The field names of County Louth
By: by Eve Campbell, with Séamus Bellew and [twenty-three others]
Contributors: Bellew, Séamus; Louth Field Names Project
Publisher: Louth Field Names Project (LFNP)
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Louth, Ireland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780904081084
Subjects: Field names; Geographical Names; Local History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-386).