Just to throw a small linguistic spanner into the works, Dooneen may be one of those placenames that repeats all over the country - the word in Irish means a little fort.

The Kerry poet Brendan Kennelly was talking on last Saturday's The Poetry Programme on RTE Radio 1 about how he used to write poems about people's tiny native townland or village for them to take away with them to Australia or America. Perhaps in the future people will be arguing about where these long-forgotten places are.