Silly Irish place names

panda100

Was having lunch with one of my mates today and he mentioned that where he's from down in Limerick is called Knicker. After looking it up on the net, lo and behold there is a knicker national school! Is there any places you know of in Ireland that has a silly name (termofeckin sorta goes without saying)........

c - 13

Muff in Co. Donegal
You can find it easy enough on google earth.

Supposedly theres also a place called Bastardtown in Wexford too.
Dont know if that ones true though.

petes

Muff.

Owen

Bweeng, Curry, Tubbercurry, Tulsk, Gneeves, Nenagh!

deman

Muff is beside Derry, just across the border on the banks of the Foyle. It may or may not have a sub-aqua club called Muff Divers.

I still find Kilkenny a strange name. "They killed Kenny!!! B******s!!"

squibs

Hospital

Agamemnon

There's a Windgap in Waterford. Can't be much civic pride there.

kc66

Prosperous, Co. Kildare
Ovens
Kill

gogul

Nobber in Meath is a good one. There's also Longwood, which happens to be in Meath too.

gogul.

j22

Cockhill in Donegal.

youcancallmeal

Ahascragh (Pronounced a half scraw)

Also Jobstown was always a bit of a puzzle to me

deman

Ballinspittle

(town of the spittle)

Keedowah

Hackballscross
Nobber
Muff
Man-O-War

Eoin

deman wrote:

Muff is beside Derry, just across the border on the banks of the Foyle. It may or may not have a sub-aqua club called Muff Divers.

What about the off-license: Muff Liquers?

d-redser

Mulagh in Meath

Yellowbatter in Louth

??

deman

eoin_s wrote:

What about the off-license: Muff Liquers?

hullaballoo

Bray.

The Real B-man

Kilmuckridge, co.wexford.

Archeron

Horseleap (they even have a statue of a horse, leaping)
Tubbercurry,
Kocknagashel
Borris in Ossory
Portavogie

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Village just south of Birmingham called Shirley. In it they've got a chinese restaraunt called..

The Shirley Temple.

(Hell, made me laugh!)

Keedowah

Latin

Goodshape

Muff's a good one. I live in Buncrana which isn't too far away... to get to Muff you just have to go up through Grania's Gap*

Cockhill is on the otherside of town. They cater for all sorts in Inishowen


*not even joking.

zag

Stoneybatter -Dublin
Golden -Tipperary
Drumshambo -not sure
Horse & Jockey -Tipperary
Leighlinbridge - Carlow (Pronounced Locklin Bridge! why not Laylin??).
Scart - Tipperary

panda100

Archeron wrote:

Horseleap (they even have a statue of a horse, leaping)
Tubbercurry,
Kocknagashel
Borris in Ossory
Portavogie

Forgot about Borris in Ossory....do u think some guy called borris came up with it.....when I discover a town Im goingto name it 'panda in Ossory'

Heinrich

Middle Third off the Howth Road!

panda100

Goodshape wrote:

Muff's a good one. I live in Buncrana which isn't too far away... to get to Muff you just have to go up through Grania's Gap*

Cockhill is on the otherside of town. They cater for all sorts in Inishowen


*not even joking.

So you live inbetween muff and cockhill which is via graina's gap...jeez you wouldnt want to own a b+b around there cos foreign tourists would just hang up on you if you gave them directions.......

Jix

It happens to the best of us

Stillorgan - Dublin

Ruu_Old

Kilcock (its in some boardsies location thingy )
Watergrasshill in Cairk

edit: cheerfully withdraw my extra "L" thanks zag

zag

Ruu wrote:

Killcock (its in some boardsies location thingy )

It's just one 'L'

Kilcock

Apologies for being a pedantic person

radioman

Theres a place on the Limerick to Cork road called Newtwopothouse

kc66

There is a Muff Crescent in Nobber

JohnnySideburns

The most racist town in Ireland

KILLINASPIC


(For slow people, Killing a Spic)

fuzzywiggle

2 Mile House

Peteee

Theres a place called Kilbrittain in Cork

nachos

Termonfeckin, Co. Louth

Scraggs

Theres a place in Carlow called 'The Butts'

padraigmyers

Isn't there a Top petrol staion in Muff where you can buy a keyring that says "Top Muff".

Cormic

There is Oola in Limerick and Newtownmountkennedy in Wicklow - both a rather silly.

Redrocket

Horseleap
Ireland's Eye
Inch?? in kerry? where an inch is a mile from the tv ad??
Swords

Goodshape

padraigmyers wrote:

Isn't there a Top petrol staion in Muff where you can buy a keyring that says "Top Muff".

Used to be. It was a Top Shop beside the petrol station, the keyrings literally just said "Top Muff" with the shop colours etc. Very sought after items

Think it's changed to Tesco's or something now.

Jambo

Bastardstown and Horeswood bot in Co Wexford

Sauce

I know im adding an 's' but how about 'Sallys Gap' up in the Wicklow mountains.

There is a chinese in Monastrevin called 'Soon Fatt'

Femelade

radioman wrote:

Theres a place on the Limerick to Cork road called Newtwopothouse

there certainly is, also there's a twopothouse.

ballydehob is kinda funny.
oh and birr..co. offaly

just remembered, leap in cork.

tabatha

tubbercurry - sligo
blinddate - cork

Femelade

tabatha wrote:

tubbercurry - sligo
blinddate - cork

where is this blinddate you speak of..ive never heard of it?

Mimikyu

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Heinrich

Strokestown

blanjlix

Trim (didnt realise the significance until I learned in the US its slang for ...)

Step-A-Side (Dublin)

Nightwish

In Kilkenny theres Windgap,Ballymackillagill, Poulgour (The Goats Hole, in English), Ballyjohnboy, Dirtystep, Lousybush and Tomnahaha...and not forgetting Viperkells.
I also think Leap (Lep) in Cork is kinda ridiculous along with Camp in Kerry.

The Real B-man

Chapelizod, Dublin

The_Minister

I found two when bored in Geography last year

Horeabby

Bishop's furze



EDIT: What do you call someone who lives in Muff?


"cue damn lucky answer"