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[tr.] Freeman, Philip [tr.], “Ireland before St Patrick: § 56. Ptolemy Geography 1.11.7”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. 48.
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Isaac, Graham R., Place-names in Ptolemy's Geography. An electronic data base with etymological analysis of the Celtic name-elements, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2004.
Falileyev, Alexander, “Ptolemy revisited, again”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 43 (Summer, 2002): 77–91.
Toner, Gregory, “Identifying Ptolemy’s Irish places and tribes”, in: David N. Parsons, and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. 73–82.
Parsons, David N., and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. ix + 188 pp.
Parsons, David N., “Classifying Ptolemy’s English place-names”, in: David N. Parsons, and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. 169–178.
de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia, “Ptolemy’s Celtic Italy and Ireland: a linguistic analysis”, in: David N. Parsons, and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. 83–112.
Sims-Williams, Patrick, “Degrees of Celticity in Ptolemy’s names: examples from Wales”, in: David N. Parsons, and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. 1–15.
Mac an Bhaird, Alan, “Ptolemy revisited”, Ainm: Bulletin of the Ulster Place Name Society 5 (1991–1993): 1–20.
Tierney, J. J., “The Greek geographic tradition and Ptolemy’s evidence for Irish geography”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 76 C (1976): 257–265.
Pokorny, Julius, “Die Geographie Irlands bei Ptolemaios”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 24 (1954): 94–120.
Berthelot, André, “L’Irlande de Ptolémée”, Revue Celtique 50 (1933): 238–247.
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