Strange Place Names

JupiterKid

How did Dolphin's Barn actually get its very off the wall name?

Were there actual dolphins there many a year ago and they lived in a watery barn?:pac:

How about Hospital in Limerick? Oola in Limerick?

Nobber in Meath? Balloo in Down? Youghal in Cork? Boho in Fermanagh?

Emo in Laois?

Julius Seizure

HON TERMONFECKIN :pac:

An Coilean

JupiterKid wrote: »

How did Dolphin's Barn actually get its very off the wall name?

Were there actual dolphins there many a year ago and they lived in a watery barn?:pac:

How about Hospital in Limerick? Oola in Limerick?

Nobber in Meath? Balloo in Down? Youghal in Cork? Boho in Fermanagh?

Emo in Laois?

I suggest you find out the Irish version of those names, thats where they all came from;)

TheBody

Muff

Dangerous Man

I think Dolphin's Barn got its name from a local trader in the area. Dolphyn.

MaxSteele

I could never understand why some of the roughest holes in the city got such charming and upmarket names.

Fatima Mansions, O'Devanney gardens, Poppintree and council estate streets having names like Villa's and gardens

Ironic to say the least.

Lady Chatterton

Bodyke
Feakle
Ogonnelloe

(All villages in Co. Clare)

Where To

Cork got it's name from being something you shove up your arse.

Lady Chatterton

Twopothouse - Cork

Intensive Care Bear

When i lived in Limerick i used to see signs for a town called Meanus. I always wish there would be crash there so i could hear on the news about a large pile up in Meanus.

ChunkyLover_53

Two-Mile Borris

They named the town after a local male Porn Star

Also Nenagh is where they manufacture Ambulances...think about it..

TadhgSk

Fagg0t hill

Dangerous Man

MaxSteele wrote: »

I could never understand why some of the roughest holes in the city got such charming and upmarket names.

Fatima Mansions, O'Devanney gardens, Poppintree and council estate streets having names like Villa's and gardens

Ironic to say the least.

Funnily enough, Fatima Mansions was actually changed to Fatima Gardens in the 80s. It didn't hold though - still referred to as the Mansions.

aujopimur

Two from Cork
Baile na mbocht / Mayfield.
Hangdog Rd. / Tramore Rd.

The Longfellow

JupiterKid wrote: »

Oola in Limerick?

I heard a story once of an American tourist asking someone in Cashel for directions to 00 L.A.

Micky Dolenz

Ponders End in London. Always liked the name.

jessiejam

MrsD007 wrote: »

Twopothouse - Cork

I believe its newtwopothouse. Maybe there was some refurbishment done or something:p

Archeron

Misery hill in Dublin 2.
Nurney in kildare, everytime I see that sign I think of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

Killer Wench

Knob Noster, Missouri

Climax, Minnesota

Agricola

Ballycocksuas in Co. Kilkenny

Statistically the village with highest birthrate in the country in 2009

Cos they all have hard penises!

Dangerous Man

Bastardstown. There. It's done now.

1ZRed

TadhgSk wrote: »

Fagg0t hill

Cock face mountain

Biggins

Has the obvious one, "Ballsbridge" been mentioned yet?

Mr.Crinklewood

"Trim" Is a bit a oxymoron, as it's full of fat bastards.

Biggins

China:
Wan King
****

USA:
Intercourse
Knob Lick

Germany:
Dicking

Chad:
Dildo

Iran:
Sh1t

France:
Pussy

Just one or two more:

