These names are real signifiers of our diverse native landscape and are shaped by local knowledge and past generations.
Analysis: these names are real signifiers of our diverse native landscape and are shaped by local knowledge and past generations.
The name and the memory of the hill live on to those few who knew it, but another generation will see such local knowledge disappear. The names are real. They are real signifiers of the landscape, shaped by the local community and the past generations which made it. As these names are being recounted, each with its own relation to house and farmyard, another place emerges in passing, ‘oh that’s down towards Ard na Muc’. This one seems well known to all present. Ard na Muc ‘the height of the pigs’, is a mere bend in a country road, lined on one side with bungalows. Despite the modest incline, the area offers fine views of the surrounding countryside. There must have been a story – perhaps a black pig roamed here.
The meetings attract young and old, male and female, people born and reared in the area with roots going back many generations, newcomers and longterm residents of all sorts. The ideal mix is one of the curious and the knowledgeable. Questions are asked, townlands are delineated, and names and all sorts of other ancilliary information about the lie of the land are shared freely. A not infrequent refrain is ‘I never knew that and I’m living here 30 years’.
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