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Irish places with ironic names??

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  • #62
    fryup
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Hospital, Limerick. Doesn't have one.

    i often wondered how that place got that name...any locals fill us in?


  • #63
    elperello
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    fryup wrote: »
    i often wondered how that place got that name...any locals fill us in?

    It goes back to the time of the Knights Hospitaller who built a church there about 800 years ago. Just a pile of stones now.

    Better Limerick one is Effin.


  • #64
    Sac O Spuds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭Sac O Spuds


    Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

    Killbrittain

    I was told once that the man that shot Michael Collins in Bealnablath came from that area.


  • #65
    Gregor Samsa
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    Lads, explaining the factual etymologies of the place names is spoiling the irony.


  • #66
    fryup
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    Sac O Spuds wrote: »
    Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

    Killbrittain

    and was it called that back in colonial times?? surprised the brits allowed it


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  • #67
    elperello
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    Sac O Spuds wrote: »
    Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

    Killbrittain

    I was told once that the man that shot Michael Collins in Bealnablath came from that area.

    Correct, Sonny O'Neil was from Timoleague.


  • #68
    elperello
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Lads, explaining the factual etymologies of the place names is spoiling the irony.

    Ironically.


  • #69
    passremarkable
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    Crookedwood in Westmeath.
    They Have a hurling team who are not the best team in county let’s put it that way.
    So think it’s ironic that there called crookedwood!!


  • #70
    retalivity
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    Passifyoucan near lucan.
    It actually has many verges, driveways and wide corners to allow safe passing of traffic


  • #71
    deni20000
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    Nellies hole on lough derg


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  • #72
    flazio
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    Horse and Jockey in Tipperary. Apart from a statue I've never seen so much as a sulky.
    Couple of real name places in Galway. Two Mile Ditch and Dyke Road.

    This too shall pass.



  • #73
    josip
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    More sarcasm than irony, there's a townland in Wexford named Gurtins.
    The townland beside it is Gurtins Great.


  • #74
    elperello
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    deni20000 wrote: »
    Nellies hole on lough derg

    It's Nellies Angle.

    (I'm not sure which is worse :))


  • #75
    Thelonious Monk
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Fairview, Dublin. No view at all.

    I think the sea may have come right up to Fairview and that's maybe why it was called that, as you could see the whole of Dublin bay. I think maybe the Bull Wall allowed the land to be reclaimed.


  • #76
    odyssey06
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I think the sea may have come right up to Fairview and that's maybe why it was called that, as you could see the whole of Dublin bay. I think maybe the Bull Wall allowed the land to be reclaimed.

    And that explains Seaview Avenue & Bayview Avenue in North Strand and East Wall area... no view of the Bay anymore as the strand has been stolen by Clontarf.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #77
    [Deleted User]
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    Nuclear Drive, Portarlington.


  • #78
    Thelonious Monk
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    And that explains Seaview Avenue & Bayview Avenue in North Strand and East Wall area... no view of the Bay anymore as the strand has been stolen by Clontarf.

    Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.


  • #79
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    flazio wrote: »
    Horse and Jockey in Tipperary. Apart from a statue I've never seen so much as a sulky.
    Couple of real name places in Galway. Two Mile Ditch and Dyke Road.
    Is the Black Box still on Dyke Rd ?


  • #80
    Thelonious Monk
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    Tranquility Grove, Coolock.


  • #81
    cdeb
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    Good shout - nowhere near the moon.

    (All those streets were named after the Apollo missions - Apollo Way, Eagle Park, Armstrong Walk and Aldrin Walk as well)


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  • #82
    odyssey06
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.

    Yep. There had been an island in that vicinity, known as Clontarf Island.
    But the building of the 'bull' walls led to stripping of sediment until the Island was washed away in a great storm in 1844 with a tragic loss of life.
    https://www.loveclontarf.ie/about/history-of-clontarf/clontarf-island/

    Think East Point was reclaimed using rubbish from construction sites, starting in the 80s.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #83
    appledrop
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    California Hills Park Ballyfermot.

    Also Claddagh Rd, Spiddle Rd, Oranmore Rd etc in Ballyfermot no where near anywhere in Galway!


  • #84
    appledrop
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    Bundle of Sticks roundabout in Naas.

    Now I have to admit I think its a brilliant name for a roundabout, but there is no bundle of sticks in sight!


  • #85
    Thelonious Monk
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Yep. There had been an island in that vicinity, known as Clontarf Island.
    But the building of the 'bull' walls led to stripping of sediment until the Island was washed away in a great storm in 1844 with a tragic loss of life.
    https://www.loveclontarf.ie/about/history-of-clontarf/clontarf-island/

    Think East Point was reclaimed using rubbish from construction sites, starting in the 80s.

    Yes it was William Bligh of mutiny on the Bounty fame who surveyed the bay prior to the wall being built.
    Never knew about the island!


  • #86
    Zebra3
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.

    It is. The football pitches on Alfie Byrne Road used be always called off at the first drop of rain because it's reclaimed land but I think the pitches down there are artificial now.

    EDIT-Off topic but a great story about the area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Crescent


  • #87
    An Ri rua
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    afro man wrote: »
    Some crackers in Wexford

    Bastardstown,
    Fannystown

    Both may be highly accurate rather than ironic though. Unless you can verify the lack of both in same.


  • #88
    An Ri rua
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    Sesame St was the old name for Kildare St.

    Which is rather ironic as it's now where the Irish franchise of the Muppet Show is filmed...


  • #89
    An Ri rua
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    cdeb wrote: »
    Leopardstown is an obvious one actually. No leopards at all. The Irish name gives it away - Baile na Lobhar - Town of the lepers. It was the site of a lepers' hospital in the middle ages.

    Plenty of dead men walking after most races. Bookie vampires gorging on their lifeblood.


  • #90
    whisky_galore
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    Mallow, neither soft nor sweet.


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  • #91
    An Ri rua
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    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Borris in Ossory.

    What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

    He's descended from werewolves. If you have to ask, don't ask in a local pub. People disappear.







    http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/talk/banshees/werewolf.shtm


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