Thursday, October 9, 2008

A time and a place name for everything

DESPITE ONLY launching officially on Wednesday, www.Logainm.ie, an online database of close to 100,000 Irish place names, logged 260,000 page views and 30,000 searches in September, without advance publicity.

The website is aimed at students, teachers, journalists, translators and researchers, who need what the site calls the "authoritative" Irish form of place names.

Developed by Fiontar, Dublin City University's Irish-medium teaching and research unit, the project was carried out on behalf of the Place Names Branch of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times

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