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EDITION.FOURTH
DUBLIN:
UPPERSAOKVILLE-STREET.McGLASHAN ct 50,GILL,
AND CO.MAR.SHALLWHITTAKERAND CO.; SIMPKIN,LONDON :
MENZIE.S.EDINBURGH : JOHN
1875.TO
PATRICK KEENAN,JOSEPH ESQ.,
of tbc Crbn- of'ijonoumbic|llost % §a%Compauioit
TRIBUTEAS A SMALL
TO
AXD KINDNESS OFPATEIOTISJX, HEART,GENIUS,
IS DEDICATED,
BY
THE AUTHOE.PKEFACE.
Riallam cimchealL iNia
—Let uswander round1; pOt)llLa
Ireland : So wrote the
topogra-
3rJohn five hundredO'Dugan, years
when his de-), beginning poetical
of and so I addressiption Ireland,
The willmy readers, to-day. journey
a novel one and to those whobe at least ; are inte-
in the of in therested topography ourcountrj^, origin
of local or in the of itnames, philosophy language,
be attended with some instruction and amuse-may
ment.
The materials for this book were andcollected,
the book itself was in the intervals of seriouswritten,
and duties. The work of ar-absorbing collection,
and was to me a never-rangement, composition,
source of it was often;failing pleasure interrupted
and resumed at intervals and if ever it in-;longvi Pi'efacc.
volved it wa8 and a labour oflal)Oiir, really truly
love.
havo various of theI illustratedmight portions
reference to the local of otherbook by etymologies
and this was indeed inten-countries ; my original
abandoned for Ition but I soon found that the
; it,
inmaterials I had tohands, relating exclusively my
were more thanown for thecountry, enough space
atmy disposal.
from other I allQuotations languages have,
translated into and I have;English giventhrough,
Irishin brackets the of thepronunciation principal
as as could bewords, nearly represented by English
letters.
nomenclature ofmost countries ofThe local Europe
made of the of various races that ofis ;up languages
for is a mixture ofGreat Britain, instance, Keltic,
and Norman FrenchLatin, Danish,Anglo-Saxon,
successive and interest-words, indicating invasions,
and valuable for that as a means ofreason,verying
but often inter-historical research ; perplexingly
and difficult to unravel. In our therewoven island,
was admixture of till the intro-races,scarcely any
duction of an element,important English chiefly
— as I havewithin the last three hundred for,years
Danish noshown the(p. 104), irruptions produced
effect and our
;appreciable accordingly, place-names
are with the of about aKeltic,purely exception