‘Formidable’ place names archive unveiled

THE president unveiled the country’s first countywide place names archive yesterday and praised the man responsible for his dedication to the project over three decades.

What Dr Eamon Lankford started as a small research project on Cape Clear 33 years ago grew to include the mapping of place names all over Co Cork.

The massive archive, which comprises a staggering 115 volumes, records an estimated 250,000 individual names for sites in hundreds of townlands in each of the 23 baronies across Cork. The place names have also been mapped to show where they were used.