Naming the Land: Reflections on Co.Clare Place-Names by Michael Mac Mahon

         Early Place names
         Tribal Territories
         Place Lore
         Topographical and Settlement Features
         Land Measures; Surveys and Sources
         A Vanishing Heritage
         Notes

The names of the land show the heart of a race;
They move on the tongue like the lilt of a song.
You say the name and I see the place-
Drumbo, Dungannon, Annalong.
Barony, townland, we cannot go wrong.
You say Armagh, and I see the hill
With the two tall spires or the square low tower…

John Hewitt, Ulster Names ^[1] (courtesy John Hewitt Estate).