BULLETIN OF THE ULSTER PLACE-NAME SOCIETY

INTRODUCTION

Nollaig Ó Muraíle

The first series of the Bulletin of the Ulster Place-Name Society [BUPNS], which appeared between the years 1952 and 1957, was largely the brainchild of Seán Mac Airt (alias John B. Arthurs). Besides being its main founder, he was also the editor. The demise of the first series (with Vol. 5, part 2, in Autumn 1957) coincided with the decline in Seán Mac Airt's health; he died of cancer, at the age of 41, in 1959. After a break of more than twenty years, a second series of the Bulletin began to appear in 1978 under the editorship of Deirdre Flanagan (who, as Deirdre Morton, had been a regular contributor to the first series since 1953). Over the next few years four volumes were published: 1 (1978) [4+58+23 pp.]; 2 (1979) [4+60+14 pp.]; 3 (1980-81) [4+73+17 pp.]; 4 (1981-2) [4+75+9 pp.]. Death again caused a break in continuity (this time of shorter duration) when Deirdre Flanagan died suddenly and tragically in March 1984. The present series (the third) - under a new main title Ainm (="name"), although retaining the designation "BUPNS" as a subtitle - was launched in 1986. Vols. 1-4 and most of Vol. 5 were edited by Ruairí Ó hUiginn before his departure in 1993 to become Professor of Modern Irish in what is now the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

BUPNS, Vol. 1 (1952-53) 

Vol. 1, Part 1 (Autumn 1952):

NOTES AND NEWS 1

SOURCES OF PLACE-NAMES IN COUNTY ARMAGH TG Paterson 4

THE CALENDAR OF PATENT ROLLS OF JAMES I Rev. Fr B Mooney 8

MAGH RATH JB Arthurs 10

MOURNE JB Arthurs 15

1. NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS ON PLACE-NAME INVESTIGATION G Kelly 20

2. ON THE COLLECTION OF MATERIALS FOR A PLACE-NAME SURVEY JB Arthurs 23

Vol. 1, Part 2 (Spring 1953):

NOTES AND NEWS 25

HANNA ON 'MAGH RATH' Rev. Fr B Mooney 26

MAGH RATH: SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE JB Arthurs 30

ARMAGH STREET-NAMES TG Paterson 31

ADDENDA TO 'SOURCES OF PLACE-NAMES IN COUNTY ARMAGH' TG Paterson 36

MACHA AND ARMAGH JB Arthurs 37

'NA' IN PLACE-NAMES G Kelly 44

CORRIGENDUM G Kelly 45

CAILLE CONAILL F McCann 46

Vol. 1, Part 3 (Summer 1953):

AN CHLOSACH Dr S Ó Ceallaigh 49

QUERIES AND SUGGESTIONS: 1. ARD MACHA BRÉIGE; 2. KILCORWAY; 3. MacART'S FORT; BALLYMACARRET   S Ó Ceallaigh 54

COUNTY ANTRIM ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME-BOOK JB Arthurs 56

COUNTY ARMAGH ORDNANCE SURVEY LETTERS JB Arthurs 59

ARMAGH STREET-NAMES (contd.) TG Paterson 67

'DÁ' IN PLACE-NAMES F McCann 72

Vol. 1, Part 4 (Autumn 1953):

SOUND-CHANGE AND THE SHAPING OF PLACE-NAMES Rev. Fr B Mooney 73

ADDENDA TO 'AN CHLOSACH' Dr S Ó Ceallaigh 78

TERRITORIAL NOMENCLATURE BETWEEN THE BANN AND FOYLE  Dr S Ó Ceallaigh 79

KILCORWAYE AND CLANRYE Rev. Fr B Mooney 83

CLANRYE: THE NEWRY RIVER JB Arthurs 84

THE COUNTY ARMAGH ORDNANCE SURVEY LETTERS (contd.) JB Arthurs 86

COUNTY ANTRIM ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME-BOOK (contd.) D Morton 90

LIST OF MEMBERS, 1952-1953  94-6

BUPNS, Vol. 2 (1954) 

Vol. 2, Part 1 (Spring 1954)

NOTES AND NEWS 1

SOME RECENT WORK IN INTERNATIONAL TOPONOMY JB Arthurs 2

BALLYMACILRANY (CO. ANTRIM) AND BALYMACKILLREINY (CO. DOWN) Rev. Fr Bernard J Mooney 8

TERRITORIAL NOMENCLATURE BETWEEN THE BANN AND FOYLE  Dr S Ó Ceallaigh 11

FORKHILL (Co. Armagh) JB Arthurs 14

COUNTY ANTRIM ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME-BOOK (contd.) D Morton 15

REVIEW:  Fr Bernard J Mooney, The Parish of Seagoe: Its Place-names and History. Part 1 - Place-names F McCann 19

REVIEW: Liam Price, The Place-names of Co. Wicklow. IV - The Barony of Talbotstown Lower JB Arthurs 21

