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Place names in Ireland of Danish origin

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    #32
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    Donegal town means "fort of the foreigner" which then became the name of the county too, it doesn't actually come from the Scandinavian languages though.


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    paul71
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    No mention yet of Leixlip, the Salmon Leap, although I have heard it is Norse not Danish.

    The reason for the location of the town has a clue in the name. It was the last navigable point on the Liffey hence longboats could not go past it and Viking raiding power would therefore have been restricted but not eliminated past it.

    It was called Salmon Leap because of the 20 foot waterfall which Salmon jumped in order to spawn up-river and that was the barrier stopped the longboats. The waterfall is no longer visable since the creation of the Leixlip damn and is now under the lake in Leixlip.


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    Qualitymark
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    Don't forget Harold's Cross - the crossroads at the farm of the Viking family called Harold, where a cross was erected around where the Kenilworth crossroads is, to mark the border between the archbishopric of Dublin and the County Dublin septs.


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