Town with the most culchie name

fryup

Which town or village out there has the most culchie sounding name.

Myself I nominate..Ballymackey in Co Tipp

Anytime anyone mentions the place i picture farmers in wellies, tractors, cows & sheep on the road and general culchiness.:)

and you.....

**Timbuk2**

Ballinasloe - I have no idea why!
Oh and Nobber, Co. Meath :P

Cianos

Termonfeckin' in Louth

staker

Smithfield.

Is this the new culchie/cityfolk thread?

Guill

Muckross = Pig country

brembo26

kinnegad or eniscorthy does it for me :P

Fratton Fred

Shillelagh.

Caraville

Hackballscross

Kiltimagh (where the word Culchie is said to be from)

Cahirciveen

Kilmacow

Skeaghvasteen

Gneeveguilla

Ahascragh

policarp

Ballydehob...

fryup

Caraville wrote: »

Hackballscross

ouch!:o anytime i hear that place mentioned i wince ooh!

cyrusdvirus

I give you Skeheenarinky.

http://www.skeheenarinky.com/

Dravokivich

gatecrash wrote: »

I give you Skeheenarinky.

http://www.skeheenarinky.com/

Vintage club tractor run on the 3rd July ey?

Recon this place wins.

The King of Moo

Killinascully.

Caraville

Dravokivich wrote: »

Vintage club tractor run on the 3rd July ey?

Recon this place wins.

I dunno, their website is pretty swank, they can't be that in touch with their culchie side....

(By the way before any country folk get offended, I'm a culchie through and through and proud of it- wouldn't have it any other way!)

TheZohanS

Baile Atha Cliath.

Tallaght.

MidlandsM

Muff

Caraville

The King of Moo wrote: »

Killinascully.

Well even though it's fictional, there still are two places in Tipperary that it's based on- a mix of Killoscully and Ballinahinch

phasers

Athlooooone

The King of Moo

Caraville wrote: »

Well even though it's fictional, there still are two places in Tipperary that it's based on- a mix of Killoscully and Ballinahinch

Cool, I never knew that.
So the programme combines the two for maximum culchiness.
Like eating a breakfast roll at a mart.

JustAddWater

Borris-in-Ossory

this is arse

goatstown

careca11

muff
bush
bastardstown (somewhere in co.wexford)
Carrick-on-suir
drogheda (the dirtiest town in Ireland)

dpe

Cianos wrote: »

Termonfeckin' in Louth

I genuinely thought this was a made-up name when I was told about it and someone was playing "kid the Englishman".

Sprouts

Oola

Blue Ball

Horse and jockey? where else would ya get it?

neil_hosey

ballyjamesduff

castletownbere

castlegregory

hackballscross

Daingean Uí Chúis

hardCopy

dpe wrote: »

I genuinely thought this was a made-up name when I was told about it and someone was playing "kid the Englishman".

And only a short hop from Nobber

Caraville

The King of Moo wrote: »

Cool, I never knew that.
So the programme combines the two for maximum culchiness.
Like eating a breakfast roll at a mart.

Are breakfast rolls culchie? Most farmers I know have a big bowl of weetabix or a mountain of brown bread in the morning, I think breakfast rolls are a bit fancy, plus you'd need to be near a deli for one.

But yeah, Killinascully is loosely based on those two places- although from what I hear, Killoscully is a bit of a mad place itself!

fryup

neil_hosey wrote: »

castlegregory

castlegregorynah thats not culchie, sounds bit posh if anything

Mary28

Duagh and Knocknagoshel in Kerry.

Kevin Duffy

Ballsbridge.

Logical Fallacy

Most of the better ones appear to be the place names that are closest to their original Irish tbh.

Panthro

The King of Moo wrote: »

Like eating a breakfast roll at a mart.

Breakfast rolls are like posh **** to farmers, pointlessness wrapped up.

fricatus

Moate
Mullinavat
Kilmoganny
Ballinhassig
Grangemockler

dlofnep

Dublin.

NotExactly

Caraville wrote: »

Kiltimagh (where the word Culchie is said to be from)

I live 'bout 20 minutes away from Kiltimagh ..do you have a story behind how the word came about?

Caraville

NotExactly wrote: »

I live 'bout 20 minutes away from Kiltimagh ..do you have a story behind how the word came about?

Bear in mind this is from Wikipedia:

The term is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "One who lives in, or comes from, a rural area; a (simple) countryman (or woman), a provincial, a rustic", a word derived from the remote town of Coillte Mach, County Mayo.[2] Another possible derivation is from the Irish coillte meaning "the wood/forest",[citation needed] to describe people who lived in the woods. A further, simpler, explanation is that the word derives from the word agriCULTURE, highlighting the industrial/agricultural divide between rural and urban populations.[citation needed]
Another potential derivation is an old Gaelic term "cúl na tí",[citation needed] meaning the back of the house. It was, and still is to a certain extent, common practice in rural areas to enter a neighbour's house through the back door, rather than the front (which is for more formal visits). Thus the term cúl na tí or culchie was applied to these people. Also, many city dwellers from Dublin tenements had to work as servants. The servants were not permitted to enter the house from the front but had to use the back door or servants entrance. It became common practice in Dublin to use the term in a derogatory manner. Over time as the numbers of servants dwindled away the term was still kept in everyday use to this very day.

furtzy

Mucklagh in Co.Offaly...and it also is the most culchie town in Ireland

Guill

had to use the back door

As a Culchie i can definetly agree sure amn't i a back door man myself.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^

and when it comes to sex as well??????

saintsaltynuts

Ballygobackwards.

orourkeda

Portlaysh, Co Laysh

The King of Moo

Caraville wrote: »

Are breakfast rolls culchie? Most farmers I know have a big bowl of weetabix or a mountain of brown bread in the morning, I think breakfast rolls are a bit fancy, plus you'd need to be near a deli for one.

But yeah, Killinascully is loosely based on those two places- although from what I hear, Killoscully is a bit of a mad place itself!

I suppose they're not really that culchie actually, are they? Not exclusively anyway. I suppose I was led astray by the delightful Pat Shortt and his song.
I should stop seeing him as an Ambassador for Rural Affairs.

fryup

furtzy wrote: »

Mucklagh in Co.Offaly

now that is culchie sounding:) and i can picture the muck'savages inhabiting the place

Plazaman

Ballyhaunis The only good thing ever to come out of Ballyhaunis is the road - President Mary Mc Aleese*

Nobber Teehee








* This quote may be a lie

Clareboy

Why do we Irish always have to dismiss our native Irish place names as ' culchie'? What is a non-culchie place name ? Perhaps some imported place name such as Tudor Lawns, Westbury, or Oakleigh! We are a pathetic race of people if we regard our own places names as somewhat backward in comparison to the imported English place names.

Air_Bass

Mullagh (Co. Cavan)

Caraville

Clareboy wrote: »

Why do we Irish always have to dismiss our native Irish place names as ' culchie'? What is a non-culchie place name ? Perhaps some imported place name such as Tudor Lawns, Westbury, or Oakleigh! We are a pathetic race of people if we regard our own places names as somewhat backward in comparison to the imported English place names.

And why do you have to dismiss this thread as something that's saying these placenames are backward?

I've done some study on placenames (logainmneacha) of Ireland, was born and reared in the countryside and would much prefer to live in the country than a town. I just think some of these place names sound funny, and some of them do have bizarre origins or at the very least are somewhat quaint.

Badgermonkey

Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny

http://muckalee.kilkenny.gaa.ie/

There's also a townland in Limerick called Meanus.

http://www.goldenpages.ie/builders/meanus-limerick-county/

Caraville

furtzy wrote: »

Mucklagh in Co.Offaly...and it also is the most culchie town in Ireland

And there's a Muckalee in Kilkenny, would be pretty rural.

Edit: Badgermonkey just got in there before me with Muckalee!! Weird!!

greendom

Ballyboggan