2003) xxxiv + 172pp. ISBN: 1-870166-70-1. REPRINTED (with addenda and corrigenda) in April 2007.

• Reviewed by Karl Horst Schmidt, in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 54 (2004) 337-8.
• Reviewed by Paul MacCotter, in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 109 (2004) 226-9.
• Reviewed by Pádraig Ó Macháin, in Éigse 35 (2006) 159-61.

Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 2 [Names in B-] / Fascúl 2 [Ainmneacha i B-] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2005) xxxii + 258pp. ISBN: 1-870166-71-X.

• Reviewed by Karl Horst Schmidt, in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2008) 204-5.
• Reviewed by Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín, in Éigse 36 (2008) 217-21.
• (Vols 1-2) reviewed by Gregory Toner, in Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 55 (Summer, 2008) 69-70.
• (Vols 1-2) reviewed by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Ainm 10 (2009) 146-51.
• Reviewed by Feargal Ó Béarra, in Studia Hibernica 35 (2009-9) 210-13.

Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 3 / Fascúl 3 [C-Ceall Fhursa] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2008) xxxii + 191pp. ISBN: 1-870-16672-8.

• Reviewed by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Béaloideas 77 (2009) 148-9.

Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 4 / Fascúl 4 [Ceall Ghabhann-Cláiríne] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2011) xxxiv + 165 pp. ISBN: 1-870-16673-6.

1. A complete digital copy of Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum (Dublin, 1910), which is to be revised, enlarged and updated into the new Dictionary of Placenames, has been generated (available below)
2. Lists of contents of manuscripts used by Hogan have been drawn up and checking has begun, to discover where texts, then excerpted from manuscripts, have since been published. Postgraduate students in the Department have been employed to carry out this very labour-intensive task.
3. A new and expanded set of abbreviations for texts has been created.
4. A complete bibliography of all known works on Irish placenames has been completed by Dr Donna Thornton. This is due to be published in 2010.
5. At the same time a fachbibliothek (specialist library) of reference books relating to placenames is being built up.
6. Two copies of the Onomasticon (those of the historians Fr Paul Walsh and Séamus Pender) have been obtained on loan by the project and have been gleaned for the additional information they contain.
7. Consultations with specialists working in similar areas has been taking place on a regular basis. Among those consulted have been: Mr Peter Flynn, Academic Projects Manager, Computer Centre, University College, Cork; Mr Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, Director of the Placenames Branch, Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs; Dr Kay Muhr, The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Department of Celtic, The Queen's University of Belfast; Prof. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Former Director of the CELT data-base project at University College, Cork; Mr Tomás Ó Canann, Mequon, Wisconsin; Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Scoil na Gaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh, Dr Fiachra Mac Gabhann, Mr Liam Ó hAisibéil, and Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford.
8. The Locus project would like to appeal to anyone who has new or additional information on any placename, whether cited by Hogan or not, to make this information available. Every addition or correction will be credited to the scholar who submits it. Any additional bibliographical information about placenames will also be very welcome

• Locus Project, c/o Roinn na Sean- agus na Meán-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh, IRELAND.
• Phone: 353-21-4903192; Fax: 353-21-4903102.

• Director: Prof. Pádraig Ó Riain.
• Editors: Prof. Pádraig Ó Riain, Dr Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Dr Kevin Murray.
• Assistant editor: Mr Kenneth Nicholls.
• Database consultants (funded by The Heritage Council [2010]): Ms Emer Purcell and Dr Joseph Flahive.
• Doctoral student (funded by An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta [2009-12]): Ms Olga Karkishchenko.
• Former doctoral student (funded by An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta [2006-9]): Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh.
• Former IRCHSS scholars: Dr Donna Thornton, Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh [2003-6] and Dr Joseph Flahive [2004-5].
• Former HEA scholar: Dr Donna Thornton [1999-2002].
• Former Toyota scholars: Dr Petra S. (Tina) Hellmuth [1998-2001], Dr Aideen O'Leary and Dr Kevin Murray [1996-8].
• Post-graduate students (past and present): Dr Clodagh Ní Dhubhnaigh, Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Mr Diarmaid Ó Lonargáin, Ms Jutta Libera, Ms Soili Lintunen, Dr Philip Bernhardt-House, Ms Jane Sullivan and Mr Michael O'Callaghan.

Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.

• A re-worked electronic copy of Hogan's Onomasticon is NOW available on the Documents of Ireland website. Many thanks to Ms Margaret Lantry for making this new electronic version so user-friendly.
• Searchable copy of Hogan's Onomasticon
• It is hoped in the near future (thanks to Mr Peter Flynn, Manager, Electronic Publishing Unit, UCC) to have a more user-friendly copy of Hogan's Onomasticon available.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

• UCC / ITS Seminar
• Celtic Digital Initiative
• Faculty of Celtic Studies Homepage
• Northern Ireland Place-name Project
• Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
• Ulster Place-name Society
• An Coimisiún Logainmneacha
• An Brainse Logainmneacha
• Irish Townlands
• Roinn na Sean- agus na Meán-Ghaeilge / Department of Early and Medieval Irish
• Celtic Civilisation courses on offer in U.C.C.
• Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge / Department of Modern Irish
• Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT)
• NEW at CELT
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources
• Vikings in Irish Chronicles, 794-902
• Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
• Northern Ireland address database
• Ulster Historical Foundation
• Northern Ireland Family History Societies
• Chronicon: An Electronic History Journal
• Irish Centre for Migration Studies
• Surname Densities of Ireland
• Scottish Place-Name Society
• English Place-Name Society / Institute for Name Studies

Page created by Kevin Murray, April 2, 1998. Last updated: May 30, 2011.

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