https://myireland.ie/changelog/ New pages, new data and corrections on myireland.ie, the atlas of Irish history. en-ie https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-16 myireland-changelog-2026-10-16 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>St Patrick's Day: what is known, the disputed firsts, 1930s accounts; Irish wedding customs</li><li>Famous people with this name, on 103 first-name pages</li><li>Which county is my surname from? finder; searchable English–Irish surname lists</li><li>Counties in Irish: say-it audio, printable list, quiz and a new FAQ</li><li>Name and surname pages answer the searches people make; A–Z indexes; 'strong' names</li><li>Record site searches (with consent) to find what readers are missing</li><li>New pages: famous emigrants, lighthouse keepers, oldest pubs, Easter; St Brigid's Day expanded</li><li>Usability fixes from the October design review</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-12 myireland-changelog-2026-10-12 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Carndonagh stones: the cross and pillars stand by the road, not in the churchyard</li><li>Nine new pages: royal sites, the five roads of Tara, the First and Second World Wars, common townland names, townland records, film locations, the harpers, rugby and soccer</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-11 myireland-changelog-2026-10-11 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Ten new pages: 1798 by county, the plantations, the Penal Laws, when each county was created, county coats of arms, newspapers by founding year, GAA history, Martello towers, observatories, Famine relief</li><li>Fixes from the places and culture audit</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-10 myireland-changelog-2026-10-10 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Fix a quote mark that broke the build</li><li>Fixes from an independent fact audit of the new pages</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-09 myireland-changelog-2026-10-09 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Eighteen new pages: surnames by county, Famine memorials, the Irish in the American Civil War, abbeys, pilgrim paths, Brehon law, Irish dance, 1916, revolution by county, history myths, the Aran jumper, food, whiskey, lost animals, wildlife, emigrant ships, harbours and boats, crafts; Christmas expanded; Clare bear date corrected</li><li>Local press emails for 13–15 October</li><li>Scheduled sending for press emails, with catch-up and a sent log</li><li>Ringforts, megalithic tombs, crannógs, a heritage day-out planner, Irish money, abandoned islands, big houses burned, caves and waterfalls, writers, and every county nickname</li><li>Halloween: the early Irish tales, more customs, and 1930s Schools' Collection stories</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-02 myireland-changelog-2026-10-02 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Sixteen new pages: Mass rocks, ogham stones, sweathouses, cillíní, round towers, high crosses, canals, lifeboats, bogs, trees, inventions, women and schools history</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-10-01 myireland-changelog-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Fixes from an independent re-check of the new surnames and names</li><li>Pattern days, place names of foreign origin, Irish speakers since 1851, and an answer for every surname</li><li>111 more surnames, 87 first names and 94 towns, all sourced</li><li>Blessings, proverbs and St Patrick, strengthened for March</li><li>Irish history month by month; make the build swap reliable on Windows</li><li>Download the data: twelve datasets as CSV</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-29 myireland-changelog-2026-09-29 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>County pages: link to the 1930s Schools' Collection folklore</li><li>How we check facts, with a public corrections log</li><li>Press page: iframe embeds now work too</li><li>Script embed for county fact cards</li><li>Press page: hold the embed code until the server allows framing; draft pitches</li><li>A press page, and embeddable charts</li><li>Printable one-page county sheets</li><li>Link the placename decoder and townland search; an RSS feed of what's new</li><li>Speed and accessibility pass</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-28 myireland-changelog-2026-09-28 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Refresh scripts for the yearly datasets; fix a note on the monuments page</li><li>A new quiz: How well do you know Ireland?</li><li>Atlas heritage map: all 3,000 holy wells, plus battles and shipwrecks</li><li>Town pages: population at recent censuses</li><li>Final accuracy pass: ogham, myths, music, festivals, provinces, heraldry, diaspora, records</li><li>Townland search, county comparison and an Explore hub</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-27 myireland-changelog-2026-09-27 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Surnames: corrections from a check against Woulfe</li><li>Home page: place name of the day</li><li>Workhouses page: famine graves in the monuments record</li><li>Historic buildings, award beaches and Irish-medium secondary schools</li><li>Holy wells: all 3,032 in the national record</li><li>Link sweep: drop links to Wikipedia articles that don't exist</li><li>Placenames and monument pages: corrections from a source check</li><li>Irish in the six counties: