Talk:List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
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By just looking at the List of towns in the Republic of Ireland article you can see how many Irish Towns have either short stubs or no article at all. Its a very basic thing - like which is more basic an article on Bosco or Virginia? So im going to start creating new articles and updating existing ones. Only problem is I can't offer that much knowledge other than whats on maps, in the census or easily found on the net for most towns - so I need plenty of help... --CGorman 20:37, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Agreed, but in some cases links may simply need to be updated. It might be a good idea to approach the problem on a county-by-county basis or by significance of town. Also used the [[Category: Towns in the Republic of Ireland]] category for each town. Djegan 20:01, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Initial work
- I've added the [[Category: Towns in the Republic of Ireland]] category to all 'live' links. I focused on my own county first, filling in towns like Delvin, Rochfordbridge, Tyrrellspass etc. (ableit making extensive use of the {{stub}} message!). Next I updated some of the links such as Ashbourne, Mallow, Tipperary etc. Then I picked off a few towns at random filling in basic things like the Irish name, location, main roads, railines, and aminities like castles, golf courses etc. The only problem is, whenever I refer to my map, I spot a reasonably large town thats missing! I'll continue adding little bits over the next few weeks (the fact that I got broadband yesterday will help), but I cannot give that much information on many towns. --CGorman 20:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- Im happy to say all articles at List of towns in the Republic of Ireland now have an article (or at least a short stub) and that they conform to some sort of uniformity. Thanks to Zoney for his help. Anyways, next task is filling in articles for towns still unlisted - (such as those at County Kilkenny and County Cork) and to expand the stubs. --CGorman 19:55, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Expanding the workload
CGorman might be a wee bit upset, but I'm gradually filling out the "List of towns" with more entries, taken from the counties' main towns lists on their pages. I'm fixing up the blue link town articles, but leaving the missing ones missing for now. Some towns are more obscure, but many large ones made their entry onto the page, e.g. Blarney. Finally, I suggest we afterwards turn our attention to the List of towns in Northern Ireland.
If someone could enlighten me as to the Irish for Barleycove (Which I'm not sure counts as a town), I'd be happy.
zoney ♣ talk 10:00, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- CGorman might be a wee bit upset, but I'm gradually filling out the "List of towns" with more entries, taken from the counties' main towns lists on their pages. - well I was going to add those towns to the list aswell anyways... I just had'nt got around to it! Anyways, i'll try and create stubs (with location, irish, and aminities) for those towns... and increasingly villages, soon. For the moment im over at wikibooks... so I probably won't do anything till the weekend. --CGorman 21:01, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- OK, all the red links are gone now - everything has a stub - so now its time to expand the stubs. --CGorman 16:55, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- A lot done, more to do, to copy a phrase :-) I'm sorry I didn't announce this before all those red links were cleared, but I'm actually adding specific categories to the towns now, not just Category:Towns in the Republic of Ireland. There's Category:Towns in Cork for example, eventually I'll have all the counties/towns done. Also, I've only gotten as far as Limerick in copying towns onto the list of towns in the Republic of Ireland page. I'm working down through the counties in the order of the counties template. zoney ♣ talk 20:41, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- Well i'll try and keep up with you in creating new stubs! --CGorman 21:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- Even though zoney is on hiatus and CGorman is more involved with Wikinews than our little world, we've added a whole bunch more town links from the county pages and significant pages of interest. So if anyone wants to take up creating stubs and destubbing existing stubs, adding pictures, infobox, etc. It's all right here! --ℬastique▼talk 12:40, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Expanded articles
A proud moment for me: I just created a stub for Sallins, the only red link on the list I know anything about. I also added it to the todo list for expansion as it's only three lines. Filiocht 12:40, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
I've put some more information into Lucan, Dublin and will add more around Dublin when I see relevance of my knowledge. I also linked some more pre-existing Dublin pages I found into the category Category:Towns and suburbs in Dublin. Should I manually add them to List of towns in the Republic of Ireland also? There's a few towns eg Donnybrook which act as a disambig page as well as having information on the Dublin area, not sure whether to include these or split out the Dublin related info into a separate stub. Jlang 14:01, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Half-finished work
I hope you'll note that I've only gotten as far as "M" in checking articles and adding to the to-do list in the appropriate section. I've also been moving "Townname, Ireland" articles to "Townname, County Countyname" for consistency. Anyone else is free to go through some of the remaining town articles to be checked. zoney ♣ talk 16:12, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- This has been finished for a while. I'm adjusting the to-do list as articles are expanded. I'm keeping the ones which have been worked on already, just to show what has been accomplished. zoney ♣ talk 14:03, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- This is a really great piece of work, Zoney. You've done the country proud. Filiocht 14:29, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Stub for Ireland
Please help changing the {{geo-stub}} tags in these articles to the more useful {{Ireland-geo-stub}} .
If anyone knows how to get a software robot to do this, that would be great too. Change any article with the word Ireland and a {{geo-stub}} tag, then we could revert any incorrect ones (should be very few). Seabhcan 14:04, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- The template {{Ireland-geo-stub}} is in fact a better one to use, as it avoids a redirect ({{Ireland-place-stub}} simply redirects to it. A separate {{NI-geo-stub}} exists for stub articles dealing with the geography of the six counties. Grutness...wha? 03:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] New town in ireland infobox template
Updated 2005.05.23. Please disregard previous information!
Ballina Béal an Átha |
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Town population: | 9,478 (2002) |
Rural population: | 1,087 (2002) |
Elevation: | 7m |
County: | Mayo |
Province: | Connacht |
Hi all... I created an infobox and am currently working on towns in County Mayo. TIt's at Template:Ireland_town_infobox and the format to use it is as follows:
{{ie citytown infobox| town_name = Ballina | Irish_name = Béal an Átha | crest_image = Image:Ballina crest.png | county_name = Mayo | north_coord = 54.1167| west_coord = 9.1667| town_elevation = 7m | pin_coords = left: 90px; top: 37px| irish_grid = G240192 | town_pop = 9,478 (2002) | rural_pop = 1,087 (2002) | }}
If you don't have a town crest, don't leave out the "crest_image" field, just leave it blank, like so:
crest_image = |
--ℬastique▼talk 08:45, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
- I modified the variables with regard to coordinates. Now uses Wiki standard system. --ℬastique▼talk 17:36, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
- I added Irish Grid into the template. Variable "irish_grid"
- Redid the entire template. All towns that used the previous template are now using Template:ie citytown infobox ℬastique▼talk 01:29, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Town populations/Irish 2002 Census
For anyone who is doing a town (or city) article, I've uploaded a list of town population figures, sorted alphabetically, as reported by the 2002 Irish Census. You can find this list here: List of towns in the Republic of Ireland/2002 Census Records
The Original information can be viewed here: Central Statistics Office Ireland
ℬastique▼talk 03:48, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Move/rename page
I suggest the page be moved, as it is basically "places" in the Republic of Ireland, not just towns. It includes cities, villages and parts of cities/suburbs/former towns.
If there is some strict definition of a town in ROI, a seperate sublist should be created.
zoney ♣ talk 15:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Augher
The link to this town goes to the Augher in Co. Tyrone which is in N. Ireland. Is there another Augher? If so there needs to be disabiguation. Peter Clarke 09:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)