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carrick wood or corrig wood?

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  • 30-04-2009 4:16pm
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    stevoman
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    Driving by there the other day i seen it has a sign calling it Carrick Wood, although since i was a boy i always called it (and preseumed it was always known locally) as corrig wood on account of it being nothing more than a large rock with a forest on it. Even in primary school the teachers taught us this.

    What has anybody else been calling it all these years?


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    ports best
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    i always called it corrig wood too stevoman since i was a child goin up there to play and everyone i know calls it corrig wood as well, but for some feckin reason the sign up there says carrick wood, i never heard anybody calling it that so for me its still corrig wood


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    connundrum
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    There could be a Carrick and Corrig Wood?? Google both names, and both actually have similarly decent results.

    I always knew it as Corrig Wood, sure Corrig House (aka The Spa) was named after it.


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    sydthebeat
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    what the hell!?!?!?!

    where did that come from?? :eek:


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    ports best
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    what did port do on you

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    Please let me know if ye want me to remove your posts since the post you were replying to has been removed.


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    muttingaa
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    Only joking lads:D..Lived in Port. for three years and loved the place.


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    connundrum
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    Wtf happened to this thread?


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    muttingaa
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    I think the most accurate pronounciation would be Corrig Wood because it sounds like the Irish for rock ' carraig '.
    Carrick looks like an anglicised form of the name as in 'Carrick-on Suir/Shannon'.
    I'm not sure when Irish was last spoken in Port. but placenames often kept their old style way of being pronounced.
    There were Irish speakers in Roscommon up to the 1940s so there were still probably a handful in Laois up to the late 19th Century.
    And that is only a few generations back!


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