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American places named after Irish cities

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  • 15-01-2012 5:09pm
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    PerrinV2
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    Just saw there that there's a Dublin city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States named after our own place here.
    Is this the only american place named after an irish one? can't imagine there's many more


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    tac foley
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    PerrinV2 wrote: »
    Just saw there that there's aDublin city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States named after our own place here.
    Is this the only american place named after an irish one? can't imagine there's many more

    Uh.............

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    Munster Township, Pennsylvania
    Munster, Indiana
    Lisburn, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated place in Lower Allen Township, Pennsylvania
    Newry, Maine
    Newry Township, Minnesota
    Newry, Pennsylvania
    Ulster Township, Iowa
    Ulster County, New York
    Ulster Township, Pennsylvania
    Antrim, Louisiana
    Antrim, New Hampshire
    Antrim, New York
    Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio
    Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio
    Antrim, Pennsylvania
    Antrim County, Michigan
    Antrim Township, Michigan
    Antrim Township, Minnesota
    Antrim Township, Pennsylvania
    Belfast, Maine
    Belfast Township, Minnesota
    Belfast, New York
    Belfast, Pennsylvania
    Belfast Township, Pennsylvania
    Armagh, Pennsylvania
    Armagh Township, Pennsylvania
    Lurgan Township, Pennsylvania
    Hackettstown, New Jersey
    Clare County, Michigan
    Clare, Michigan
    Shannon County, Missouri
    Shannon County, South Dakota
    Corktown is a neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan and was an Irish enclave in the 19th century.
    Donegal, Pennsylvania
    Bangor is the name of 28 towns around the world, including Bangor, County Down. Some of these, such as Bangor, Maine are named after Bangor in Wales.
    Dublin, California
    Dublin, Georgia
    Dublin, Kentucky
    Dublin, Michigan
    Dublin, New Hampshire
    Dublin, Ohio
    Dublin, Texas
    Dublin, Virginia
    Dublin, Pennsylvania
    Dublin Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania
    Dublin Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
    Fermanagh Township, Pennsylvania
    Galway (town), New York
    Galway (village), New York
    Menlo, Georgia
    Menlo, Iowa
    Menlo, Kansas
    Menlo Park, California
    Menlo Park, New Jersey
    Killarney, Florida
    Kildare Township, Minnesota
    Kildare, Oklahoma
    Kildare, Wisconsin
    Kilkenny, Minnesota
    Kilkenny, New Hampshire
    Limerick, Georgia
    Limerick, Illinois
    Limerick, Mississippi
    Limerick, New York
    Limerick, Ohio
    Limerick, South Carolina
    Limerick Township, Pennsylvania — see also Limerick nuclear power plant
    Limerick, Maine
    New Limerick, Maine
    Coleraine, Minnesota
    Derry, New Hampshire
    Derry, Pennsylvania
    Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
    Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
    Derry Township, Montour County, Pennsylvania
    Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
    Londonderry, New Hampshire
    Londonderry, Vermont
    Londonderry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
    Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
    Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
    Baltimore County, Maryland, from Baron Baltimore, whose title was derived from a place in Longford called Baltimore
    Baltimore, Maryland
    Baltimore, Vermont
    Dundalk, Maryland
    Mayo, Florida
    Tara Township, Swift County, Minnesota
    Tara Township, Traverse County, Minnesota
    Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania
    Roscommon, Michigan
    Roscommon County, Michigan
    Sligo, Louisiana is an unincorporated place in Bossier Parish, Louisiana
    Sligo, Pennsylvania
    Strabane Township, North Dakota
    North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
    South Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
    Tyrone, Georgia
    Tyrone, Pennsylvania
    Tyrone Township, Kent County, Michigan
    Tyrone Township, Livingston County, Michigan
    Tyrone Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
    Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania
    Tyrone Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
    Lower Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
    Upper Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
    Cashel Township, Minnesota Note there are other places in Ireland named Cashel see the disambiguation page. The one in Tipperary is the best known.
    Waterford, Michigan
    Waterford, New York
    Waterford, Connecticut
    Avoca, Arkansas
    Avoca School District 37, Cook County, Illinois
    Avoca, Indiana
    Avoca, Iowa
    Avoca, Louisville, Kentucky
    Avoca, Kenockee Township, Michigan
    Avoca, Minnesota
    Avoca, Nebraska
    Avoca (town), New York
    Avoca (village), New York
    Avoca, Pennsylvania
    Avoca, Texas
    Avoca, Wisconsin
    Glendalough State Park, Minnesota
    Rathdrum, Idaho
    Wexford County, Michigan
    Wexford Township, Michigan

    tac


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    PerrinV2
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    Sweet Jebus!