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Assawoman (VA, USA)
Badgers Mount (Kent, UK)
Ballville (Ohio, USA)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver (Pennsylvania)
Beaver Creek (Minnesota)
Beaver Falls (Pennsylvania)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Bell End near Lickey End (Wales, UK)
Bird-in-Hand (Pennsylvania, USA)
Big Knob (Kentucky, USA)
Big Ugly (West Virginia)
Black Charlie's Opening (Australia)
Blue Ball, near Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Booze Moor (Nth Moor,UK)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Buck Snort (TN. USA)
Bumpass, (VA. USA)
Cape Cockburn (NT, Australia, near Croker Island)
Chorlton Cum Hardy ( Lancs, UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Climax (NC, USA)
Climax (Pennsylvania, USA)
Cockburn (Australia)
Cockermouth (West Lake District, Cumbria. UK)
Cockland (Ohio, USA)
Cocktown (Wexford, Ireland)
Cockup (Lake District, Cumbria. UK)
Cooter (Missouri, USA)
Cumming (GA. USA)
**** (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Defiance (Ohio)
Dik**** (India)
Dildo (again!) (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Due West (South Carolina, USA)
Dunnydoo (NSW, Australia)
Dyckesville (Wisconsin, USA)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Eighty-Four (Pennsylvania, USA)
Elephant Butte (New Mexico, USA)
Erect (NC, USA)
****ing, (Austria)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Glasscock (Texas, USA)
Great Cockup & Little Cockup (2 hills in The Lake District, UK )
Head Of Grassy (Kentucky)
Hell (Texas)
Hicksville (New York, USA)
Hicksville (Ohio, USA)
High Point, Climax, With Intercourse (3 neighbouring US towns, PA)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Horneyman (Kent, UK)
Humptulips, (Washington, USA)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Iron Knob (Qld., Australia)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Jim Thorpe (formerly Monkchunk, Pennsylvania, USA)
Knob Lick (Kentucky, USA)
Knob Lick (Missouri, USA)
Knob Noster (Missouri, USA)
Lake Minnewanka (Canada)
Lake Poopo (Peru / Bolivia)
Lake Titicaca (Peru / Bolivia) which flows into Lake Poopo
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lizard Lick, North Carolina
Long BentonLong (Newcastle UK)
Long Dong (Guangxi, China)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Lost (uk)
Lower Piddle on the Marsh (Gloucestershire, UK)
Lovejoy (GA. USA)
Loyalsockville (PA, USA)
Mianus, (Ct. USA.)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Morehead City (NC, USA)
Mount Mee (Qld., Australia)
Mount Ringwood (NT, Australia, SE of Darwin)
Mount Titlis (Switzerland)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nob End (Bolton, UK)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Onacock (Virginia, USA)
Once Brewed & Twice Brewed, both near Corbridge, UK
Twatt Orkney, Scotland, UK
Panic (Pennsylvania)
Pecker's Point (Newfoundland, Canada)
Penny (B.C., Canada)
Petting (Germany)
Phuket (Thailand)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Pratts Bottom in Orpington (England)
Prickwillow (England)
Pussy Creak (Ireland)
Seaman (Ohio, USA)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
****agoo Lake (Quebec, Canada)
****lingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Six Mile Bottom (Cambridge, UK)
Slackbottom (Yorkshire, UK)
Sugar Tit (Kentucky, USA)
Sugar Tit (South Carolina, USA)
The Wee House, Piddletrentide, Dorset
Three Cocks (Wales, UK)
Titless (Switzerland)
Titley (Herefordshire, UK)
Titting (Germany)
Tittybong (Australia)
Titty Ho (England)
Titz (Germany)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Turkey City (Pennsylvania)
Turnip Hole (Pennsylvania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Ugly (uk)
Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker (East Sussex, U.K.)
Vulcan (Alberta Canada)
**** (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
**** River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)
Wetwang (East Yorkshire, UK)
Wideopen (Newcastle UK)
Willey (Herefordshire, UK)
Wyre Piddle (Worcestershire, UK)

Dangerous Man

Well there you go. Biggins just fucked the thread.

Biggins

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Well there you go. Biggins just fucked the thread.

Its the only thing I've 'done' in that way, this week!

1ZRed

Black Charlie's Opening in Australia sounds like a nice place to raise a family.