Vol. 2, Part 2 (Summer 1954)

DOCUMENTARY SOURCES FOR CO. ANTRIM PLACE-NAMES Deirdre Morton 23

PLACE-NAME PHONOLOGY: THE NAME SEAGOE AND THE ANGLICISATION OF IRISH SIBILANTS GB Adams 30

COUNTY ANTRIM ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME-BOOK (contd.) Deirdre Morton 31

SLIABH FUAID JB Arthurs 33

THE ARMAGH AND MONAGHAN ORDNANCE SURVEY LETTERS (contd.) JB Arthurs 39

Vol. 2, Part 3 (Autumn 1954)

EARLY SEPTS AND TERRITORIES OF CO. ARMAGH JB Arthurs 45

SOME EARLY MAPS OF CO. ANTRIM Deirdre Morton 56

NOTE ON A FERMANAGH ESTATE MAP JB Arthurs 60

THE ARMAGH AND MONAGHAN ORDNANCE SURVEY LETTERS (contd.) JB Arthurs 61

STRANMILLIS JB Arthurs 66

ADDENDA TO 'SLIABH FUAID' JB Arthurs 67

BUPNS, Vol. 3 (1955)

Vol. 3, Part 1 (Spring 1955)

THE ELEMENT 'DEARG' IN CERTAIN PLACE-NAMES Rev. Fr BJ Mooney 1

THE CHANGE FROM T TO S IN CERTAIN PLACE-NAMES  Rev. Fr BJ Mooney 4

DIALECT STUDIES AND ULSTER PLACE-NAMES GB Adams 5

STRANMILLIS, DERRYVOLGIE, FALLS AND THE CINAMENT JB Arthurs 10

THE CHURCH LANDS OF NORTH DOWN Lt.-Col. JHR Greeves 13  

Vol. 3, Part 2 (Summer 1955)

NORTH DOWN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XVIIth CENTURY (Part 2) Lt.-Col. JHR Greeves 21

SOME CO. DOWN PLACE-NAMES OF THE DE COURCY PERIOD Deirdre Morton 29

STRANMILLIS, DERRYVOLGIE, FALLS AND THE CINAMENT JB Arthurs and Deirdre Morton 35

Vol. 3, Part 3 (Autumn 1955)

SOME FIELD-NAMES IN THE BURREN DISTRICT OF SOUTH DOWN Rev. Fr B Treanor 43

NORTH DOWN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XVIIth CENTURY (contd.) Lt.-Col. JHR Greeves 50

A NOTE ON THE PLACE-NAME 'ARANEA' Gearóid Mac Niocaill 59

REVIEWS: ULSTER FOLKLIFE, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH CATHOLIC HISTORICAL COMMITTEE  Rev. Fr BJ Mooney 61 and 62

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1954-55 65-6

BUPNS, Vol. 4, (1956)

Vol. 4, Part 1 (Spring 1956)

IRISH TOPONOMY AND THE THEORIES OF PRE-GAELIC SUBSTRATA GB Adams 1

APPENDICES [to foregoing article] 19

CORRECTIONS IN 'DIALECT STUDIES AND ULSTER  PLACE-NAMES' Vol. III, pt.1 22

DISTRIBUTION-MAP OF TULACH (ANGLICÉ TULLY, TULLAGH, TULLA, TULLIG, 'A HILL') 22A

Vol. 4, Part 2 (Autumn 1956) 

CARN MACCU BUACHALLA Rev. Fr E Ó Doibhlin 23

A MANUSCRIPT NOTE JB Arthurs 24

THE ELEMENT 'BRAGUE' IN CERTAIN PLACE-NAMES Rev. Fr BJ Mooney 25

THE ELEMENT 'CAL' IN PLACE-NAMES JB Arthurs 28

THE PLACE-NAMES OF COUNTY ARMAGH JB Arthurs 32

TUATH-DIVISIONS IN THE BARONIES OF BELFAST AND MASSEREENE (contd.) Deirdre Morton 38-44

Vol. 5, Part 1 (Spring 1957) 

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE DEIRDRE STORY Hugh P Bevan, BA 1 

TUATH-DIVISIONS IN THE BARONIES OF BELFAST AND MASSEREENE (contd.) Deirdre Morton 6

A NOTE ON 'CINAMENT' Professor Reid 12 

THE PLACE-NAMES OF COUNTY ARMAGH  (contd.) JB Arthurs 13

MAGHERAFELT JB Arthurs 34

CORRIGENDA 34

Vol. 5, Part 2 (Autumn 1957)

THE CHURCH OF SHANKILL AND THE CHAPEL OF THE FORD Deirdre Morton 35

THE PLACE-NAMES OF COUNTY ARMAGH  (contd.) JB Arthurs 40

FORMER TOWNLAND NAMES IN TUATH CINAMENT Deirdre Morton 48

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IRISH TOPONOMY FOR 1955 Pádraig Ó Niatháin 53

RECENT PUBLICATIONS JB Arthurs 54-6

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