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Silly Irish place names

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    #62
    arctic lemur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭arctic lemur


    skaheenarinky
    newtwomilepothouse
    Crookstown (cork and kildare)
    Ovens

    All in Cork!!!


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    #63
    Narcissus
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Narcissus


    Cork
    Mayo
    Leitrim
    Tip her hairy

    :D:D


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    #64
    cargrouch
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    artic lemur wrote:
    skaheenarinky
    newtwomilepothouse
    Crookstown (cork and kildare)
    Ovens

    All in Cork!!!

    Wracked my brain trying to think of skaheenarinky, brain kept substituting rinkydinky and other rubbish instead.

    Crookstown must look great on job applications etc!

    Fivemilebridge in Cork. Near Halfway. Halfway must have been taken so they decided, ah shure tis only five miles to a bridge, lets call it that?
    (There's a similar place in Clare, Sixmilebridge,yeah?)

    Excellent, just remembered - Castlefreke near Rosscarbery in Cork.


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    #65
    N90user
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    Tipp her hairy mountains ;)


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    #66
    chamlis
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    c - 13 wrote:
    Muff in Co. Donegal
    You can find it easy enough on google earth.

    Supposedly theres also a place called Bastardtown in Wexford too.
    Dont know if that ones true though.


    hehehe. There is actually a Muff Diving School. Swear to God.


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    #67
    Kolodny
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    'Kilmacow' in Kilkenny. Always makes me think of a Texan farmer drawling "Hey sonny, did you kill ma cow?"
    cargrouch wrote:
    Excellent, just remembered - Castlefreke near Rosscarbery in Cork.

    Hmmm...that's where one side of my family come from :)


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    #68
    Agamemnon
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    cargrouch wrote:
    Fivemilebridge in Cork.

    Isn't there a Sixmilebridge in Clare?


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    #69
    Zaph
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    Horetown, Co. Wexford


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    #70
    snickerpuss
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    I thought chapelizod was stupid til i found out what it meant - séipéal iseult - iseult's chapel. It was just badly anglicised like most other names.

    By the ways muff comes from the irish magh or plain.

    *nerd*


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    #71
    Cravez
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    In the "Muff" place up north apparently there is a swimming pool and its called "The Muff Diving Center"! :D


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    #72
    arctic lemur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭arctic lemur


    cargrouch wrote:

    Crookstown must look great on job applications etc!

    .


    I actually live there when i'm home at weekends. Had no prob getting Jobs but students in Galway slagged me something else over it when I was teaching there!

    Also,
    Assacullia in Cavan,
    Ballylooby in Cork,


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    #73
    Angels
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    Theres a place in west cork called 'Gaggin', i taught it was funny!! loadsa funny place names in wexford. 'Ramsgrange' very funny.


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    #74
    deman
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    Enough of the repeats already!!

    There's a place in Westmeath called Crookedwood that always brough a smile to my face.

    Some nice heifers there as well :D


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
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    You do know that if you are travelling to muff, you have to go throught kates gap in Donegal!:D


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    #76
    deman
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    Fairyhouse


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    #77
    deman
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    By the way, does anyone know if Muff have a beauty pageant at their festivals?

    I wonder who the current Miss Muff is?


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    #78
    smashey
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    Deleted User wrote:
    You do know that if you are travelling to muff, you have to go throught kates gap in Donegal!:D

    Actually, it is Grainne's Gap and it is on the mountain road from Muff to Buncrana.


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    #79
    aidjtk
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    the ones on cork are all true
    ovens
    halfway( between cork and bandon I think)
    five mile bridge ( five miles from cork)
    leap( near clonakilty)
    NEWtwopothouse (limerick road)
    gaggin ( around bandon)
    kilbritain(yes there is a place, subtle isn't it)

    waterford ran out of good names
    lismore
    tramore
    ardmore
    dunmore thats just lazy

    there is a B & B around bantry in cork and it is called ( as has a sign showing same out front)
    do cum in (that exact spelling no graffiti or nothing)


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    #80
    Goodshape
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    snickerpuss wrote:
    By the ways muff comes from the irish magh or plain.
    Lol - must remember that. Quite fitting really, boring aul place.


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    #81
    ShagNastii
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    Wexford boy here not far from bastardstown but it was changed when nuns used to live there, its only a really really small townland always go to the beach there many now call it seaview. Also in my facinatiy was the aforemention horetown. But more rually is Horesland and Fannystown


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    #82
    TomTom
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    There is a banagher in offaly but there is a coolbanagher in laois.

    There is a blueball, between kilcormac and tullamore.
    There is a place on off the poartlaoise road called clonnagadoo. Not sure of the spelling but it's a really long word.

    Offerlane in laoise also


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    #83
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Townslands
    Spa Hill - nr Urlingford
    Moneyballytyrrell - nr Portlaoise
    Ballyouskill - nr Ballinakill
    Bishopswood - nr Durrow
    Fox and Geese - nr Dublin

    Towns
    Hacketstown - Co. Carlow
    Bangor - Co. Down
    Beleek - Co. Fermanagh
    Wellingtonbridge - Co. Wexford


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    #84
    demanufactured
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    Theres a town in herts called tillit , Theres a pub there called the cockwell inn....The owner is called lucy likes...

    The address is,

    Lucy likes
    The Cockwell Inn
    Tillit herts


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    #85
    R0ot
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    petes wrote:
    Muff.

    Everyone always says this but there is a larger picture, on your way through Muff in Co.Donegal you can head along a road to a place called gronia's (spelling is a girls name but i can't remember how to spell it) gap also there is another place near to muff just outside buncrana called cockhill.

    :D


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    #86
    stepbar
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    Crockawaddy, wont find this on a map though :D, tis a townland name where I live at home


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    #87
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    what's wrong with hacketstown?


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    #88
    Redrocket
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    your mother came from there,
    ohh and im still banned from the fashion forum you ass


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    #89
    Mexicola
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    Templescoby, Co. Wexford
    2 Mile Borris ... down near New Ross.


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    #90
    Archeron
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    blanjlix wrote:
    Trim (didnt realise the significance until I learned in the US its slang for ...)

    Step-A-Side (Dublin)

    What is it slang for in the US?


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    #91
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    stevenk wrote:
    your mother came from there,
    ohh and im still banned from the fashion forum you ass

    lol

    it's my way of making sure you'll never forget me :)


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