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Knowledge of the real or putative history of local places formed an important part of the education of the elite in ancient Ireland. This formed part of the training of the military, for whom a knowledge of the landscape was essential. It was also essential knowledge for the bardic caste, who were
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poets may have invented names for places when the name of a place, if it had one, was not known to them. A detailed analysis points to a pre-Christian origin for most of the tales. For example, many placenames appear which had fallen out of use by the 5th century A.D., when Irish written records
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as well as a form of entertainment. They are far from an accurate history of how places came to be named. Many of the explanations given are made to fit the name and not the other way around, especially in the many cases where a place was much older than the
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suggesting a date before ~610 AD and the Battle of Knocklong. Christian references, and the Graeco-Roman myths and tales of Pagan atrocity associated with that influence are also mostly absent.
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expected to recite poems answering questions on place name origins as part of their professional duties. An early example of this are the tales about
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which date from at least as early as 750, where the poet Forgoll is asked to recite the lore of different places. Consequently, the
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may well have grown by accretion from local texts compiled in schools as a way of teaching about places in their area.
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comprises about 176 poems plus a number of prose commentaries and independent prose tales (the so-called "prose
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Westropp, T. J. (31 March 1899), "Notes and Folklore from the Rennes Copy of the "Dindsenchas"",
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spoken at the time of the poems' composition. In other cases, the
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Although they are known today from these written sources, the
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The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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There was also an Irish- and English-language journal
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stories are also incorporated into saga texts such as
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Second Supplement, Extracts from the Book of Leinster
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Dindshenchas
modern Irish
topography
onomastic
early Irish literature
Irish mythology
recensions
Book of Leinster
TĂĄin BĂł CĂșailnge
Acallam na SenĂłrach
oral literature
mnemonic aid
Middle Irish
County Clare
Connaught
MongĂĄn mac FĂ­achnai
Edward Gwynn
Lebor na hUidre
Book of Leinster
Book of Ballymote
Great Book of Lecan
Yellow Book of Lecan
Gwynn, Edward
The Metrical Dindshenchas Part 1
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The Metrical Dindshenchas Part 2
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The Metrical Dindshenchas Part 3

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