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Carrickgollogan - Who is Katty Gallagher?

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  • 26-09-2012 8:21pm
    #1
    Sure it will be grand
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭


    This is a colloquial name for Carrickgollogan. Any idea who Katty/Catty/Kathy Gallagher is? I can't find anything on Google.

    This is a long shot, but the Irish name is Carraig Uallacháin. Any info on this Uallacháin person/family? Local knowledge is probably long gone by now.

    Grma.


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    #2
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Best source for the name is here:
    http://source.southdublinlibraries.ie/bitstream/10599/5234/1/ramble_book_fa.pdf

    Page 41, which reckons its just a nickname due to pronunciation issues.

    Otherwise local legend is that it was named for her after she took her life by jumping off in 1800s after attending a burial there. It is reputed to have been a 'wailing wall'. Also that the Bray pub took its name for same reason also.


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    #3
    Casinoking
    Registered Users Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    My family has lived under that hill for generations and I never heard a story about any person called "Kathy Gallagher". I always understood it was just an Anglicised version of the Irish name, no more than that.


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