Blair Collection > Surnames & place-names of the Isle of Man

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been made use of;* and a considerable number of field-
names have been rescued from oblivion. f
Indices are given (i) of all the surnames, whether
obsolete or not, the former being indicated by italics ;
(2) of all place-names ; and there is also a glossary of
Manx root-words with their cognates in Irish, Gaelic,
Welsh, etc.
Our information respecting old Irish personal names
has been chiefly derived from the following sources :
(i) The Annals of the Four Masters, edited by
O'Donovan (Dublin, 1856), which were mainly com-
piled by Michael O'Clery, a Franciscan Friar, between
A.D. 1632-6, from the then existing Irish MSS. They
extend from fabulous antiquity to a.d. 1616, (2) The
Chro7iicon Scotonun, a chronicle of Irish affairs from the
earliest times to a.d. 1150, edited by W. M. Hennessy
(London, 1866). (3) The Topographical Poems of
O'Duhhagain and O'Hiddhrin, edited by O'Donovan
(Dublin, 1862). For the original forms of the Scandi-
navian names to (i) The Landndina-hoc, which is a
record of the colonization of Iceland {Clarendon Press,
Oxford). (2) Cleasby and Vigfusson's great Icelandic
Dictionary {Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1874). (3) The
Flatcyjarboc (Copenhagen), the Sturlunga and other
Sagas {Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1878). For the ex-
planation of the place-names, in addition to the above,
and for purposes of illustration and comparison, refer-
* The spelling of the names in each of these three last authori-
ties, which are all of recent origin, is frequently very corrupt.
t The field-names in the parishes of Braddan and Onchan have
been collected by the writer, and in the parishes of Maughold,
Lezayre, Ballaugh, and Michael by the PJace-Names Committee cf
the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
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