Dataset for "Canúint na Gaeilge i nDeisceart Laighean: an fhianaise ainmeolaíochta" [The dialect of Irish in South Leinster: the onomastic evidence]

This corpus contains a complete list of transliterated forms of townland names, and their recommended Irish language forms, from Counties Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow for the purpose of gleaning dialectal evidence.

This toponymic dataset is a collection of Irish townland names from Counties Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wexford (South Leinster). The corpus consists of official Irish language forms (Baile fearainn), their anglicized/transliterated forms (Townland), and the associated Parish (Paróiste) from each county. Townlands which were coined in English, and were then later translated to Irish by An Brainse Logainmneacha, are not included in the dataset. Although fundamentally qualitative, the data is highly suited for quantitative analysis to dissect and analyze the historical linguistic features of the Irish language preserved in the names.

The dataset was compiled during the latter part of 2020 by consulting the official Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). This dataset is directly associated with the doctoral thesis: ‘Canúint na Gaeilge i nDeisceart Laighean: an fhianaise ainmeolaíochta (‘The dialect of Irish in South Leinster: the onomastic evidence’) by AM Jowett, published in December 2025.

As the original data is publicly available on logainm.ie, this derived dataset is considered open for public use and modification. Researchers are strongly encouraged to provide proper attribution to both the source (logainm.ie) and the compiler (A M Jowett) when utilizing the data.

This resource would be of interest to Linguists and/or Celtic Scholars (for etymology and phonetics), historians and genealogists (for local history research), and possibly to GIS Professionals or Digital Humanities Researchers who require authoritative mappings of Irish place names for cartography and large-scale textual analysis.