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    richardjjd
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    Joseph O'Connor's book - Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America - was based on his visit to the nine places in the US called Dublin. A good read, as far as I can remember.

    According to the blurb on the Easons website:
    [...] visit the nine different towns called Dublin ... New Hampshire, Pennysylvannia, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Texas, Las Vegas and California - to name a few...


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    richardjjd
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    And the 1987 Ryder Cup was held in Dublin, Ohio (that was the one where Eamon D'Arcy won the match).


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    slowburner
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    Hollywood


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    NotCarrotRidge
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    There's a townland called Boston on the Loughrea-Portumna road. Dublin, Ohio is quite a large city. There are loads and loads of American (and Canadian and Australian) placenames with Irish origins.


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    yermanoffthetv
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    Ennis, Texas. Dundalk, Ontario Canada etc ...Id say the list is shockingly long if you consider the amount of Irish emmigration.


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    Richard
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    NotCarrotRidge wrote: »
    There's a townland called Boston on the Loughrea-Portumna road. Dublin, Ohio is quite a large city. There are loads and loads of American (and Canadian and Australian) placenames with Irish origins.

    I think Boston is named after Boston in Lincolnshire.


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    snubbleste
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    The NH towns of Derry and Londonderry are situated next to each other. Very odd.


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    Nemesis
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    Quite a few Avoca's considering the size of the village.


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    Soundsphere
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    They did that with other countries/places as well. There are a quite a few Frankfurts and Berlins over there is the US as well.


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    V_Moth
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Uh.............

    Munster, Indiana

    tac
    Soundsphere wrote: »
    They did that with other countries/places as well. There are a quite a few Frankfurts and Berlins over there is the US as well.

    The town in Indiana is named after a Dutch guy. There is a large town in Germany called Münster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster), which may account for the other "Munster" in the list.

    I think Germans make up the largest group of immigrants into the US, which would explain the US towns named after places in Germany.


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    ciara84
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Uh.............


    Baltimore County, Maryland, from Baron Baltimore, whose title was derived from a place in Longford a town/village in Cork called Baltimore
    fixed

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=baltimore,+ireland&hl=en&ll=49.066668,-9.008789&spn=18.243878,46.538086&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.848534,93.076172&hnear=Baltimore,+County+Cork,+Ireland&t=m&z=5


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    slowburner
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    Nemesis wrote: »
    Quite a few Avoca's considering the size of the village.
    Nearly all the 'other' Avocas are have a connection with mining, just like the original.
    The other thing is that many Cornish miners worked and settled in Avoca, over the course of its mining history.
    Cornish miners are legendary for going 'wherever there is a hole in the ground'.


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    Duggys Housemate
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    Pretty amazed after the success of the wire that Baltimore was not known


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    Subpopulus
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Uh.............

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Munster Township, Pennsylvania
    Munster, Indiana

    tac

    Bear in mind that that may also be of Munster, Germany, albeit without the umlaut. The Board of Geographic Names was founded in the 1890s in the US to stamp out errant exotic European diacritics and standardise US town names

    Town and city names in the US endlessly fascinate me. Rarely have people ever encoutered such a huge patch of land that required naming. Mostly they just borrowed existing names from european places or named a town after some forgotten dignitary who happened to be holding office at the time. A surprising amount of US names are acually derived from indigenous names. Connecticut comes to mind, though it started as Quonectacaut, or something to that effect.

    There's an excellent chapter in Bill Bryson's book Made in America on the naming practices of early America.


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