PLACE NAMES IN COUNTY LOUTH
Place
Names of
County
Louth -
Database
click
here.
The
enclosed
information
will be
added to
continuously
as local
place
names are
extracted
from
various
sources.
If you
have any
other
local
names and
know the townland
where
situated
please let me
know.
What's in
a Name?.
The
names of
places
have
evolved in
various
ways, some
from the
nature of
the
terrain,
a local
antiquity
or event, the name
of a person
from the
area or a well known
personality
etc..
A
Drogheda
Independent
newspaper
report,
dated 5
September
1931, on
Drogheda
Corporation
meeting,
relates to
change of
name of
Blackbutt
Lane to
Mount St.
Oliver.
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For
definitions
and
origins of
various
place
names in
County
Louth see:
On
Blackbutt
Lane,
James
Garry (op
cit,
p.72-3)
states, '
"Butts"
was the
area
outside
the town
walls
where
archery
was
practised.
Once an
area of
mud-walled
cabins,
occupied
by
hand-loom
weavers
working in
their own
homes, the
cabins
were
replaced
by 26
single-storey,
red-brick
houses,
which were
built by
the
Corporation
in 1930.
It was
renamed
Mount St
Oliver in
anticipation
of the
canonisation
of St.
Oliver
Plunkett,
which took
place in
1975.'
Change of
Name.
In short
recent legal
provision
for the change
of the name of
the
following
places can
be found
in The
Local
Government
Act, 2001.
In
addition
under The
Official
Languages
Act 2003
(no. 32 of
2003) the
Minister
for
Community,
Rural and Gaeltacht
Affairs
can make
an order
declaring
the Irish
language
version of
a
placename.
The
current
Order
under this
2003 Act
relating
to a
number of
places in
County
Louth is
the
Placenames
(Co.
Louth)
Order
2003.
Under the Local Government Act, 2001 provisions differ as to the type of place (click on place to find further information):
Displaying of Name.
S.197
of the
Local
Government
Act, 2001 provides:
'A local
authority
may cause
the name
of a
street,
place or
area to be
displayed
on a
conspicuous
part of
any
convenient
building,
or other
structure
or land'.
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Louth page
© MP
McConnon,
MC
Research
Service,
Seabank,
Castlebellingham,
Dundalk,
County
Louth,
Ireland.
Last
update 26 June 2004