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Contents 1 Category: Gaeltacht places 2 Map 3 Towns and Villages 4 Ráth Cairn

[edit] Category: Gaeltacht places

I have started a new category which will include all places in the Gaeltacht. This is Category:Gaeltacht places. As part of this process I have started new article on Dunquin and Ráth Cairn.

[edit] Map

The map shown in the article is extremely inaccurate. Most Gaeltacht areas are shown as being much smaller than they actually are and Clear Island in Co. Cork and Ring in Waterford have been completely omitted.

Alan, Dublin

Ok, then I'll remove the map for now. Do you have any idea where we can get a better one? --Khoikhoi 05:54, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

We need to be very careful not to include the map on Údarás na Gaeltachta's website which is as inaccurate as that first put up in the Wikipedia article and subsequently removed. I e-mailed ÚnaG about their inaccurate map but received no reply. Reg Hindley used an official map in his book Death of the Irish Language and if anyone had a copy of it, it could be scanned in. The last changes to Gaeltacht boundaries were made in 1974 when Clochán-Bréanann and part of West Muskerry previously in the Galltacht were included in the Gaeltacht.

Alan, Dublin

[edit] Towns and Villages

Might a List of places in the Gaeltacht or similar be better to the recent addition of towns and villages? Djegan 20:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ráth Cairn

Are we sure the English spelling is "Rathcarne", the most recent ordance survey map uses "Rathcarran", neither are particularily popular on an internet search but getting it right is not bad either (before creating a redirect)? Djegan 17:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, they both seem to be in use, but the Irish name Ráth Cairn (which also has a variant Ráth Chairn) seems to be most common, even on websites written in English. The article is already at Ráth Cairn, so I'll just set redirects from all three of Rathcarne, Rathcarran, and Ráth Chairn. —Angr 18:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm the one who made the list of Gaeltacht-places and I thought about using Ráth Cairn in the first place, and would have done if I knew there was already an article under that name. JdeJ 19:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I didn't know either until I googled for "Ráth Cairn" and found ga:Ráth Cairn that way, and when I went there, I saw it was linked to Ráth Cairn here at en. —Angr 20:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)