Spelling County Londonderry in other languages

Karen Joyce Lowe

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?

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

Shannon Potter Wilcox

@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

Adrian Bruce1

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.