Title: The field names of County Louth /
Authors: Campbell, Eve,; Bellew, Séamus.; Louth Field Names Project.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Field names Ireland Louth (County); Names, Geographical Ireland Louth (County); Louth (Ireland : County) History, Local.
Abstract: The image on the front cover shows fields in the townland of Ardaghy, Omeath, in the Cooley peninsula. Native Irish was spoken in Omeath well into the twentieth century, and the townland has a rich corpus of Irish-language field names. The back cover shows the ancient monastic site of Monasterboice, and the rich tillagge landscape that covers much of lowland County Louth.
Contents: 1. Introduction and methodology -- 2. Enclosing the land: a history of Louth fields and field boundaries -- 3. From the house out: place names and rural settlement -- 4. A living from the land: field names and farming -- 5. The past in the present: archaeology in the fields -- 6. From linen to lime: field names and rural industry -- 7. Field names, topography and landscape -- 8. Field names, hunting and wildlife -- 9. Rundale: partnership farming in nineteenth-century Cooley -- 10. Stories in places: narrative and historical field names -- 11. A hidden reservoir of Irish language.