Northern Ireland census 2021</li><li>Monuments by county: Northern Ireland too</li><li>Railway stations, county by county</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-26 myireland-changelog-2026-09-26 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Weather records, and Irish-medium primary schools</li><li>Town pages: twin towns</li><li>Every recorded monument, county by county</li><li>Baronies page: every civil parish, county by county</li><li>Customs, words, facts and names: corrections from a source check</li><li>Timeline and eras: corrections from a source check</li><li>Battles and sieges in Ireland, to 1923</li><li>Emigration by decade, and the national parks</li><li>Shipwrecks of Ireland</li><li>The Gaeltacht in numbers</li><li>Ireland's Olympic medals: every medallist since 1928</li><li>Towns: corrections from a source check</li><li>Counties, nicknames and symbols: corrections from a source check</li><li>Baronies and townlands: every barony, and townland counts by county</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-25 myireland-changelog-2026-09-25 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Placename elements: corrections from a check against Joyce</li><li>First names and saints: corrections from a source check</li><li>Myths: corrections from a source check</li><li>Irish place names around the world</li><li>The workhouses of Ireland: all 163 poor law unions by county</li><li>Ireland's rivers and loughs, with their Irish names</li><li>Irish elections since 1922: every Dáil general election and presidential election</li><li>Related pages: saints list their holy wells; surnames link their counties, towns and castles</li><li>County pages: the at-a-glance panel now links Irish speakers, highest point, All-Irelands, castles, holy wells, people and UNESCO sites</li><li>The highest point in every county, with its Irish name</li><li>Presidential elections: 1945 and 1990 first-preference figures, and the transfers that decided them</li><li>Share cards for the GAA, Nobel and UNESCO pages</li><li>Presidents and Taoisigh: every presidential election from 1938 to 2025</li><li>Born in each county: up to 30 people per county (946 in all)</li><li>Ireland's UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and the four on the tentative list</li><li>Link check: 22 broken Wikipedia links and 6 dead external links fixed</li><li>Ireland's Nobel laureates: all eleven, from Yeats to Campbell</li><li>Irish speakers by county, Census 2022</li><li>All-Ireland titles by county: every hurling and football win, with the years</li><li>Surname audit: 271 of 288 names now rest on Woulfe, and unsourced claims are gone</li><li>Surname pages list notable people of the name, and the county each was born in</li><li>The atlas gains a castles, holy wells and lighthouses layer</li><li>Presidents and Taoisigh of Ireland: every head of state and government since 1919</li><li>Ireland's islands, census by census: 131 islands from 1841, and the 45 that emptied</li><li>Words English took from Irish: 22 more, from boreen to turlough</li><li>Pages print cleanly: no menus or buttons, links spelled out, every section open</li><li>This day: the saints' feast days, month by month</li><li>Lighthouses of Ireland: 120 lights, oldest first</li><li>Every town's Irish name can now be heard</li><li>Thirty more surnames from Woulfe</li><li>Diaspora: the ports they left from, as the town histories record them</li><li>Holy wells of Ireland: 754 wells, county by county, with their saints</li><li>Castles by century: 108 castles in the order they were built</li><li>Town pages link their official Irish name record on Logainm.ie</li><li>Born in each county: notable people for all 32, and their birthdays on This Day</li><li>This day in Irish history: 75 dated turning points through the calendar</li><li>Town histories in the site's own words, for 93 towns</li><li>Thirty-two more surnames from Woulfe, and a correction pass on the last batch</li><li>County histories in the site's own words, for all 32 counties</li><li>Population 1821 to today: every county, every census, and which came back</li><li>Every page now lists its sources, county and era pages included, and says when it was last updated</li><li>Every county page now tells the county's story — how it was shired, who held it, what the land is like — and lists its hidden places</li><li>Every county page now has its population at the latest census, what its Irish name means, its size and county town, what the Famine took, and its towns, saints, legends and first names</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-24 myireland-changelog-2026-09-24 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Kelly, O'Neill, Byrne, Doherty, Maguire and seven more surnames now tell the whole story: which families bore the name, where, and what became of them</li><li>Every era and county page now points to the facts that belong with it, and the myth pages to the gods and the women warriors</li><li>Royal sites and hillforts: Tara, Emain Macha, Cruachan and Dun Ailinne</li><li>Town pages answer 'X in Irish', and a page for the cities</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-20 myireland-changelog-2026-09-20 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Ringforts and stone forts: the commonest monument in Ireland gets a page</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-16 myireland-changelog-2026-09-16 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Two