Westmeath on Creedon’s Atlas of Ireland

Mary McEvoy and her farm near Delvin feature on Creedon’s Atlas of Ireland this coming Sunday, March 14.

In episode two of the series, the actor and farmer talks Delvin field names with John Creedon and reveals a mystical pet project.

John also visits The Burren to see if local cave PollnaGollum might have inspired Tolkien’s famous character Gollum and writer Joseph O’Connor tells him why the English couple who founded Letterfrack deserve a statue on O’Connell street.

In this new series, John explores the true meaning behind some of Ireland’s most unusual, iconic and famous place names.

Each show is an hour long journey where John discovers lost meanings behind every day place names.

He travels the length and breadth of Ireland uncovering hidden folklore, forgotten history, secret architecture and obscure topography of the country’s towns, cities, villages, highways and byways that give rise to Ireland’s place names.

Referring to the work of John O’Donovan – the man who helped document place names for the 1840s survey – John Creedon cracks the code of some of Ireland’s best loved, quirkiest and common place names.

Creedon’s Atlas of Ireland, 6.30pm, RTÉ One, March 14.