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Silliest Place Names in Ireland

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    #152
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Gaggin
    between Bandon and Clonakilty.


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    #153
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Not really silly but there's a Boston in Co.Galway and a Long Island in Co.Cork.

    That Boston is in co. Clare, between Gort and Corofin.
    It's just a bunch of houses over a stretch of a mile at the edge of the Burren National Park.


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    #154
    Fluorosilisic Frank
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Fluorosilisic Frank


    Crazy Corner, Co.Westmeath


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    #155
    skittles8710
    Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    Oldtwopothouse/Newtwopothouse Co. Cork are my faves


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    #156
    [Deleted User]
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    Can't be bothered going through the full 11 pages to see if this one has been mentioned, but I challenge anyone to come up with a better one than Meanus Co. Limerick.

    The closer you get to it the more likely you are to se the letters "me" blacked out by spray paint, a joke that's seemingly every bit as hilarious today as it was when teenagers first discovered spray paint all those decades ago.


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    #157
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Hospital. What an utterly stupid name for a place that doesn't even have a hospital.

    Ballinamuck in Longford.

    Ballydehobb which I used to think was a made up name until a few years ago.

    Sneem. Say no more.


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    #158
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Schull, co. Cork.


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    #159
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,177 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Hospital. What an utterly stupid name for a place that doesn't even have a hospital...

    The name goes back about 800 years, to the Knights Hospitaller.


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    #160
    Dramatik
    Registered Users Posts: 913 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    Borris-in-Ossory. Co. Laois

    Muckanaghederdauhaulia. Co. Galway


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    #161
    Meathlass
    Registered Users Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Meathlass


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Hospital. What an utterly stupid name for a place that doesn't even have a hospital. .

    The Knights Hospitaller were based there hence the name


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    #162
    Korat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭Korat


    I met a tourist looking for At Henry in Galway. Not being from there I shrugged and said I hadn't heard of it. I was feeling pretty embarrassed a couple minutes later when I realised...


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    #163
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    FWIW
    Fox and Geese and the Red Cow were names of pubs on the Naas Road in the 1800s. One of them is familiar to many still!
    "Borris" comes from Burgage (an administrative unit in the middle ages), so Borris on Ossory is the Burgage in the Diocese of Ossory.

    Ok-
    St. Leger's Bottoms on the Curragh
    Gotham, Boston and Jerusalem (all Kildare Townlands)
    Don't think I saw Nobber, Co. Meath listed (An Obair- the Work)
    Ringsend (far out, maaaan)
    Kilmacow, Kilkenny


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    #164
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Man of War, co. Dublin


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    #165
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Killkenny - South Park had to use that one..ha ha ha


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    #166
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Stoneybatter


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    #167
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,350 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    A road rather than a placename - but Misery Hill in Dublin.


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    #168
    ollaetta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    There's a place in Tyrone called Stranagalwilly with two townlands, Balix Upper and Balix Lower. No way could you give that address out, you'd have to move house!


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    #169
    darlenmol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭darlenmol


    Tagoat, Co. Wexford


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    #170
    Mozzeltoff
    Registered Users Posts: 8,614 ✭✭✭Mozzeltoff


    Seen a sign post in Tralee for a place called Rathass. Got a bit of a giggle from it :pac:


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    #171
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    I'm cheating here as its not in Ireland,but in England there is a town called cockermouth


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    #172
    skittles8710
    Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    Mozzeltoff wrote: »
    Seen a sign post in Tralee for a place called Rathass. Got a bit of a giggle from it :pac:

    Actually from that area and never even saw the comical value..til now. mozzeltoff Mozzeltof!!


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    #173
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    In Caherconlish , Co.Limerick there is a place called hundredacres East.


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    #174
    Das Reich
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Das Reich


    For me as I am Brazilian it would be Toomevara in County Tipperary, the name sounds exactly like "take cock" in Portuguese.


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    #175
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Irish Stones wrote: »
    Man of War, co. Dublin

    'Death to False Metal.'

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



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    #176
    The Slobs
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭The Slobs


    Horeswood Co. Wexford !


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    #177
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    'Death to False Metal.'

    Great spot all the same, many a happy session i had out the man o war


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    #178
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Poulacapple, Co Tipperary

    Oughterard, Co Galway

    Kilcock, Co Kildare (church of cock? ;) )


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    #179
    Chorcai
    Registered Users Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    WTF leave Termonfeckin alone


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    #180
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Tub of curry ;)


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    #181
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,820 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    I'm cheating here as its not in Ireland,but in England there is a town called cockermouth

    The poor woman doing the sign language nearly collapsed when she had to read that out on the news.


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