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Place-names, languages, maps. Alts: @auldnorse & @GallowaScots
Orkney
Joined January 2019
This map shows 5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century. 929 of these are from Carrick's nine parishes.
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RT @arranlouise: I said I was going to make my own Christmas cards this year but I never got round to it. So here's the photo I was going t….
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RT @totheobelisk: Thanks to everyone who's followed this micro-blog about #HilltopMonuments and other interesting things in the landscape.….
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Linktree. Make your link do more.
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My accent making the crossword harder than it needs to be:. When speaking, noticed a creepy-crawly (6). "spider" and "spied a" don't sound the same for me.
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RT @DrFrancisYoung: My next book Pre-Christian Baltic Religion and Belief (coming April 2025 from @ArcHumanities) is now available to pre-o….
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The Baltic peoples of Prussia, Lithuania, and Latvia were among the last in Europe to be Christianized. In spite of their survival (in some cases) as late as...
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If you're looking for an equivalent of Excel's IFERROR function in QGIS, it's try
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Awa’ in France, across the wave,.The wee lichts burn on ilka grave,.An’ you an’ me their lowe hae seen—.Ye’ll mebbe hae yer Hallowe’en.Yont, whaur ye’re lyin’ wi’ the lave.
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479. Minnigaff.—If a young unmarried woman eats on Hallowe’en a whole herring, i.e., with scales, bones, entrails, and fins, without speaking a word, and then goes to bed also without speaking, she will see in a dream the man that is to be her husband.
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659. Dalry.—On Halloweven the fairies rode on cats at the Holme Glen, Dalry. On that night considerate housekeepers shut up their cats, to prevent them from being laid hold of by the fairies.
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Search for 'Halloween' in here for lots of auld Galloway customs.
Walter Gregor's 'Folklore in Galloway' is now live. A collection of 740 items of folklore, giving an incredible insight into Galloway life and language at the end of the 19th century.
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RT @dgplacenames: The Packman's Grave - a lost place-name in Wigtownshire and a story fit for Hallowe'en:."Even until lately, people imagin….
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Ninety nine times out of a hundred, there is a grizzly story behind place-names which contain CHAPMAN ‘pedlar’ or PACKMAN ‘a man who carries wares or merchandise in a pack; chiefl…
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RT @dgplacenames: Kirkbean Fairy Procession. On Hallowe'en, fairies beating drums would pass through Prestonmill on their way to Hangman Hi….
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RT @dgplacenames: Seals Cave, Kirkmaiden .William Todd's Statistical Account of the parish (1854) records that it is "much frequented by se….
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The Google Sheets to JSON extension in very handy.
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Easily download your Google Sheets data as JSON files. Perfect for integrating with other applications or storing your data in a…
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All day thinking about entries for The Sunday Times clue writing contest
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