PUBLICATIONS

Publications by UPNS / Place-Name Project members:  

Celebrating Ulster’s Townlands: Kay Muhr  (ISBN 0 85369 7565, £3)

A4 booklet reproducing in colour the 22 panels of the exhibition, with information on the Ulster Place-Name Society, a reading list, and an index of place-names. The booklet will be on sale at UPNS meetings for the special price of £2.50. The sterling price is £3 per copy, UK p&p included, obtainable only from the Society, cheques payable to UPNS. [NB Groups may order at only £2 each (booksellers discount) for 10+ copies, plus postage (each copy weighs 196g)].

A Dictionary of Ulster Place-names: Patrick McKay (1999, 2007, ISBN 0 85389 7425, reprint £10.50)

160pp,1300 names of Ulster’s best-known cities, towns, villages, mountains, lakes and rivers, attractively illustrated and with an index of common place-name elements. The languages of  Irish, English, Scots, Old French and Old Norse are represented.

Lough Neagh Places: Their Names and Origins: Patrick McKay and Kay Muhr (2007, ISBN 978 0 85389 909 9, paperback £15)

This book deals with the varied place-names of the area in the form of a journey round Ireland’s largest lough, beginning and ending at the historic town of Antrim at the north-eastern corner. Fully illustrated.

For copies of these please use the following link to the website of the publisher, Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, Queen’s University Belfast http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/COB/Publications/Place-NameTitles/

Place-Names of Northern Ireland: NI Place-Name Project QUB

For details see Cló Ollscoil na Banríona above, and for copies of the Place-Names of Northern Ireland series (8 volumes to date) you may also use the following link to the Books Ireland website: 

http://www.booksireland.org.uk/store/place-names-of-northern-ireland

If ordering books through the Society, please add £2 per volume for UK postage and packing. Other currencies: please contact UPNS for a price.

Place-Names of Northern Ireland Series

For details of the Place-Names of Northern Ireland Series please use the following link to the

Queens University, Belfast website