Móinín na gCiseach meaning?

lucianot

Hello,

What does exactly this place name mean?
Móinín na gCiseach.
The closes I could get with the dictionary is "bridge of the bog".

Thanks!

Insect Overlord

lucianot wrote: »

Hello,

What does exactly this place name mean?
Móinín na gCiseach.
The closes I could get with the dictionary is "bridge of the bog".

Thanks!

Going by Teanglann.ie, I'd suggest the Trampled Bogland or something like that.

http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/Ciseach

Or maybe the Little Bog of the Bridge. I'd need a little more local knowledge before trying to give you a definitive answer.

lucianot

Thanks. It is in Galway city, here is the location:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2828249,-9.0337252,18z

It is a low area close to Lough Atalia.

Cheers.

Lucianot

ezra_pound

An File wrote: »

Going by Teanglann.ie, I'd suggest the Trampled Bogland or something like that.

http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/Ciseach

Or maybe the Little Bog of the Bridge. I'd need a little more local knowledge before trying to give you a definitive answer.

Presumably "na gCiseach" must be plural - the caighdeánach genitive plural is na gCiseacha - so the "bridge" would be bridges.

I would suggest wattled causeways or improvised paths rather than bridges :

The little boggy area with improvised (wattle) paths.

lucianot

Thanks!

ggg16

The boggy pathway was what we were told as children. It comes from the history where turf was sold from the Currachs in Lough Atalia

lucianot

Excellent! Thanks for that reply. Very interesting.