Liam Price (February 1891 – 1967) was a

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judge, historian and former president of the

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(RSAI) who published work on historical topography and the history of placenames, especially for the county of Wicklow, where he was a district justice. His work on these areas has been published in journals and books and his contribution, totalling about 40 papers, was acknowledged in a special issue of the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'' in 1965, shortly before his death in 1967.

Education and employment

Price attended

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, England, before studying at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

where he was awarded a senior moderatorship in Classics and the Vice-Chancellor's Latin Medal for his study of Lucretius. He was called to the bar in 1919 where he practiced in

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until the foundation of the

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. He was appointed district justice in 1922 and practices in Carlow, Kilkenny, and Mullingar. He was assigned to the Wicklow district in 1924, a position he retained until retirement in 1960. He was conferred with an honorary doctorate in 1965 from

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Professional associations

* Member of the National Monuments Advisory Council * Member of the Archaeological Exploration Committee of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the natural sciences, arts, literature, and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned society and one of its le ...

* Member of the

Irish Folklore Commission The Irish Folklore Commission () was set up in 1935 by the Irish Government to study and collect information on the folklore and traditions of Ireland. History Séamus Ó Duilearga (James Hamilton Delargy) founded ''An Cumann le Béaloideas Éir ...

* Member of the Board of Visitors of the

National Museum of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland () is Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. It has three branches in Dublin, the arch ...

* Member of the Irish Place-names Commission * Member 1926–1933; fellow 1934–1959; honorary life fellow from 1959; member of the council 1931–1934; honorary editor 1935–1944, 1957–1963; president 1949-1952 of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

Publications

Books

# The Liam Price notebooks: the placenames, antiquities and topography of County Wicklow, Published by the Department of the Environment, Dublin, 2002. # The Place Names of County Wicklow (two parts published by Royal Irish Academy, subsequent 6 parts published by the

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) () is a statutory independent research institute in Dublin, Ireland. It was established, under the Institute For Advanced Studies Act 1940, by the government of the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Vale ...

)

Selected journal articles

# Hearth Money Rolls for County Wicklow - transcription of placenames appearing on Hearth Money Rolls dating from 1668. # The ages of stone and bronze in county Wicklow - details the archaeological evidence for settlements in South County Dublin and Wicklow including a series of sepulchral urns held at the National Museum of Ireland, one from Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow. # The antiquities and placenames of South County Dublin - draws information from the Down survey maps to describe various antiquities across the south of County Dublin, including Ballinascorney, Tallaght Hill and Saggart Hill # Powerscourt and the territory of Fercullen - describes the medieval history of North county Wicklow and the ancient territory of Fercullen, granted to the O'Tooles in 1540.

References

External links

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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