Rock Contours?
I've been making fairly steady progress on a new 1:25,000 scale map Connemara Mountains. Was planned to go to print by around month end but some fieldwork required and there…
Facebook updates
If you use Facebook and would like a couple of news items a week relating to our mapping work - observations on placenames and all that sort of thing, then…
Parking symbols in use on maps by EastWest Mapping
There are currently three distinct parking symbols on our maps, though they vary by edition. Please refer to your map. 1) Public car park, standard purple square with white letter…
God’s Well
From Clive: I went up and found God's Well using your new info.... It's a spring, with exceptionally clear water. May or may not have had stonework around it, its…
Kanturk, Brown Mountain and Scarr
Where is Kanturk and Brown Mountain? I've always thought that Kanturk was the area of low hillocks and crags, opposit Cloghoge and overlooking the Inchavore but I've discovered recently that this…
Cloghnagun and Prince William’s Seat
Prince William's Seat and Knocknagun. These are the OS names for two popular hills between Glencullen & Glencree and people often enquire as to the identity of Prince William. It…
Joss Lynam – a tribute
Like many hundreds of other people around Ireland and abroad, I was saddened earlier this week to hear of the passing of Joss Lynam (1924-2011). I knew Joss first through…
Glendasan Glinnasaw
An interesting snippet from the Liam Price Notebooks taken at Wicklow District Court on October 2nd 1935: "I got the true form of Glendasan. Christopher Lawler, carpenter, said in Wicklow…
Lock-spit
This is a name I've come across up near Scarr & the Bracket Rocks - I thought it was the Lough Spit Stone on account of view of Lough Dan…
Augh as a placename
Augh or Agh in a placename is generally thought to come from one of three sources, depending on the situation of the name: Áth - a ford, Achadh - a…