Dr. Mark Clinton:

There is the folklore department in University College Dublin and all of that. Great study has been done on placenames and there is a record of placenames that are historic and all the rest of it. It could be done. For example, to take it into an archaeological zone it would be like proposing to rename Newgrange. That would be a bit bizarre and nobody would accept it but it would not be possible to get away with that. That is the name that is on the Ordnance Survey Ireland map, it is in all the Irish Folklore Commission documents, it is in the Ordnance Survey name books and it is in all the data from John O’Donovan and others who went around the country gathering all these placenames and old names of streets. There is that body of information and maybe the Bill could say that placenames should have some resonance in history and heritage.