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 index of place-names. The booklet will be on sale at the UPNS meetings for the special price of £2.50. The sterling price is £3 per copy, UK p&p included, from the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, c/o Celtic Studies, School of Modern Languages, Queen’s University Belfast BT7 1NN, cheques etc payable to UPNS account B. [NB Local groups may order at only £2 each (booksellers discount) for 10+ copies, plus postage (each copy weighs 196g, UK postage on 10 copies £3.95)]. 

A Dictionary of Ulster Place-names: Patrick McKay (ISBN 0 85389 7425, £7.50)

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.

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