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Dear Alisdair Not sure if I am about to help or hinder, but I think that the traditional story regarding how Loughmoe was acquired by the Purcel's can be...
Alasdair this was the discussion I found with local anecdotes on it, including photos of sign posts! Simon http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php? ...
Dear Keith, Yes, the value of the story is more in the lexical information it presents. Some toponyms are explained by using words that are similar in form to...
Dear Alasdair Agreed, although if a traditional tale is likely to be right it can provide pointers. Anyway, as I was in the NLS this morning and had time on my...
Dear Keith, I'm glad you know your way around those records. I did get the reference online and intended to go in and have a look but I can safely say that it...
Dear Alasdair Well I don't know my way around the records quick enough not to have an afterthought. I also notice that I cannot spell 'check' although I was...
Dear Keith, You're right to bring up the French and Latin. The best spelling as far as the vowels of first syllable are concerned is the 'Luaghma' form found...
Another spelling - anglicized? What do you think of the 'n' - a transcription error? I don't have access to the original source, just this snippet. - Karen ...
Dear Karen, Scribes are prone to mixing up their M 'n' Ns. Even so, Loughney is an alternative spelling for Lough Neagh. I wonder if Loughmay was getting...
Not just scribes but transcribers reading errors not to mention re reading the transcript and setting it up for printing and of course the ever present 'proof...
A chàirdean, Just forwarding the contents of an e-mail I received today. Music Network is inviting venues, promoters, musicians, ensembles and community...
Dear Simon, I haven't seen pictures of any other roundels, I'm afraid, being entirely reliant on the online photographs such as those at the web addresses I...
Dear Simon, I am not a fan of drawing barlines across the knotwork carved into standing stones myself either. If you draw barlines wherever you want over a...
The artist in me says that the II symbol is a space to separate the grounps of I's and O's so that attention isn't drawn to the pattern. That is, a different...
Dear Peter, That's a clever idea that would deal with the question of why the II and O symbols aren't doubled up and why the II symbols are almost always kept...
Notice the patterns with this interpretation, the spaces are to point out the 1101 pattern similar to Bryt Odidawg, 0010 0010 1101 1101: 101 1101 0 1101 0 1010...
I came across this very interesting recording of Irish piper James C. McAuliffe - I had not heard his stuff before. The thing I noticed was his use of the...
Dear Simon, Well done for spotting that. It's lovely that so much of this stuff is online and allowed to influence people. I liked the tale of the gatling...
Dear Simon, It appears your instincts about the roundel markings not constituting music may be founded. In a previous message to the group, I have already...
Thanks for this useful analysis Alasdair. The main thing I have felt is missing from this whole subject is a balanced analysis of the possibilities. Briefly,...
Dear Simon, I see this design as a kind of European 'magic circle' and I'm not much of a fan of a lot of attempted musical steganography. On the other hand,...
It seems that the papers of Dr James MacDonnell are curently on deposit among the private papers collections in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland...
Thanks for posting this, Keith. This is enormously helpful. I was looking for his papers. I may end up going over there to look up these papers sometime...
A chàirdean cḥir, Meala-nàidheachd air na Heymanns a tha an diugh a' cuimhneachadh an 33mh ceann-bliadhna p̣saidh aca. Bidh iad cuideachd a' frithealadh...
