Publisher's Synopsis
Work for the series »Placenames of the Isle of Man&« is undertaken under the auspices of the Manx Place-Name Survey, set up at the University of Mannheim in 1988. The survey falls into two parts: material collected from a) oral, and b) documentary sources. Place-name material, mostly Manx Gaelic, for the first part, was collected on sound-recordings or in phonetic script 1989-1992 from some 200 informants, almost exclusively from the farming community. The second part contains material drawn from documentary sources of 13th-20th century date, but mostly from 17th-19th centuries.
This is the final volume in the series »Placenames of the Isle of Man&«. Six volumes, based on the Sheadings (districts) of Glenfaba, Michael, Ayre, Garff, Middle and Rushen, are already published. Volume 7 includes the town of Douglas (capital), place-name and field-name addenda, as well as complete indexes of place-name elements, place-names, field-names, and personal names. In addition are the following four articles: »Place-Names and the Physical and Human Geography of the Isle of Man: an Overview&« (Peter Darvey), »Pre-Scandinavian Place-Names in the Isle of Man&« (George Broderick), »The Scandinavian Element in the Place-Names of the Isle of Man&« (Gillian Fellows-Jensen), and »Common Elements in Manx Place-Names&« (George Broderick). To complete the volume are 17 parish maps containing the traditional land divisions of treen and quarterland.
