Cur síos

Investigating Ulster’s place names is an enjoyable and rewarding exploration of our past. Prehistoric sites, early Irish society, past and present landscapes are all there to be discovered.

While, undoubtedly, a large number of our place names derive from Irish Gaelic, this stud also reveals the derivation of common Ulster place names from Viking, Anglo-Norman, English and Scottish roots, putting them in the context of Ulster history, for example, from the Elizabethan conquest of the Ulster Plantation.