mayo county nickname

purerandom

quick trivia question i want to confirm with the mayo faithful.

sligo is the yeats county, kerry is the kingdom.
what is mayo?
i looked it up and i get the maritime county\the heather county.
can anyone confirm which is correct?
anyone know what the Rosocommon one is aswell?

Neworder79

Soft and craggy bogland

Coillte_Bhoy

Ya generally known as the 'heather county' though 'header county' might be more appropriate. Have also heard it referred toa s the 'yew county'

nuac

IN the dim and distant past Galway people used to say " Mayo God help us" I think that went back to famine times.

That phrase seems to have died out around the time Mayo won the All Irelands in 1950 and 51.

Don't know of any particular nick name, but would go with "heather county". "yew county" would be somewhat tautological

westtip

nuac wrote: »

IN the dim and distant past Galway people used to say " Mayo God help us" I think that went back to famine times.

That phrase seems to have died out around the time Mayo won the All Irelands in 1950 and 51.

Don't know of any particular nick name, but would go with "heather county". "yew county" would be somewhat tautological

How about the bottlers county considering performances at Croke Park

dec25532

In relation to their performances in Croke Park, it could be described as the "calving county".

finisklin

nuac wrote: »

Don't know of any particular nick name, but would go with "heather county". "yew county" would be somewhat tautological

What's tautological?



Lucky we are on boards as I don't think I can pronounce it either! :cool:

nuac

Finiskiln

tautological - from Greek to auto logos = the same word

Mayo from Muigheo or Maigheo = Plain of the yews, so calling it the yew county would be repetition.

Would go with "heather county" as we have more heather than yews, especially since sheep numbers on the hills have fallen

finisklin

I learned something yew today...that can't be bad. Not sure if I'll be using it anytime soon though!

KoNiT

In relation to their performances in Croke Park,

we came 2nd more than a few times, yew know...

whadabouchasir

westtip wrote: »

How about the bottlers county considering performances at Croke Park

Well at least we can get to Croke park:D

mccloud333

Heather County

WesternZulu

"Mayo, God help us"

Seems to be a popular one, well its used by Galway/Roscommon people a bit.

Think the phrase comes from the famine when Mayo was one of the worst places in the country to feel its effects.

nuac

Western Zulu

I mentioned this already above - havent heard MGHU much in recent times. There is a rather unkind riposte to Roscommon people.

dec25532

Anything to do with sheep, by any chance nuac???

WesternZulu

dec25532 wrote: »

Anything to do with sheep, by any chance nuac???

Nah, you're thinking of the sheep stealers...aka roscommon.

barleybooley

nuac wrote: »

IN the dim and distant past Galway people used to say " Mayo God help us" I think that went back to famine times.

That phrase seems to have died out around the time Mayo won the All Irelands in 1950 and 51.

Don't know of any particular nick name, but would go with "heather county". "yew county" would be somewhat tautological

WesternZulu wrote: »

"Mayo, God help us"

Seems to be a popular one, well its used by Galway/Roscommon people a bit.

Think the phrase comes from the famine when Mayo was one of the worst places in the country to feel its effects.

Have only heard this in serious relation to our fair county but the folks in college would call it a "bog-hole" don't know where that come from in our over populated county

rossie1977

mayo are the rhubarbs

roscommon the sheepstealers

neiphin

rossie1977 wrote: »

mayo are the rhubarbs

roscommon the sheepstealers

it was only ever roscommon people i heard saying that.....rhubarbs

nuac

Never heard of "rhubarb" until I saw this post, and I am a long time around.