American places named after Irish cities

PerrinV2

Just saw there that there's a Dublin city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States named after our own place here.
Is this the only american place named after an irish one? can't imagine there's many more

tac foley

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Just saw there that there's aDublin city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States named after our own place here.
Is this the only american place named after an irish one? can't imagine there's many more

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Munster Township, Pennsylvania
Munster, Indiana
Lisburn, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated place in Lower Allen Township, Pennsylvania
Newry, Maine
Newry Township, Minnesota
Newry, Pennsylvania
Ulster Township, Iowa
Ulster County, New York
Ulster Township, Pennsylvania
Antrim, Louisiana
Antrim, New Hampshire
Antrim, New York
Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio
Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio
Antrim, Pennsylvania
Antrim County, Michigan
Antrim Township, Michigan
Antrim Township, Minnesota
Antrim Township, Pennsylvania
Belfast, Maine
Belfast Township, Minnesota
Belfast, New York
Belfast, Pennsylvania
Belfast Township, Pennsylvania
Armagh, Pennsylvania
Armagh Township, Pennsylvania
Lurgan Township, Pennsylvania
Hackettstown, New Jersey
Clare County, Michigan
Clare, Michigan
Shannon County, Missouri
Shannon County, South Dakota
Corktown is a neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan and was an Irish enclave in the 19th century.
Donegal, Pennsylvania
Bangor is the name of 28 towns around the world, including Bangor, County Down. Some of these, such as Bangor, Maine are named after Bangor in Wales.
Dublin, California
Dublin, Georgia
Dublin, Kentucky
Dublin, Michigan
Dublin, New Hampshire
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Texas
Dublin, Virginia
Dublin, Pennsylvania
Dublin Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania
Dublin Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Fermanagh Township, Pennsylvania
Galway (town), New York
Galway (village), New York
Menlo, Georgia
Menlo, Iowa
Menlo, Kansas
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, New Jersey
Killarney, Florida
Kildare Township, Minnesota
Kildare, Oklahoma
Kildare, Wisconsin
Kilkenny, Minnesota
Kilkenny, New Hampshire
Limerick, Georgia
Limerick, Illinois
Limerick, Mississippi
Limerick, New York
Limerick, Ohio
Limerick, South Carolina
Limerick Township, Pennsylvania — see also Limerick nuclear power plant
Limerick, Maine
New Limerick, Maine
Coleraine, Minnesota
Derry, New Hampshire
Derry, Pennsylvania
Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Derry Township, Montour County, Pennsylvania
Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Londonderry, New Hampshire
Londonderry, Vermont
Londonderry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Baltimore County, Maryland, from Baron Baltimore, whose title was derived from a place in Longford called Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore, Vermont
Dundalk, Maryland
Mayo, Florida
Tara Township, Swift County, Minnesota
Tara Township, Traverse County, Minnesota
Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Roscommon, Michigan
Roscommon County, Michigan
Sligo, Louisiana is an unincorporated place in Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Sligo, Pennsylvania
Strabane Township, North Dakota
North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
South Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
Tyrone, Georgia
Tyrone, Pennsylvania
Tyrone Township, Kent County, Michigan
Tyrone Township, Livingston County, Michigan
Tyrone Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Tyrone Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Lower Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Upper Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Cashel Township, Minnesota Note there are other places in Ireland named Cashel see the disambiguation page. The one in Tipperary is the best known.
Waterford, Michigan
Waterford, New York
Waterford, Connecticut
Avoca, Arkansas
Avoca School District 37, Cook County, Illinois
Avoca, Indiana
Avoca, Iowa
Avoca, Louisville, Kentucky
Avoca, Kenockee Township, Michigan
Avoca, Minnesota
Avoca, Nebraska
Avoca (town), New York
Avoca (village), New York
Avoca, Pennsylvania
Avoca, Texas
Avoca, Wisconsin
Glendalough State Park, Minnesota
Rathdrum, Idaho
Wexford County, Michigan
Wexford Township, Michigan

tac

PerrinV2

Sweet Jebus!

richardjjd

Joseph O'Connor's book - Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America - was based on his visit to the nine places in the US called Dublin. A good read, as far as I can remember.

According to the blurb on the Easons website:
[...] visit the nine different towns called Dublin ... New Hampshire, Pennysylvannia, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Texas, Las Vegas and California - to name a few...

richardjjd

And the 1987 Ryder Cup was held in Dublin, Ohio (that was the one where Eamon D'Arcy won the match).

slowburner

Hollywood

NotCarrotRidge

There's a townland called Boston on the Loughrea-Portumna road. Dublin, Ohio is quite a large city. There are loads and loads of American (and Canadian and Australian) placenames with Irish origins.

yermanoffthetv

Ennis, Texas. Dundalk, Ontario Canada etc ...Id say the list is shockingly long if you consider the amount of Irish emmigration.

Richard

NotCarrotRidge wrote: »

There's a townland called Boston on the Loughrea-Portumna road. Dublin, Ohio is quite a large city. There are loads and loads of American (and Canadian and Australian) placenames with Irish origins.

I think Boston is named after Boston in Lincolnshire.

snubbleste

The NH towns of Derry and Londonderry are situated next to each other. Very odd.

Nemesis

Quite a few Avoca's considering the size of the village.

Soundsphere

They did that with other countries/places as well. There are a quite a few Frankfurts and Berlins over there is the US as well.

V_Moth

tac foley wrote: »

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Munster, Indiana

tac

Soundsphere wrote: »

They did that with other countries/places as well. There are a quite a few Frankfurts and Berlins over there is the US as well.

The town in Indiana is named after a Dutch guy. There is a large town in Germany called Münster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster), which may account for the other "Munster" in the list.

I think Germans make up the largest group of immigrants into the US, which would explain the US towns named after places in Germany.

ciara84

tac foley wrote: »

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Baltimore County, Maryland, from Baron Baltimore, whose title was derived from a place in Longford a town/village in Cork called Baltimore

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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=baltimore,+ireland&hl=en&ll=49.066668,-9.008789&spn=18.243878,46.538086&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.848534,93.076172&hnear=Baltimore,+County+Cork,+Ireland&t=m&z=5

slowburner

Nemesis wrote: »

Quite a few Avoca's considering the size of the village.

Nearly all the 'other' Avocas are have a connection with mining, just like the original.
The other thing is that many Cornish miners worked and settled in Avoca, over the course of its mining history.
Cornish miners are legendary for going 'wherever there is a hole in the ground'.

Duggys Housemate

Pretty amazed after the success of the wire that Baltimore was not known

Subpopulus

tac foley wrote: »

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Munster Township, Pennsylvania
Munster, Indiana

tac

Bear in mind that that may also be of Munster, Germany, albeit without the umlaut. The Board of Geographic Names was founded in the 1890s in the US to stamp out errant exotic European diacritics and standardise US town names

Town and city names in the US endlessly fascinate me. Rarely have people ever encoutered such a huge patch of land that required naming. Mostly they just borrowed existing names from european places or named a town after some forgotten dignitary who happened to be holding office at the time. A surprising amount of US names are acually derived from indigenous names. Connecticut comes to mind, though it started as Quonectacaut, or something to that effect.

There's an excellent chapter in Bill Bryson's book Made in America on the naming practices of early America.