The Place-Names of the Decies. London: David Nutt, 1907. First Edition. Xxvii, 503. Frontispiece map of the Decies, with four maps in the text. Publisher’s green cloth. Maroon cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s quarter morocco cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. Rebound in cloth, retaining to original back strip. Ex library copy with neat stamps. Contents pages in good condition.

First published in book-form 1907, Place-Names of the Decies, had been appearing for years in the local journal as a series of articles.

Patrick Power went from parish to parish collecting the information for the articles & became the historian par excellence of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore.