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An important element in the Locus project is publishing the Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames and ancillary publications. These are available for purchase from the directly or through the online shop of the Royal Irish Academy.
Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames
Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 1 [Names in A-] / Fascúl 1 [Ainmneacha in A-] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2003) xxxiv + 172pp. ISBN: 1-870166-70-1. Reprinted (with addenda and corrigenda) in April 2007.
Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 2 [Names in B-] / Fascúl 2 [Ainmneacha i B-] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2005) xxxii + 258pp. ISBN: 1-870166-71-X.
Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 3 / Fascúl 3 [C-Ceall Fhursa] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2008) xxxii + 191pp. ISBN: 1-870-16672-8.
Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 4 / Fascúl 4 [Ceall Ghabhann-Cláiríne] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2011) xxxiv + 165 pp. ISBN: 1-870-16673-6.
Pádraig Ó Riain, †Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 5 / Fascúl 5 [Clais an Chairn-Cnucha] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2013) xxxvii + 200pp. ISBN: 978-0-9575661-0-1.
Pádraig Ó Riain, Kevin Murray and Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 6 / Fascúl 6 [Cóbh-Cutloch] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2016) xxxvii + 199pp. ISBN: 978-0-9575661-6-3. .
Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Pádraig Ó Riain, and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 7 / Fascúl 7 [D-Drongán] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2018) xxxvii + 148pp. ISBN: 978-1-9998047-2-5. .
Pádraig Ó Riain, Kevin Murray and Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 8 / Fascúl 8 [Druach-Duthaire] (Irish Texts Society, London, 2020) xxxvii + 156pp. ISBN: 978-1-9998047-7-0. .
Pádraig Ó Riain, Kevin Murray and Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 9 / Fascúl 9 [ -íǰܾԲ (Irish Texts Society, London, 2024) xxxvii + 166pp. ISBN: 978-1-9169300-4-9. .
Related Publications
Donna Thornton and Kevin Murray, Bibliography of Publications on Irish Placenames, Irish Texts Society: Subsidiary Series 22 (London, 2011) xviii + 297 pp. ISBN: 978-1-870166-80-5.
Kevin Murray and Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum: Reconsiderations, Irish Texts Society: Subsidiary Series 23 (London, 2011) xi + 178 pp. ISBN: 978-1-870166-68-X.
Ancillary Publications
To be included shortly.