SEPT 23 1989

Bundle of Sticks

JupiterKid

Don't forget the village of F*cking in Austria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****ing,_Austria

donegal_road

Black Repentance, Co. Donegal (no. 6 on the list)

Colmustard

Neverland or Holland.

louthguy25

Hackballscross in Louth is another odd place name cant believe it wasnt mentioned yet

Colmustard

Fukcnotthisplaceagain France.

SEPT 23 1989

Chapel iZod Dublin

John Doe1

Raphoe in county donegal, actually pronounced raf-foe and not a colony started by tupac as you might assume

Richard

Biggins wrote: »

Muff (Northern Ireland)

Close, but it's actually in Donegal.

I always found Westward Ho! In Devon to be a strange name, and I think it's only one of two places in the world to have an exclamation mark in its name.

And then there's Scunthorpe.

ErnieBert

A tourist in Galway asked me where the Black Box is?

I said it's on the Dyke Road.

He didn't believe me

http://galwayartsfestival.ticketsolve.com/venues/900236/shows

byhookorbycrook

MrsD007 wrote: »

Twopothouse - Cork

That would be Newtwopothouse,to be totally accurate.

Many names are corruptions of the Irish names.

say_who_now?

1210m5g wrote: »

When i lived in Limerick i used to see signs for a town called Meanus. I always wish there would be crash there so i could hear on the news about a large pile up in Meanus.

Damn you 1210, that was always my contribution when these threads came up, but at least Biggins list missed out on Shepherd's Bush in London and Brest in France!

EoghanIRL

Americans trying to pronounce youghal . Lol

The Longfellow

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

That would be Newtwopothouse,to be totally accurate.

Many names are corruptions of the Irish names.

True, but Newtwopothouse in Irish is a straight translation Tigh Nua an Da Phota, which I find equally as good.

The Longfellow

say_who_now? wrote: »

Damn you 1210, that was always my contribution when these threads came up, but at least Biggins list missed out on Shepherd's Bush in London and Brest in France!

There is a Rue de Brest in Rennes.
I would never rue de brest

LordSutch

The New Russian Village,
Kilquade, Co Wicklow

byhookorbycrook

The Longfellow wrote: »

True, but Newtwopothouse in Irish is a straight translation Tigh Nua an Da Phota, which I find equally as good.

It was originally named as a landmark , so would probably not have been known in Irish as a placename, in the same way a town/townland would have.

say_who_now?

The Longfellow wrote: »

say_who_now? wrote: »

Damn you 1210, that was always my contribution when these threads came up, but at least Biggins list missed out on Shepherd's Bush in London and Brest in France!

There is a Rue de Brest in Rennes.
I would never rue de brest

Nobody ever gets the irony of calling it the "I fell" tower...

conor.hogan.2

Lovers' walk cork - awww.
Lána na Lobhair - :rolleyes:

rainbowdrop

Richard wrote: »

Close, but it's actually in Donegal.

I always found Westward Ho! In Devon to be a strange name, and I think it's only one of two places in the world to have an exclamation mark in its name.

And then there's Scunthorpe.

I grew up in Scunthorpe. Anywhere there were sign's with the town's name on it, people would either steal the 1st and last 5 letters, or spraypaint over them. 'CUNT HOSPITAL' 'CUNT LEISURE CENTRE' 'CUNT BUS STATION' etc.

Best of all was when local lads got onto the motorway that bypasses the place and spray painted the signs. Imagine approaching the town from the motorway at 70mph, to be greeted by a giant blue sign that says 'CUNT - Exit 200metres':D

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

D1stant

Kiek in de Kök. Tallin Estonia

Its a UNESCO world heritage site & really nice















but christ does it hurt

dgt

Horetown Co. Wexford. Excellent restaurant
Bastardstown, Co. Wexford...
Muff Co Donegal

And speaking of Muffs, Muff Crescent in Nobber Co. Meath

The Longfellow

say_who_now? wrote: »

Nobody ever gets the irony of calling it the "I fell" tower...

The tower itself is very iron-y!







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