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Bilboa Limeirck?

  • 06-08-2013 1:09pm
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    periodictable
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    Driving in North Tipp/Limerick area I've been intrigued by the name of place called Bilboa.
    Can anyone shed light on the origin of the name?confused.png


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  • #2
    pigtown
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    Pronounced Bilbo. Comes from the Irish Béal Átha Bo, translates to the mouth of the ford of the cow. Home to a successful athletics club. Used to be a village in pre-famine times, now just a townland in Cappamore. Bilboa Court was the seat of the local landlord, in ruins by 1840, currently just a pile of stones in a field.
    http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2521


  • #3
    Jofspring
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    Pretty sure they named their soccer team athletic bilboa like the Spanish club Athletico Bilbao. Cool name in fairness.


  • #4
    Fries-With-That
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    periodictable wrote: »
    Driving in North Tipp/Limerick area I've been intrigued by the name of place called Bilboa.
    Can anyone shed light on the origin of the name?confused.png

    Some interesting information here too, just because its now Bilboa it might have been Ballyboe.

    http://www.anfalcarrachlecheile.com/PlaceNamesLogainmneacha.htm


  • #5
    pappyodaniel
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    On a similar subject, where did Montpelier across the river from O'Briensbridge get it's exotic name?


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