Parish Histories and Place Names of West Cork by Bruno O'Donoghue (PT270)

Circa 1985: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original maroon cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 345 very clean and bright pages, previous owners signature on the first free page. Slight shelf wear along the dust jacket edges and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. Very Scarce! (PT270)

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One of the rarest publications on the History of West Cork. A Dictionary with name-explanations and lots of lost historical wordings. Bruno O'Donoghue of Bandon, a life-long enthusiast in the field of Irish literature as well as a dedicated student of the Irish language for many years and who in 1961 published in book form 'West Cork and its Story' and 'West Cork, Parish Histories and Place Names', both of which had been written and published in serial form by Jeremiah O'Mahony a decade previous, now presents the findings of his research into the elucidation of the various place names from over 3,000 townlands in 114 parishes of the south-west extremity of our country. Includes for Example: Abbeymahon/ Ballinaboy/ Ballyfoyle/ Castleventry/ Clondrohid/ Desert More/ Donaghmore/ Durrus/ Dursey Island/ Garrycloyne/ Grenagh/ Inchigeela/ Inniscarra/ Inniskenny/ Innishannon/ Kilgarriff/ Kilcully/ Kilnamartra/ Kilpatrick/ Lislee/ Macroom/ Monkstown/ Myros/ Barony of Carbery/ Nohoval/ Rathbarry/ Ross/ Sherkin/ Schull/ Shandon/ St. Nicholas/ Templebryan/ Timoleague/ Tisaxon/ Tullagh/ Whitechurch etc. Google books.