List of Irish place names outside Ireland.

massdebater · 12-03-2016 09:22PM

I'm from South Monaghan (Ireland) and my girlfriend is from South Monaghan, Canada!

toptom · 12-03-2016 09:29PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

My favourite is Bobby Sands Street .... In Tehran of all places!

Even better due to the British Embassy being there!
http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/britain-to-reopen-embassy-in-iran-on-bobby-sands-street-31466117.html

A terrorist and Iran, Nothing new there.
Athlone in California. who would have thought that eh.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-03-2016 09:32PM

Maynooth Ontario

VG31 · 12-03-2016 09:41PM

Dublinstraße in Munich and Göttingen.
Belfaststraße in Munich.

There's a few Dublinstraats in Belgium in the Netherlands as well.

12-03-2016 09:55PM

I had a chuckle when i had to get the BART underground from downtown San Francisco to Berkeley and had to get the one going towards Dublin

Just found out it was actually named after our Dublin according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California

skywalker · 12-03-2016 10:36PM

The junction of Clonsilla avenue and Landsdown street in Ontario.

syklops · 12-03-2016 10:51PM

gizmo555 wrote: »

Still working my way through a boxed set of "The Wire" that I got as a present. I wonder how many of the people of Baltimore know that it comes from "Baile an Tí Mhóir" in Longford.

I always assumed it came from Baltimore in Cork.

syklops · 12-03-2016 10:57PM

cisk wrote: »

I had a chuckle when i had to get the BART underground from downtown San Francisco to Berkeley and had to get the one going towards Dublin

Just found out it was actually named after our Dublin according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California

I stayed in Dublin California for a week. Its an absolute kip. There were about 5 pubs in the entire "city" of Dublin, all of them plastic paddy type affairs, except one which was a plastic Aussie one. My hotel was home of the "world famous" Ballybunion Grill and Bar. :rolleyes:

The rest of the "city" was strip malls. Not malls like youd have in most major cities but basically an enormous car park, surround on 3 sides by single storey stores, seemingly all either second hand or dirt cheap tat.

Ruu · 12-03-2016 11:02PM

MacauDragon wrote: »

Ballyjamesduff Tokyo.

I wonder if they sing Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff there as well!

gizmo555 · 13-03-2016 11:59AM

syklops wrote: »

I always assumed it came from Baltimore in Cork.

The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, (1605–1675), a member of the Irish House of Lords and the founding proprietor of the Colony and Province of Maryland. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Tí Mhóir, meaning "town of the big house", which was the name of the estate in County Longford on which the Calvert family lived, in Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore#Etymology

DanielODonnell · 13-03-2016 01:42PM

There is a large town called o'neill in Nebraska named after a monaghan man.

If i had my way though the USA would belong to the native tribes, many of the yanks even admit that they should have learned from the natives rather than the natives learned from them. why do you think the film Pocahontas was such a big hit.

Surely the Gaelic place names in Scotland can count due to the fact that it was Ulster tribesmen who brought it over there.

iamstop · 17-03-2016 11:59PM

There is a fair few streets here in Winnipeg (Canada) named for Irish places. Dublin, Wexford, Kilkenny are three I can think of off hand.

Lambsbread · 18-03-2016 07:14AM

What about Place de Dublin in Paris?

There is also the Ranelagh area in the west of Paris, which according to wikipedia was named after the Irish peer.

18-03-2016 10:18AM

There is a ancient Irish legend that proclaims there is a phantom island in the North Atlantic that is cloaked in mist, except for one day every seven years, and even then it was still not reachable, this island was called Brazil, or Hy-Brazil amongst many other names. On a map from Catalonia dating back to 1480 an island can be found, named "Illa de brasil" that lies to the south west of Ireland, the supposed location of the mystical island.(Source: Etymology of Brazil)

An island called Brazil (by a Brazilian)

Brasil (mythical island)

Hy-Brasil, the other Atlantis

feargale · 18-03-2016 06:51PM

New Ireland, an island of Papua-New Guinea.

Patty O Furniture · 19-03-2016 04:48AM

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Gas that there is a Hill of Tara,Louth,Navan and Wicklow on Mars.Didnt realise there were so many Dublin's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_place_names_in_other_countries

cisk wrote: »

I had a chuckle when i had to get the BART underground from downtown San Francisco to Berkeley and had to get the one going towards Dublin

Just found out it was actually named after our Dublin according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California

Yeah,that is hilarious, Dublin, California, saw it in recent Room To Improve as that family moved from there.

retalivity wrote: »

Talamh an eisc, or newfoundland in canada. Apparently the only place outside ireland with the irish name not derived from the local language

I heard on radio on Wed that Montserrat was the only other country than Ireland in the world for which St. Patrick’s Day is a public holiday.
But I found out that y'day that

St Patrick's Day is an official holiday in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador & is not a public holiday in other parts of Canada

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Here in New England ........ let me see ........ Londonderry, Derry, Stormont, Antrim, Hillsborough, Dublin ....... and that's without thinking it out.

Is that US?, as i heard last Summer from someone living in Philly, that it had that much Irish, they should have called it New Ireland, as i found out later that NFL player Tom Brady's dad is from Co. Cavan

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Calle o donnell in seville

Heading back to the airport in Spain last July, i happen to notice a bridge named after General O Donnell, taxi driver told me it was around the 1800's afaik, couldn't believe it when i saw it

Richard · 19-03-2016 04:56AM

syklops wrote: »

I always assumed it came from Baltimore in Cork.

I think it was after Lord Baltimore, who had an estate in Longford.

Richard · 19-03-2016 05:06AM

There's a Londonderry in North Yorkshire (no crossing out of "London" there!):

See roadsign on streetview here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3050597,-1.5599472,3a,75y,249.79h,79.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjI4TmnxZk0k-lroXNlO3FA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And there's a Londonderry Island in Chile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry_Island

The flying mouse · 19-03-2016 06:37AM

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Calle o donnell in seville

There is one in Madrid also , this is the lad here,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_O'Donnell,_1st_Duke_of_Tetuan

TheLastMohican · 19-03-2016 03:56PM

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Is that US?, as i heard last Summer from someone living in Philly, that it had that much Irish, they should have called it New Ireland, as i found out later that NFL player Tom Brady's dad is from Co. Cavan

Yes it is. New Hampshire to be more accurate. These towns would have been named by the Scots Irish that came to work the mills.

Patty O Furniture · 20-03-2016 09:49PM

skywalker wrote: »

The junction of Clonsilla avenue and Landsdown street in Ontario.

Is that in Cambridge, Ontario?

selous · 21-03-2016 08:25PM

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It also uses a shamrock on it's immigration stamp.
This probably explains why.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076

Mackman · 22-03-2016 08:33AM

Perth is full of street names from Ireland. The town I live in has Kilkenny Gardens and Portmarnock Circle.
One of Perth's suburbs is "O'Connor" too.

robinph · 22-03-2016 09:01AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

My favourite is Bobby Sands Street .... In Tehran of all places!

Even better due to the British Embassy being there!
http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/britain-to-reopen-embassy-in-iran-on-bobby-sands-street-31466117.html

That probably explains why the Irish Embassy in London is on Cromwell Road.

List of Irish place names outside Ireland.

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