surnames people searched for and did not find: Cronan and Cormack</li><li>Christmas in Ireland: the candle, the crib, the wren and the swim</li><li>Bealtaine and Lughnasa: a page each for the last two quarter days</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-15 myireland-changelog-2026-09-15 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>The years under the timeline now line up with the handle: it could sit over 1600 while the map showed 1461</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-14 myireland-changelog-2026-09-14 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Every county page now links to the new pages about it: its funny place names, Samhain sites and women of legend</li><li>The changeling: the murder of Bridget Cleary, 1895</li><li>The High Kings of Ireland, and where the legend ends</li><li>Irish superstitions: fairy forts, lone thorns and May Eve</li><li>Funny Irish place names, and what they really mean</li><li>The women warriors of Ireland: Medb, Scáthach, Aífe and the rest</li><li>Halloween in Ireland: Samhain, where it began</li><li>Harnett, Ó hAirtnéada, sent in by Niall Harnett</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-13 myireland-changelog-2026-09-13 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Surprising facts about Ireland, one for every age and every county</li><li>The gods and goddesses of Ireland, and how we know about them</li><li>The creatures of Irish folklore, and the ones that aren't Irish</li><li>The counties in Irish page now opens with the list of all 32, instead of a map whose names only showed on hover</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-12 myireland-changelog-2026-09-12 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Why every county is called what it is called — the Kingdom, the Rebel County, the Wee County and the twenty-nine others, including the five nobody can actually explain</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-11 myireland-changelog-2026-09-11 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>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</li><li>How to read a map of old Ireland, added to the quiz — and the quiz no longer offers two identical maps as different answers</li><li>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</li><li>Why the letters sound the way they do, explained on 62 name pages instead of 27</li><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Towns for the counties that had only their county town: Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare and Dublin</li><li>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</li><li>The tip jar now tells you what it will look like on your bank statement</li><li>Readers who send something in are now named on the page they improved, not only on the colophon</li><li>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</li><li>The tip jar moved to Buy Me a Coffee, so support is not split across two services</li><li>Culloty — Ó Codlata, 'one who sleeps', added after Paul Culloty wrote in about a rare Kerry name</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-10 myireland-changelog-2026-09-10 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>A design pass: the emoji icons gone, the panels quieter, and two layout bugs fixed that nobody had reported</li><li>All 27 era summaries rewritten to read less flatly — same facts, every date checked against the old wording</li><li>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</li><li>The About page now speaks in Diaz's own voice, and says plainly who made this and why</li><li>A long editing pass on the punctuation, after readers said the writing felt machine-made</li><li>The map now says Derry / Londonderry, and names the Eóganachta who held Munster until about 1000 — both after readers wrote in</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-08 myireland-changelog-2026-09-08 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>The last six counties get their folklore: all 32 now carry both a place and a story</li><li>Every county now has something on the Hidden Ireland and Myths layers — u/FierceHoarder said Laois looked bare, and eleven others were worse</li><li>The timeline moved above the map, so it stops shifting under your thumb — u/stevenmc and u/Silver_Response4707 both reported the same jump</li><li>A web admin at /admin/, designed around the two findings</li><li>The queue moves to GitHub issues, and drops the contact details</li><li>Queue Reddit suggestions alongside form submissions</li><li>Settlements of the age: a map layer that follows the slider</li><li>Scaffold a clans.js entry from an accepted surname suggestion</li><li>A triage queue for form submissions, not a second inbox</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-07 myireland-changelog-2026-09-07 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>All seven readers on the colophon, not four</li><li>Credit u/CuAnnan on the colophon, for both of his corrections</li><li>Brigid: the evidence is not thin, and the page said it was</li><li>Say on the colophon that the site is written with AI</li><li>Four more readers named on the pages their suggestions built</li><li>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</li><li>The Famine page now says what was decided, not only how many died — after u/YoIronFistBro said it read as a natural disaster</li><li>The timeline scale was lying about where you were — u/worktemp