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Interesting article by John Barrell in the London Review of Books pp23–8 on ‘The Meeting of the Waters’ – a study of Thomas Moore’s poem about the confluence of that name in the Vale of Avoca, and the number of transferred place-names derived from it. ‘I’ve now collected two or three hundred such “meetings”’, and that’s only places which since 1808 have been called The Meeting of the Waters (or allegedly transferred from native toponyms to the same effect) so Eamont doesn’t count.

 

Avoca turns out to have an interesting name-history, as well.

 

Jeremy Harte

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