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SNSBI 2007 Drumcondra meeting (St Patrick’s College, March 31 – April 03)

There is a report in Nomina 30, 121–123.

Saturday 31 March

Sunday 1 April

  • Prof. Thomas Clancy: Logie bared: an ecclesiastical place-name element in eastern Scotland
  • Dr Micheál Ó Mainnín: Navigating the Dabhall: the river and its influence on the toponymy of North Armagh
  • Dr Paul Cullen: The survival of Celtic place-names in Kent
  • Dr Carole Hough: Names in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
  • Dr Kay Muhr: From Tamlachtae Dublocho to Gort Tamhlacht na Muc
  • Peter Kitson: OE hlāw/hlǣw ‘burial mound (etc.?)’
  • Dr Fiachra Mac Gabhann: The microtoponymy of Achill, Inishturk and Inishark, County Mayo
  • Paul Tempan: Five common generic elements in Irish hill and mountain names: Binn, Cnoc, Cruach, Mullach, Sliabh
  • Dr Pat McKay: Some Scots influences on Ulster place-names
  • Dr Simon Taylor: The trouble with the Forest of Outh – defining a boundary in medieval Fife
  • Michael Ansell: Place-name evidence for woodland distribution and hunting in medieval Galloway and Carrick
  • Dr Rhian Parry: Farm and field names of Ardudwy Uwch Artro
  • Prof. Liam Mac Mathúna: Anglicised names in bilingual texts (1600–1800)

Monday 2 April

  • Dr Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich: English placenames in south Wexford
  • Dr Éamon Lankford: Cork and Kerry place-names survey methodology
  • Jennifer Scherr: The Norman French element bretesche in England and Ireland
  • Dr Kevin Murray: The Locus project
  • Afternoon coach excursion to Glendalough