had the handle at 1845 and the page reading 1474</li><li>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</li><li>What the county borders actually mean, said at the map — and worded differently for each age, after u/Newc04 questioned them</li><li>McNelis — Mac Niallais, added after Patrick Mc Nelis wrote in to say a Donegal name was missing</li><li>The colophon now thanks the readers who improved the site, by name</li><li>The map key moved under the map — u/antipositron pointed out on Reddit that it was a long scroll away on a phone</li><li>A tip jar, for anyone who would like to help with the server bill</li><li>Twenty surnames given a real story, from Woulfe</li><li>Every surname page now shows what the name is made of, and whether it is Irish</li><li>Ogham stones: the oldest writing in Ireland, and where it still stands</li><li>A proper preview picture when you share a page</li><li>Clearer titles and summaries on every name and surname page</li><li>Why an Irish name sounds the way it does, explained on 27 name pages</li><li>Is your surname Irish? Five honest answers, not one flattering one</li><li>The 32 counties page rebuilt — how many, which are where, and the largest and smallest</li><li>Irish surnames in English: read Ó Dorchaidhe off a gravestone and find Darcy</li><li>The four provinces — Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connacht, a page each</li><li>The colophon now opens with the person who made the site, not the software</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-06 myireland-changelog-2026-09-06 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>A changelog and a colophon: what changed, and what it is built on</li><li>Hear it spoken: 578 Irish words, names and places read aloud</li><li>The machinery for spoken Irish</li><li>Town names in Irish, and what each one meant before it was a town</li><li>The 32 counties in Irish — the first page built from what people actually search for</li><li>Irish traditional music: the instruments, the tunes, the session</li><li>Irish mythology: the four cycles</li><li>Surname: McGale</li><li>The register of names, Bloomsday, Reek Sunday, the national symbols and the placename elements</li><li>The monuments of Ireland: round towers, high crosses, tombs, dolmens, stone circles, holy wells</li><li>Family crests, honestly; and how to actually trace Irish ancestors</li><li>A real page for a wrong address — the site had been answering every one with the homepage</li><li>Every list page now says something about each entry, not just its name</li><li>Surname origin pages get their story</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-05 myireland-changelog-2026-09-05 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>A second pass on titles, descriptions and publication dates</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-04 myireland-changelog-2026-09-04 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Photographs for Wren Day; none for Nollaig na mBan, and it says why</li><li>Wren Day and Nollaig na mBan get their own pages</li><li>St Patrick's Day: the day itself, and where each bit of it came from</li><li>Blessings and sayings get their own pages</li><li>Castles: 354 of them, mapped, county by county</li><li>Names: 68 more, from Woulfe by way of Wikipedia's list</li><li>Names: a pronunciation guide, and six ways into the list</li><li>Review the homeland counties of the 77 new surnames</li><li>Surnames: 77 more names, and six ways into them</li><li>Photographs: 194 pictures from Wikimedia Commons</li><li>Irish words, blessings and proverbs</li><li>Towns and cities: 60 places across all 32 counties</li><li>Saints and the Irish year</li><li>Dropped the required citation on the corrections form — it was turning away people with real family knowledge</li><li>Site-wide search</li><li>Ogham writer, and visitor suggestions for names, surnames and features</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-03 myireland-changelog-2026-09-03 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>Social-preview cards for all 140 Irish name pages</li><li>Irish first names: 140 name pages with pronunciation, meaning and story</li></ul> https://myireland.ie/changelog/#2026-09-02 myireland-changelog-2026-09-02 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT <ul><li>26 more surnames, 5 events and 40 placenames</li><li>Famine map, chronicle page, era FAQs, HowTo schema</li><li>Wire corrections form to Sevenoways Forms backend</li><li>Analytics behind a consent banner, and a privacy page that explains it</li><li>Made legible to search engines and to AI assistants</li><li>Díaz — the first “New Irish” name in the surname book</li><li>Add Watters to the clan book; non-Wikipedia source links on clan cards</li><li>Contact address hello@myireland.ie for corrections, About and footer</li><li>Every borrowed line attributed, every claim given its source</li><li>Clan pages, A-Z index, social preview cards, richer share text</li><li>Add Forde and Jenkins to the clan book; source links on clan cards</li><li>An Ghaeilge — the interface in Irish</li><li>The records hub, and a way to tell us when we get something wrong</li><li>Diaspora trails page</li><li>The placename decoder, and a guess-the-age quiz</li><li>On This Day, and two new map layers: Hidden Ireland and the myths</li><li>A page for every era and every one of the 32 counties</li><li>The atlas goes live — 10,000 years of Irish history on one timeline</li></ul>