The place-names of Decies

By Patrick Power

Book Overview

Place names are memory made visible. Small names, vast human histories. In The place-names of Decies, Power, P. presents an authoritative irish place-name dictionary and local history reference that brings the toponyms of County Waterford into crisp focus. Combining clear linguistic explanation with grounded local detail, the book functions as both a practical toponymy study guide and a compact irish placenames compendium, illuminating geographical name etymology and pointing readers toward celtic language origins. Entries and notes, concise yet rich, make the volume approachable for casual readers tracing the meaning behind a field-name or river, while offering historians and genealogists a reliable reference for place-based inquiry and irish heritage research. For librarians and scholars it is a useful academic research collection item, and for students of language and landscape it supplies steady evidence without academic fog. Beyond utility, the book carries literary and historical significance: Power's Decies study preserves regional vocabulary and local memory at a moment when modern maps and anglicisation were changing Ireland's linguistic map. Its value for nineteenth-century Ireland studies and County Waterford history is lasting, and it remains a touchstone for comparative work in place-name studies. The tone is scholarly but human; the content rewards close study and casual perusal alike, so the volume suits both village shelves and collectors of classic literature and historical works. Useful when walking the landscape with fresh eyes, it invites readers to hear place-names as the living speech of a long-lived community. Researchers compiling family histories or tracing social change will appreciate the steadiness of its entries; curators and academic cataloguers will find it a dependable regional resource. A quietly indispensable regional handbook indeed. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354151248
• ISBN13: 9789354151248
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"