Best nickname for places

Pique

What's the best nickname you've heard for a place ?

I lived at Punches Cross in Limerick years back and Mary Immaculate College was only down the road. It's a teacher-training college with a high proportion of young females attending .

It was known as the Virgin Megastore.


Any others?

NoHornJan

What about Moyross?

Nothing of moyne is left there.

All snitched...


Aviva

Berty bowl.

Donnybrook.

Killer Pigeon

The Mun.

Where all the people who walk like pigeons live.

CiaranMT

Kilkee - "Southill-By-The-Sea"

Dúnchaoin, Dingle Peninsula - "Most beautiful place in the world"... Not quite, but it's one of the most beautiful places in Ireland!

admiralofthefleet

portlaoise prison - the vatican

because of the amount of catholic scum priests inside it

El Siglo

CiaranMT wrote: »

Kilkee - "Southill-By-The-Sea"

admiralofthefleet wrote:

portlaoise prison - the vatican

These two just cracked me up.

Agricola

Bugler's Muff

orourkeda

Manchester = Smelly Kip

rossie1977

smellyhaunis co mayo

sheesh

there is a rough part of tralee called 'the bullring'

cgarrad

I heard the posh part of Galway being referred to as G4...

Gannicus

Muff in Donegal.

Can't believe nobody mentioned it yet

ronnie3585

Big Steve wrote: »

Muff in Donegal.

Can't believe nobody mentioned it yet

Because Muff is the actual name of the village, not a nickname.

ProjectColossus

http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

Gannicus

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Because Muff is the actual name of the village, not a nickname.

Its a nickname for a bajingo.

King Felix

Dundalk - El Paso.

I used to love that in the eighties.

Donkey Oaty

Ballymena - "Disneyland" (as in "He wants salt but he disney want vinegar.")

Staff nickname for Disneyland Paris: "Mousewitz".

Faith+1

My local park in Cabra is called the "Boogies" I'm stumpted as to why they call it that??

DazMarz

Mosney getting re-dubbed 'Mosnia' in the wake of all the Eastern European asylum seekers there.

Old Wes Disco in Donnybrook I've heard refered to as "The Baby Factory" or the "Abortionist's Retirement Plan".

biko

"Scumbagville"

WIZE

Santa Ponsa = Ballymun in the Sun

orourkeda

Faith+1 wrote: »

My local park in Cabra is called the "Boogies" I'm stumpted as to why they call it that??

It the bogie fields as opposed to the boogie fields and is named after an old mode of transport i believe

Jax Teller

pepper canister

Nodster

Dullamore

Tallaghtafornia

Funleer

When you come out of Bray dart station, theres an alley to the left with a high proportion of Asian owned shops, can't remember the real name of it but people used to call it Brayjing.

nullzero

Mickey Marbh = Stillorgan.

poppyvalley

Hackballscross, actual name

Burkatron

Anywhere with Dun as the first part of it's name:
Fundoran
Fundalk - debatable
Funleer

Lahinch seems to have been dubbed L.A. Hinch & Milltown Malbay - The Northies referring to the "South" as Mexico! Damn gringo's!!!

Rhyme

Clonsilla - Godzilla
Sydney Parade - Sidney Poitier
Donaghmede - District 9

giles lynchwood

The railway square in Waterford was Lindon Village.Winos fav tipple of the day.
Preachers niteclub = Creatures
Oxygen niteclub =Poxygen
Presentation school =Pregnant nation

Ollchailin

Not a nickname, but just a play on the name

There's a place in Kilkenny called Tullaroan, you wouldn't really ever pass though it unless you were going there specifically, so people sing the Toblerone tune about it

"Tullaroan, out on it's own"

Burkatron

Knackeragua - anywhere thats a dump

Coriolanus

Nodster wrote: »

Tallaghtafornia

I thought the Tallaght-Ford ads were ripping on the nickname Tallaghtfornia for a long time.

nullzero wrote: »

Mickey Marbh = Stillorgan.

Dead penis? I don't get it.

Barna77

Smellyfermot

Tallaghtfornia boords are unforgettable :rolleyes:

KeithM89_old

Nevore wrote: »

Dead penis? I don't get it.

Mickey Marbh = Stillorgan.

Still. Organ.

Geddit??

Coriolanus

KeithM89 wrote: »

Mickey Marbh = Stillorgan.

Still. Organ.

Geddit??

Holy **** that's brilliant! :pac:

Kasabian

Shannon is known as "Little Belfast"

I also know of an estate in a village that is called "The Bronx"

Son Of A Vidic

One tough part of Sligo known as the 'Reservation'.

NoHornJan

Testicle Arch. = Ballsbridge.

.50 (MOA)

Letterkenny => letterkenya

Barna77

Kasabian wrote: »

I also know of an estate in a village that is called "The Bronx"

Killbarrack > Killbronx

RayM

NoHornJan wrote: »

Testicle Arch. = Ballsbridge.

I've always been disappointed that the Irish translation of Ballsbridge isn't 'Droichead na Liathróidí'.

kincsem

Brayrut

Mrmoe

Cattleisland

Cavehill Red

NoHornJan wrote: »

Testicle Arch. = Ballsbridge.

My old Classics teacher, a TCD graduate who lived in Dublin in the Sixties, always referred to D4 as Pons Testiculorum.

charlemont

ballycotten/ballyrotten

portadown/portafrown

clonmel/scumel

urlingford/hurlingford

wellington road/hellington rd

tipperary/kipperary

Pdfile

Nullinggar

Stillorgasam

:rolleyes:

chughes

RayM wrote: »

I've always been disappointed that the Irish translation of Ballsbridge isn't 'Droichead na Liathróidí'.

I had heard that the Irish translation is Droichead na mBollicks. The leading m denotes the possessive case so the b is silent.

DublinWriter

Back when I was a kid we used to call the Hugh Forkin hardware shop on Talbot St the Huge Foreskin shop.

A couple of years ago we were having a serious discussion at work about place names in Irish. Someone asked what Stillorgan was called in Irish and one of the girls shot-back Mickey-Mearbh.

Rocky_Dennis

Pennys is known as the single mothers club on the first tuesday of every month(childrens allowance day)

sheesh

killarney is sometimes called 'beauties home' in its advertising (to tourists)

there used to be an insane aslyum in killarney too. people who went mad were sent over to killarney Beauties' Home.

as in 'Do you know where he is now? Over in Beauties home.'