How, when, and why did Kilmacanogue lose the letter U?

LordSutch · 06-02-2013 12:29AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

If you go to the census of 1841 or 1871 or any census it is spelled Kilmacanoge. If you look at any Ordnance Survey map of Wicklow from any date you will not find anywhere called Kilmacanogue.

It is not unusual for local variations of placenames to become accepted as standard but there always has to be only one legal version and it is Kilmacanoge. Another example which caused controversy when the NRA used the legal version is Caher Co Tipperary (yes Caher is the correct legal version) but the variation Cahir was accepted as standard by most people.

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/16380/eppi_pages/434672

So sometime after 1871 the 'ogue' was adopted by the locals which then became the norm for whatever
reason, and now over a hundred and forty yars later years later, the council has finally rectified it.

Many Thanks for that dxhound2005, question answered, mystery solved.

Thread closed.

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Capt'n Midnight · 06-02-2013 02:11AM

trad wrote: »

Who changed the Zoo to Zú?

Gáirdín na nAinmhith was never going to survive the signage cutbacks.

Still miss Sú

MadsL · 06-02-2013 08:48AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0

Capt'n Midnight · 06-02-2013 02:26PM

During the Great Depression they had to shorten Hollywoodland.

And the only way they could keep "New York, New York" was to change "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula" to L.A.

ThisRegard · 06-02-2013 03:07PM

The bigger issue is how to pronounce it, Kil-ma-chanic or Kill-mac-an-ogue ?

How, when, and why did Kilmacanogue lose the letter U?

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