Pronunciation of some Cavan places?

BottleOfSmoke

Could someone help me with the phonetic pronunciation of some places in Cavan - spell it out as it sounds:
How is "Lavey" pronounced - is it lay-vee or laah-vee?
How is "Behey" pronounced - bee-hee or beh-hee?
Stradone is: strad-own?
Leiter is: letcher or letter?

caze

"Lavey" pronounced - laah-vee
"Behey" pronounced - beh-hee
Stradone is: strad-owen
Leiter is: letter

degsie

And Cavan is pronounced Key-aw-vaughan

heldel00

Id pronounce Stradone as Strad-own.

(Not on your list but Crosserlough always catches people out: Crush-er-law!!!)

BottleOfSmoke

Thanks, all. Much appreciated!

Tizzy Dongue

heldel00 wrote: »

Id pronounce Stradone as Strad-own.

(Not on your list but Crosserlough always catches people out: Crush-er-law!!!)

I love (not) the way Crosserlough is Crusherlaw.....I mean WTF

Mrs cockett

My daughter used be on the Dublin Cavan bus, when it would reach the Lavey Inn several young people would get on their phones and say " I'm at the Laahvee, Mammy"
It became a sort of bye word in our house

woolymammoth

Tizzy Dongue wrote: »

heldel00 wrote: »

Id pronounce Stradone as Strad-own.

(Not on your list but Crosserlough always catches people out: Crush-er-law!!!)

I love (not) the way Crosserlough is Crusherlaw.....I mean WTF

Don't get too hung up on it. You have to remember most townland names are bastardised English spelling of original Gaelic names, but still have some pronounciation of the original. When you look up the name, it begins to make sense!

Nekarsulm

We always seem to emphasize the centre portion of a name place.

Mrs cockett

Swanlinbar prounounced Swadlinbar or Swad for short

Nekarsulm

Or Bellananagh, which is almost unpronouncable, but commonly just spelled Ballinagh and pronounced Ba-lin-ya