Changelog

1. 11 September 2026 · 13 changes

   • A records page for each of the 32 counties, with its own census and Griffith's links, its surnames, and the different archives the six counties use
   • How to read a map of old Ireland, added to the quiz — and the quiz no longer offers two identical maps as different answers
   • The ogham page now explains the alphabet properly: how the four aicmí work, that nobody agrees where it came from, and that the tree names are centuries younger than the stones
   • Why the letters sound the way they do, explained on 62 name pages instead of 27
   • Seventeen women's names added, mostly from the mythology — Ériu, Banba and Fódla, the three the country is named for, had no page between them
   • And the other eight, so no county is down to a single town — 60 towns at the start of the day, 93 at the end
   • Towns for the counties that had only their county town: Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare and Dublin
   • Women and people who held no land added to the remaining eras — 25 of the 111 named figures are women now, up from 9 of 92
   • The tip jar now tells you what it will look like on your bank statement
   • Readers who send something in are now named on the page they improved, not only on the colophon
   • Arlia — a name cut once into a slab at Clonmacnoise, meaning unknown, added after Arlía Smiley produced the catalogue reference that proved me wrong to doubt it
   • The tip jar moved to Buy Me a Coffee, so support is not split across two services
   • Culloty — Ó Codlata, 'one who sleeps', added after Paul Culloty wrote in about a rare Kerry name

2. 10 September 2026 · 6 changes

   • A design pass: the emoji icons gone, the panels quieter, and two layout bugs fixed that nobody had reported
   • All 27 era summaries rewritten to read less flatly — same facts, every date checked against the old wording
   • Ten more people on the era pages: women, and those who never held land — after a reader asked that the ones in the background not be forgotten
   • The About page now speaks in Diaz's own voice, and says plainly who made this and why
   • A long editing pass on the punctuation, after readers said the writing felt machine-made
   • The map now says Derry / Londonderry, and names the Eóganachta who held Munster until about 1000 — both after readers wrote in

3. 8 September 2026 · 9 changes

   • The last six counties get their folklore: all 32 now carry both a place and a story
   • Every county now has something on the Hidden Ireland and Myths layers — u/FierceHoarder said Laois looked bare, and eleven others were worse
   • The timeline moved above the map, so it stops shifting under your thumb — u/stevenmc and u/Silver_Response4707 both reported the same jump
   • A web admin at /admin/, designed around the two findings
   • The queue moves to GitHub issues, and drops the contact details
   • Queue Reddit suggestions alongside form submissions
   • Settlements of the age: a map layer that follows the slider
   • Scaffold a clans.js entry from an accepted surname suggestion
   • A triage queue for form submissions, not a second inbox

4. 7 September 2026 · 25 changes

   • All seven readers on the colophon, not four
   • Credit u/CuAnnan on the colophon, for both of his corrections
   • Brigid: the evidence is not thin, and the page said it was
   • Say on the colophon that the site is written with AI
   • Changelog: credit the four readers still missing from it
   • A speed control for the timeline, because u/bill_klondike said it moved faster than the text could be read — and a St Brigid's Day to stand beside Patrick's, because u/CuAnnan said her church was every bit as important
   • The Famine page now says what was decided, not only how many died — after u/YoIronFistBro said it read as a natural disaster
   • The timeline scale was lying about where you were — u/worktemp had the handle at 1845 and the page reading 1474
   • County borders now drawn as firmly as they deserve: dashed before 1169, firm from 1610, after u/Newc04 said modern borders on a 6th-century map were odd
   • What the county borders actually mean, said at the map — and worded differently for each age, after u/Newc04 questioned them
   • McNelis — Mac Niallais, added after Patrick Mc Nelis wrote in to say a Donegal name was missing
   • The colophon now thanks the readers who improved the site, by name
   • The map key moved under the map — u/antipositron pointed out on Reddit that it was a long scroll away on a phone
   • A tip jar, for anyone who would like to help with the server bill
   • Twenty surnames given a real story, from Woulfe
   • Every surname page now shows what the name is made of, and whether it is Irish
   • Ogham stones: the oldest writing in Ireland, and where it still stands
   • A proper preview picture when you share a page
   • Clearer titles and summaries on every name and surname page
   • Why an Irish name sounds the way it does, explained on 27 name pages
   • Is your surname Irish? Five honest answers, not one flattering one
   • The 32 counties page rebuilt — how many, which are where, and the largest and smallest
   • Irish surnames in English: read Ó Dorchaidhe off a gravestone and find Darcy
   • The four provinces — Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connacht, a page each
   • The colophon now opens with the person who made the site, not the software

5. 6 September 2026 · 14 changes

   • A changelog and a colophon: what changed, and what it is built on
   • Hear it spoken: 578 Irish words, names and places read aloud
   • The machinery for spoken Irish
   • Town names in Irish, and what each one meant before it was a town
   • The 32 counties in Irish — the first page built from what people actually search for
   • Irish traditional music: the instruments, the tunes, the session
   • Irish mythology: the four cycles
   • Surname: McGale
   • The register of names, Bloomsday, Reek Sunday, the national symbols and the placename elements
   • The monuments of Ireland: round towers, high crosses, tombs, dolmens, stone circles, holy wells
   • Family crests, honestly; and how to actually trace Irish ancestors
   • A real page for a wrong address — the site had been answering every one with the homepage
   • Every list page now says something about each entry, not just its name
   • Surname origin pages get their story

6. 5 September 2026 · 1 change

   • A second pass on titles, descriptions and publication dates

7. 4 September 2026 · 16 changes

   • Photographs for Wren Day; none for Nollaig na mBan, and it says why
   • Wren Day and Nollaig na mBan get their own pages
   • St Patrick's Day: the day itself, and where each bit of it came from
   • Blessings and sayings get their own pages
   • Castles: 354 of them, mapped, county by county
   • Names: 68 more, from Woulfe by way of Wikipedia's list
   • Names: a pronunciation guide, and six ways into the list
   • Review the homeland counties of the 77 new surnames
   • Surnames: 77 more names, and six ways into them
   • Photographs: 194 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
   • Irish words, blessings and proverbs
   • Towns and cities: 60 places across all 32 counties
   • Saints and the Irish year
   • Dropped the required citation on the corrections form — it was turning away people with real family knowledge
   • Site-wide search
   • Ogham writer, and visitor suggestions for names, surnames and features

8. 3 September 2026 · 2 changes

   • Social-preview cards for all 140 Irish name pages
   • Irish first names: 140 name pages with pronunciation, meaning and story

9. 2 September 2026 · 18 changes

   • 26 more surnames, 5 events and 40 placenames
   • Famine map, chronicle page, era FAQs, HowTo schema
   • Wire corrections form to Sevenoways Forms backend
   • Analytics behind a consent banner, and a privacy page that explains it
   • Made legible to search engines and to AI assistants
   • Díaz — the first “New Irish” name in the surname book
   • Add Watters to the clan book; non-Wikipedia source links on clan cards
   • Contact address hello@myireland.ie for corrections, About and footer
   • Every borrowed line attributed, every claim given its source
   • Clan pages, A-Z index, social preview cards, richer share text
   • Add Forde and Jenkins to the clan book; source links on clan cards
   • An Ghaeilge — the interface in Irish
   • The records hub, and a way to tell us when we get something wrong
   • Diaspora trails page
   • The placename decoder, and a guess-the-age quiz
   • On This Day, and two new map layers: Hidden Ireland and the myths
   • A page for every era and every one of the 32 counties
   • The atlas goes live — 10,000 years of Irish history on one timeline

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