{"id":1788554,"date":"2020-03-20T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788554"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:17:34","slug":"map-of-common-gaelic-placenames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/map-of-common-gaelic-placenames\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of Common Gaelic Placenames"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phil Taylor\u2019s Map of Common Gaelic Placenames<\/a> applies the Ordnance Survey\u2019s guide to the Gaelic origin of place names<\/a> and places them on early 20th-century OS<\/abbr> maps of Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phil Taylor\u2019s Map of Common Gaelic Placenames applies the Ordnance Survey\u2019s guide to the Gaelic origin of place names and places them on early 20th-century OS maps of Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,692],"tags":[1436,37,71],"class_list":["post-1788554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-linguistics","category-toponyms","tag-gaelic","tag-scotland","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1840588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/a-hand-drawn-map-of-the-british-isles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788554,"position":0},"title":"A Hand-drawn Map of the British Isles","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 May 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Mark Esper Mark Esper spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). 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