Móinín na gCiseach meaning?

lucianot · 29-12-2016 04:41PM #1

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 · 29-12-2016 09:26PM

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 · 30-12-2016 03:19PM

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 · 30-12-2016 06:20PM

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 · 03-01-2017 10:09AM

Thanks!

ggg16 · 28-01-2017 09:08PM

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 · 30-01-2017 09:03AM

Excellent! Thanks for that reply. Very interesting.

Móinín na gCiseach meaning?

Comments