I am also interested in fictitious sites from plays and films but so far most I have found or being sent are from books. They include (placename followed by the author's name):
'Greywater', - Malachy DoylePlease get in touch if you know of any others.
'Drumnay', - Patrick Kavanagh
'Ballygullion', - Lynn Doyle
'Carn', - Patrick McCabe
'Tyreelin', - Patrick McCabe
'Tumdrum', - Ian Samson
'Rathard', - Sam Hanna Bell
'Ballycarnamaghery', - JC Pedlow
'Aghnascreeby', - Mat Mulcaghy
'Crossmaheart', - Colin Bateman
'Ballybucklebo', - Patrick Taylor
'Kiltarragh', - Martin Waddell
'Ballyutogue', - Leon Uris
'Puckoon', - Spike Milligan
'Port na Rón', - Erin Hart
'Butlershill', - Shane McConnaughton
'Tailorstown', - Christina McKenna
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I am listening to The House on the Borderland on Bbc radio 4 extra
ReplyDeleteIs this another fiction for your map
Also check out the second volume of
The league of extraordinary gentlemen
it has an extensive written piece about fantasy fictions in Ireland
Here are the opening paragraphs of 'The House on the Borderland' by William Hope Hodgson. It is set in a desolate place called 'Kraighten.' It could be in Donegal, with Ardrahan standing in for Ardara. However there is an Ardrahan in Galway and that seems more likely.
ReplyDeleteThe title 'The House on the Borderland' makes one think of Ulster of course, but it was written in 1907, before partition. The borderland in question is probably not Ireland's international border.
"Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill. Far around there spreads a waste of bleak and totally inhospitable country; where, here and there at great intervals, one may come upon the ruins of some long desolate cottage—unthatched and stark.
"The whole land is bare and unpeopled, the very earth scarcely covering the rock that lies beneath it, and with which the country abounds, in places rising out of the soil in wave-shaped ridges.
"Yet, in spite of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there. He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village.
"I have said that the river is without name; I may add that no map that I have hitherto consulted has shown either village or stream. They seem to have entirely escaped observation: indeed, they might never exist for all that the average guide tells one. Possibly this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant.
"It was early one warm evening when my friend and I arrived in Kraighten. We had reached Ardrahan the previous night, sleeping there in rooms hired at the village post office, and leaving in good time on the following morning, clinging insecurely to one of the typical jaunting cars."
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/28/glenn-patterson-top-10-belfast-books?cat=books&type=article
ReplyDeletedon't think you have "Ballybogoin" from Bill Kelleher's ethnographical/anthropological study : (yes that's one of mine on the cover :-) :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/Troubles-Ballybogoin-Identity-Northern-Ireland/dp/0472089781
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Sean Hillen