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Spelling County Londonderry in other languages

Karen Joyce Lowe
Karen Joyce Lowe ✭
March 23, 2023 edited March 23, 2023 in Social Groups

I was noticing that FamilySearch uses name variants for this county:

EN: County Londonderry

GD: Coontie Lunnonderrie

GA: Contae Dhoire

Is it safe to assume that Contae Londaindhoire is a no-go?


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It certainly doesn't appear as an option in the place names API:

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List of counties in Irish Gaelic beginning with the letter L


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  • Shannon Potter Wilcox
    Shannon Potter Wilcox ✭✭✭✭
    March 24, 2023 edited March 24, 2023

    @Karen Joyce Lowe you are correct that Contae Londaindhoire is not a place. When using google it comes up as County Londonderry and when searching it on FamilySearch Wiki there is no such place with that name. If you are researching Irish ancestors, I would invite you to join the  IRELAND RESEARCH group as we have County links to Londonderry that might be helpful to you.

    Regards,

    Shannon

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  • Adrian Bruce1
    Adrian Bruce1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 26, 2023

    I'd just like to add that "Coontie Lunnonderrie" should not be recorded as a "Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic (gd)" variant. As Wikipedia will confirm, it's Ulster-Scots which is not a Gaelic language at all but part of the family of Anglo-Saxon languages. Oddly, that same name ("Coontie Lunnonderrie") is also in as "sco", which I'm guessing is Scots (another member of the family of Anglo-Saxon languages). I have no idea what the genuine Scots Gaelic version of the name is.

    Anyone who wants to use the Ulster-Scots placenames is welcome to submit the change.

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