dgplacenames (now in Orkney)
@dgplacenames.bsky.social
Place-names, maps, languages. dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
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This map shows 5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century. 929 of these are from Carrick's nine parishes.
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
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Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
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I had a great time giving this talk yesterday! And it's already available to watch in YouTube! Huge thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for having me!
Last night's @thinkuhi.bsky.social excellent Public Seminar by Tom Fairfax is now online. Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga
youtu.be/r2Tgd4HBkzI
youtu.be/r2Tgd4HBkzI
Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga Saga by Tom Fairfax
YouTube video by UHI Institute for Northern Studies
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I had a great time giving this talk yesterday! And it's already available to watch in YouTube! Huge thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for having me!
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"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
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The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
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Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
That's my georeferenced map viewer up and running
maps.cmackenzie.net/viewer.html#...
maps.cmackenzie.net/viewer.html#...
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
That's my georeferenced map viewer up and running
maps.cmackenzie.net/viewer.html#...
maps.cmackenzie.net/viewer.html#...
"Though Duck and Bloomfield are both—I’m sorry to say—bad, derivative poets, two of the group are not: Robert Burns, who avoids the odour of staleness by writing in his own synthetic Scots dialect (and also by being a genius), and Clare, although he is not so clear cut a case as Burns."
Longblog on John Clare's 1820s poem "The Mores": profadamroberts.substack.com/p/john-clare...
John Clare, ‘The Mores’ (1825)
Enclosed and Unenclosed
profadamroberts.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Though Duck and Bloomfield are both—I’m sorry to say—bad, derivative poets, two of the group are not: Robert Burns, who avoids the odour of staleness by writing in his own synthetic Scots dialect (and also by being a genius), and Clare, although he is not so clear cut a case as Burns."
Being able to control opacity lets you compare names on the overlay map and the base layer. Here you can see Hap of Myre on the esate plan and Bay of Myre on the OS 1st ed
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Being able to control opacity lets you compare names on the overlay map and the base layer. Here you can see Hap of Myre on the esate plan and Bay of Myre on the OS 1st ed
Managed to link up Allmaps and Recogito
Added labelled polygons to the map using Recogito, georeferenced the map with Allmaps, and used the Allmaps OpenLayers plugin to warp both the image and the transcription polygon.
Not bad for a one day's vibe coding
Added labelled polygons to the map using Recogito, georeferenced the map with Allmaps, and used the Allmaps OpenLayers plugin to warp both the image and the transcription polygon.
Not bad for a one day's vibe coding
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Managed to link up Allmaps and Recogito
Added labelled polygons to the map using Recogito, georeferenced the map with Allmaps, and used the Allmaps OpenLayers plugin to warp both the image and the transcription polygon.
Not bad for a one day's vibe coding
Added labelled polygons to the map using Recogito, georeferenced the map with Allmaps, and used the Allmaps OpenLayers plugin to warp both the image and the transcription polygon.
Not bad for a one day's vibe coding
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The fourth one, "Hail in St. Mary's", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, kviðuháttr .
alliteration.net/poetry/hail-in-st-marys/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
alliteration.net/poetry/hail-in-st-marys/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
Hail in St Mary’s, a poem in alliterative verse by Colin Mackenzy
The goose-gate’s / gairies loudly / skailt their scree, / scarrach-snell an / cranreuch bricht.
alliteration.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The fourth one, "Hail in St. Mary's", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, kviðuháttr .
alliteration.net/poetry/hail-in-st-marys/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
alliteration.net/poetry/hail-in-st-marys/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
Been georeferencing maps from the NLS on Allmaps. Can now link those annotations up to a viewer where you can change background layers. Next challenge is to link up annotations made using Recogito.
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Been georeferencing maps from the NLS on Allmaps. Can now link those annotations up to a viewer where you can change background layers. Next challenge is to link up annotations made using Recogito.
A rare crossover of two of my interests: OpenStreetMap and Netflix Christmas films
Another film, another unattributed use of @openstreetmap.bsky.social. This is the fourth film that I’ve seen this year do this and the latest culprit is this Christmas @netflix.com romcom named Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Films
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Films
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A rare crossover of two of my interests: OpenStreetMap and Netflix Christmas films
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A simple little hack for laundering Ordnance Survey Grid References so as to get to locations on Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, and others which have no truck with OSGR, is to search in Geograph.org.uk and use its excellent mapping links page.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A simple little hack for laundering Ordnance Survey Grid References so as to get to locations on Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, and others which have no truck with OSGR, is to search in Geograph.org.uk and use its excellent mapping links page.
Don't have the words to convey how cool this is
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Don't have the words to convey how cool this is
Fulfilled my ambition tonight of speaking at an event with a raffle.
Also great to speak to an audience that brings along 18th estate maps
Also great to speak to an audience that brings along 18th estate maps
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Fulfilled my ambition tonight of speaking at an event with a raffle.
Also great to speak to an audience that brings along 18th estate maps
Also great to speak to an audience that brings along 18th estate maps
Folk at tonight's talk very motivated to beat Harray
How we compare
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Folk at tonight's talk very motivated to beat Harray
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Glaschu
A growing record of Gaelic in Glasgow
glaschu.net
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
New web map roughed out
Should be good to go live on Thursday
Should be good to go live on Thursday
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
New web map roughed out
Should be good to go live on Thursday
Should be good to go live on Thursday
An anthropotoponym is a place-name derived from the name of a person, like Herston (from Hǫrðr)
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An anthropotoponym is a place-name derived from the name of a person, like Herston (from Hǫrðr)
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
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Is this a new version of the Parish Cup?
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Is this a new version of the Parish Cup?