The programme features eight presentations covering Scottish Gaelic and Pictish toponymy, Irish literary landscapes, historical cartography, fieldwork methodology and the preservation of linguistic heritage.
Conference Programme
The conference opens at 10:00 with a welcome by Morag Redford (University of the Highlands and Islands), followed by the following presentations:
10:05–10:35 – Phil Ó hEochaidh: Place-names of Carrickfergus.
10:35–11:05 – Liam Crouse: Three etiological legends for the Eriskay placename ‘Glaic na Còmhraig’, examining competing oral traditions associated with a Scottish Gaelic place-name.
11:30–12:00 – Rebecca Madlener: Diverging Landscapes. Interpreting differences between fieldwork data and place-name data, exploring the semantics of Gaelic landscape vocabulary.
12:00–12:30 – Sarah Künzler: A Handbook for (Top)onomastic Researchers, introducing a forthcoming two-volume methodological guide developed with Barbara Aehnlich.
13:30–14:00 – Fiona Campbell-Howes: The meaning of carden revisited: Pictish royal hunting grounds, proposing a new interpretation of a historical place-name element.
14:00–14:30 – Scott Lloyd: Hidden Boundaries: Ordnance Survey Boundary Remark Books as a Source for Place-Name Research, highlighting an underused archival resource.
14:45–15:15 – Larissa Toal: Named Places and Wilderness in Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne: An Ecocritical Look, investigating the narrative functions of place-names in Irish literature.
15:15–15:45 – Alina Brust: Reflections of Gaelic heritage in the street names of Girvan, examining traces of Gaelic linguistic heritage in urban naming.
The programme includes breaks at 11:05 and 14:30, a lunch interval from 12:30 to 13:30, and concluding remarks at 15:45–16:00.
The conference offers an opportunity for onomasticians, linguists, historians and researchers interested in cultural landscapes to exchange perspectives on the relationship between names, language, memory and place.
Date: 7 November 2026
Format: Online
Registration: Register for the SPNS Autumn Conference
The complete programme and presentation abstracts are available on the SPNS conference website.
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