Reeks Placenames Query 4: Big Gun
Highlighting another wee query relating to Breandán Ó Cíobháin’s placename research for the Reeks area, undertaken about fifty years ago. The Big Gun is a name that has appeared on…
Reeks Map
Reeks Placenames Query 3: Knocknapeasta
Reeks Placenames Query 3 Highlighting another wee query relating to Breandán Ó Cíobháin’s placename research for the Reeks area, undertaken about fifty years ago. The highest point on the Eastern…
Reeks Placenames Query 2: Cnoc na Toinne
Highlighting another wee query relating to Breandán Ó Cíobháin’s placename research for the Reeks area, undertaken about fifty years ago. Turn left or east at the Top of the Ladder…
Reeks Placenames Query 1: An Barr Caol
As per previous post, I’ve been reading carefully though Breandán Ó Cíobháin’s placename research for the Reeks area, undertaken about fifty years ago. A number of the names he lists…
Placenames in the Reeks
In terms of hill names, the historical record of mountain names in the Reeks is patchy. The Ordnance Survey Six Inch maps of the 1840s and the subsequent derived One…
Old Kerry Fields
One of the quiet pleasures in compiling map detail is the observing of different layers of time and history laid on top of each other. It can be relatively modern…
Kerry Contours
Working away at draft detail for new Kerry maps, still a long way to go but it’s interesting terrain and you wouldn’t notice the days slipping by. Leaving aside the…
Making a Start on Kerry
Cleared the decks temporarily and making a start on plotting draft detail for parts of Kerry. In this case, two maps of The Reeks and Mangerton, overlapping around the Gap…