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Silliest Place Names in Ireland

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    #92
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Blarney.

    The only place in the world named after shíte talk.

    ;)


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    #93
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    I'm related to 98% of the people living there.

    We knew that already from your username :pac:


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    #94
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,352 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Sixmilebridge, Four Mile House, and I'm sure I've seen other variations on the theme.

    I've always wondered where those names came from.


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    #95
    wotswattage
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭wotswattage


    Has to be Newtwopothouse


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    #96
    porsche boy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭porsche boy


    I can go through tubacurry without hankerin after a chinese.
    Hackballscross just makes me wince in pain and the next person to say 'Live long in Prosperous' to me will get a kick in the hoop. Other than that all place names in ireland are fine


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    #97
    robclay26
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭robclay26


    The priests leap,
    In west cork


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    #98
    robclay26
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭robclay26


    Crookhaven - a haven for gangsters?


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    #99
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    Place somewhere in tipp called
    pol na muca
    which translated literally means hole of the pig.


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    #100
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    There's a townland near Leixlip, and a place in Drogheda colloquially called Passifyoucan :)


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    #101
    cocoman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭cocoman


    Muckanaghederdauhaulia.

    It's real. Look it up.


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    #102
    Tedddy
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Tedddy


    Doody's Bottoms


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    #103
    robclay26
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭robclay26


    Gay brook near Mullingar


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    #104
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    I'm related to 98% of the people living there.

    Only 98%? :confused:


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    #105
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    robclay26 wrote: »
    The priests leap,
    In west cork

    That is a bad road on the horse and trap.


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    #106
    Hector Mildew
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Hector Mildew


    Place in Westmeath called Crazy Corner


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    #107
    philstar
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    hack-balls-cross

    ouch!! viscous sounding place


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    #108
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    heyday30 wrote: »
    Place somewhere in tipp called
    pol na muca
    which translated literally means hole of the pig.

    Played many a hurling tournament there back in the day.
    A road near where I grew up in Tipp is called Dead Man's Boreen.


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    #109
    sheesh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    Riverstick
    its an actual place it is in county Cork.


    Actually dig out a map of wexford and have a look at the townlands there.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_Wexford


    Fannystown

    *Giggles


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    #110
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Drumsna in Leitrim, parodied I think by Brian O'Rourke in his Drumsnot song.

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



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    #111
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    Ringaskiddy


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    #112
    scuba8
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭scuba8


    Lixnaw, Swanlinbar and not forgetting Fumbally lane in the liberties.


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    #113
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    Isn't there a place near sligo called "tub a curry" well tubbercurry ; )


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    #114
    Gaelgangnuis
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Gaelgangnuis


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Haven't created a thread here in a while but just came up with this one, was watching one of these dull refurbishment programmes on RTE 1 last night, I think its called Room to Improve or something like that, but there was one particular area called Termonfeckin in County Louth, who in gods name came up with that, it sounds like it was named by someone with a poitin habit and a slight case of tourettes. Anyone know any oddly named places in Ireland?

    The British Army/Ordinance Survey named it when they went around the country creating ridiculous bastardizations of the original Irish Names.


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    #115
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


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    #116
    SillyMangoX
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Sixmilebridge, Four Mile House, and I'm sure I've seen other variations on the theme.

    I've always wondered where those names came from.

    Sixmilebridge got its name because there were two ways to get to limerick from there, both being 6 old Irish miles. Or something along those lines!

    Newtwopothouse never fails to make me giggle whenever we pass a sign.


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    #117
    whereto now
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭whereto now


    Leopardstown.... Leopards !!! I think it dates back to when there was a leper colony there, I'm sure I read tht somewhere or was it a dream......


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    #118
    Jake The Fat Ma
    Registered Users Posts: 366 ✭✭Jake The Fat Ma


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    I always liked Ballinasack in Mullaghbawn.
    I can only assume Ball-In-A-Sack is Gaelic for scrotum

    Hackballscross as well. That whole south Armagh/north Louth region is historically obsessed with balls

    Ballsmill


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    #119
    Cookie_Dough
    Registered Users Posts: 6,830 ✭✭✭Cookie_Dough


    A bit specific but "Hole in the Wall Road" in Donaghmede in Dublin. Completely ridiculous name for a road.


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    #120
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,220 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Hector Mildew wrote: »
    Place in Westmeath called Crazy Corner

    That's where I'm from. It's THE crazy corner :P

    Edit to add: I'm actually from between the crazy corner and a place called "Pass Me If You Can"


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    #121
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Has to be said.

    Muff.


    And by the way: Tearmann Feichín, means "Féchín's refuge''

    Lovely place to live, too!


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