The last in a series of meeting to gather local place names is taking place in Carlow tonight.
The Carlow Placenames Project was launched during Heritage Week to try and gather up local knowledge of what we always called things before it dies out.
Carlow Heritage officer Dr Eoin Sullivan explains; “With in the Heritage Plan a lot of feedback came back from a lot of people around Carlow saying you know things like field names and place names are actually dying out and they were quite sad about it and rightly so, but then we thought let’s capture what we can and let’s do it quickly and let’s do it now because that will be there for future generations”.
He’s also been telling KCLR that he’s looking for any name that local people knew a place by; “The three quarter fields, the hungry grass, all these sort of stuff, all these sort-of names occur and we often use them but we never really question what the meaning was, like people think about place names and they think about the fields but it’s even at the level of a rock, rocks names, it could be a tree, it could be a portion of a field”.
And Dr Sullivan adds that his team’s expecting another great gathering from 7 this evening; “We’ve had two fantastic meetings for the last two Tuesdays, our third and final meeting is taking place at the GAA clubhouse in Palatine which is a fantastic place to have it, we had two really good, lively meetings there the last two Tuesdays”.
