The Medieval Rural Settlement Project

The Medieval Rural Settlement Project commenced in 2002 to consider the nature of the archaeological landscape associated with rural Ireland in the period c. 1100-1650 AD. The Project has four principal modules, each of which will result in a significant monograph publication. The modules were chosen to represent a cross-section of the diverse…

Map of woodland name elements based on townland names containing ‘wood’, ‘park’, and ‘kill’.

Créateur: The Discovery Programme

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The kill element does not distinguish whether the reference is to a church or to a wood, but Joyce estimated that c.20 per cent of -kil- names in Ireland derive from woodlands.

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