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Peculiar placenames in Ireland

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  • #62
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Hymenstown, Co Tipperary, between Golden and Cahir.


  • #63
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Also near Golden, a handwritten register appeared to show Ballylusty, but the OSI map shows it as Ballyhusty.


  • #64
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Ballyhooly in North Cork, close to the house Michael Flatley bought.No real hooley town, though.

    Horetown , Co. Wexford, where there used to be a riding school, seriously.

    Poulacapple- the horse's hole in Co. Tipp http://tinyurl.com/jadbpsd

    What about Gneeveguilla in Co Kerry, causing non locals to strain muscles to pronounce it correctly
    http://tinyurl.com/ja4vjgk


  • #65
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Ballyhooly in North Cork, close to the house Michael Flatley bought.No real hooley town, though.

    Horetown , Co. Wexford, where there used to be a riding school, seriously.

    Poulacapple- the horse's hole in Co. Tipp http://tinyurl.com/jadbpsd

    What about Gneeveguilla in Co Kerry, causing non locals to strain muscles to pronounce it correctly
    http://tinyurl.com/ja4vjgk
    I once stayed in a place called Moneyhore. Also in Wexford.

    I dunno, Gneeveguilla has a flow to it - to my ear.


  • #66
    Candlewick
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭Candlewick


    Ballyragget is a peculiar name.


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  • #67
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,350 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I always wondered about this one, a strange name. Termonfeckin, County Louth. http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #68
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Termon = place of sanctuary, Feicin -= a holy person or saint.

    Termonfeckin = Saint Feicin's place of sanctuary or monastery.


  • #69
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    Tandragree, Co Armagh, home of proper Tayto, is Tóin re Gaoith also.

    Can anyone explain why Castleblayney is missing the first Y on NI signposts?


    Wash your mouth out.

    ---

    Bweeng (An Boinn), Co Cork


    https://www.logainm.ie/en/1166983?s=bweeng


  • #70
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Charles Babbage wrote: »

    Can anyone explain why Castleblayney is missing the first Y on NI signposts?
    Variant spelling, Sir Edward Blayney may or may not have used it.

    Logainm also gaelicises it as Caislean Bleine, although before Blayney's time the place was called Baile Leargan.


  • #71
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    placenames with the word TOWN in them are very common throughout Ireland, but im just wondering where are they most common and least common. Even townlands as well as towns and villages. examples are mitchelstown co cork or milltown dublin etc. i have found that there seems to be a very big absence of these names in counties cavan and lietrim.


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  • #72
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    placenames with the word TOWN in them are very common throughout Ireland, but im just wondering where are they most common and least common. Even townlands as well as towns and villages. examples are mitchelstown co cork or milltown dublin etc. i have found that there seems to be a very big absence of these names in counties cavan and lietrim.
    That would be an interesting project for the GIS heads in here.


  • #73
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    America in Co.Roscommon.


  • #74
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    That would be an interesting project for the GIS heads in here.

    Indeed it would.
    Obviously the addition of '...town' is an anglicisation of the Irish 'baile' (often anglicised to Bally...).
    It would also be interesting to see an overlay of Anglo/Irish population densities and how that compares to the frequency of places ending with '...town'.
    I suppose the question for the GIS folk would be the choice of period. That could be a very challenging dataset to work with.


  • #75
    Hesh's Umpire
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    A few kilometres north of Rathdowney, Co Laois is the townland of Akip.

    As in "I live in Akip"!



  • #76
    john123470
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭john123470


    Meanus, Co Limerick - if not already mentioned in tne thread.

    There are 3 places called Meanus in Ireland, i believe

    I have a pic of a man with pants peeled down by same signpost exposing his rear end

    He titled it " the word made flesh in a flash"

    Pic might be a bit too strong for the tender hearted to include here



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