Re: Irish Placenames
Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:04:32 +0000
Friel's play refers to the Ordnance Survey. You might start with
the survey itself which is being published in its numerous fascicules by
the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB. The play is excellent, but
I think Friel clearly exaggerates the extent to which Irish place-
names were replaced with English names. Just pick up a town and
and townland index from the census and you will notice that there
are very few English names.
Jerry Hall
hall@quads.uchicago.edu