Funny placenames - apart from Muff?

Ger Roe

Nobber, in county Meath has already had an honourable mention, but just to keep the innuendo going, there is a small estate in Nobber called Muff Crescent.

Ipso

Ger Roe wrote: »

Nobber, in county Meath has already had an honourable mention, but just to keep the innuendo going, there is a small estate in Nobber called Muff Crescent.

No Muff triangle?

DJIMI TRARORE

There's a place in Cavan town called cock hill

In Germany too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****_(mountain)

Beanntraigheach

Feakle, Co. Clare
Wagga-Wagga, Australia
Condom, France
Bitche, France
Gobbler's Knob, USA (of Groundhog Day fame)
Hell, Norway

and

http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane :eek:

byhookorbycrook

Rubberlegs wrote: »

There is a Gotham in Carlow ??!! Mad !

Yep, not far from the town, actually,out past the golf club or else turn left at the Green Acres cross (if heading away from the town)

Jimbob1977

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Changed its name to a game show to win a prize

Lia_lia

Friend of my Mothers live on the street called Dumb Woman's lane in England!

There was a place in Northampton called Buttocks hill, but the residents got fed up with being the arse end of nowhere so they renamed it Boothville.

SEPT 23 1989

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

harry Bailey esq

Charlie19 wrote: »

Slutsend out in Coolock.

There is indeed a sluts end in Dublin, but it's location roughly corresponds to present day glasnevin industrial estate. Staying on the theme of sluts, I like the sound of Slut's hole Lane, Norwich UK.

Thepillowman

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

Was this a politically correct term for the aforementioned ******.
Also in Clare
Poulagour the goats hole
Poulatrumpa the trumpets hole

cavu

Bangkok

DEFTLEFTHAND

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

****** roundabout?

We have a turning circle of the same name where I live.


You have to take a right on the Fag roundabout to get on the M7 to Dublin.

cavu

Disappointment Islands in French Polynesia.


the less-than-ideal honeymoon destination :pac:

MugsGame

Pherekydes wrote: »

Was on a computer course in St John's back in the day, and the instructor, whose name was Buffy (no joke), lived in a town called Dildo.

This and other humorous Newfoundland place names are actually the subject of a song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ssrm-aLGNw

Dakota Dan

Devil's hole in Florida

DEFTLEFTHAND

I am just glad after being in Russia for a month for the world cup - to be back where I can understand the place names at all

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

There is a village in Austria called ****ing.

Its welcome sign has become a popular tourist destination.

What I like is they made a Hefe Bier of the "light" variety. Or in german.... hell.



No prizes for guessing what they called it - https://tinyurl.com/yd45t8wo

Cleopatra_

There's a place where I live in Reading called St. Mary's Butts, it's also the end destination when I get the bus into town and I have to giggle every time I see it.

flazio

Two Mile Ditch, Galway.

Lorelli!

Hazard - Nebraska

"My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven..."

Under His Eye

Lorelli! wrote: »

Hazard - Nebraska

"My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven..."

The local sheriff wouldn't happen to be Roscoe P Coltrane?

Water John

Muck Island, Scotland.

HeidiHeidi

Misery Hill, Dublin

fish fingers

Dyke Rd. Galway

Under His Eye

Mount Misery Waterford.

HeidiHeidi

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

Which is just up the road from the Pole Star Roundabout

ETA - whoops, seems I got my funnily-named roundabouts mixed up

What I thought was the Bundle of Sticks Roundabout (because it has a huge bundle of sticks on it) is actually the Pole Star Roundabout.

Wrong county entirely.

As you were.

Hector Bellend

Fanny Barks in Co Durham

Cleopatra_

fish fingers wrote: »

Dyke Rd. Galway

Apt username

Dakota Dan

There's a pub in England called the Cockwell inn, miss Ivy likes it.

Ultimate Seduction

Meanus - Limerick

Uranus - Universe

lenoude

Cockburn St. in Edinburgh

New Home

xzanti wrote: »

Moll's Gap - Kerry
Nobber - Meath
Tubbercurry - Sligo
Legga - Longford

And not far from Tubbercurry there's a village (a place, anyway) called Tubbertelly. I've always wondered if that's where the Teletubbies live.

Ken.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Bundle of Sticks Roundabout

Do you know why it's called that?

New Home

Is that where wet blankets meet (being sticks in the mud and all that)?

Graces7

Rossanrubble here in Mayo

Ken.

New Home wrote: »

Is that where wet blankets meet (being sticks in the mud and all that)?

Nope, It use to have another name, a name that's a word for a bundle of sticks but is highly inappropriate in this day and age.

New Home

Right.

Graces7

And we could all definitely go to Hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqfh5Wl6I0

where HELL freezes over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEgm1N3V4XE

( actually a very pretty village, or was in 1968)

donegal_man

There's a town in Scotland named Dull which is twinned with Boring, Oregon and Bland, NSW.

donegal_man

The Journal has created a new town in Co. Meath for it's "can you tell where this Irish place is?" quiz.

Dakota Dan

Brown willy Cornwall
Scratchy bottom Dorset
Bell end Worcestershire

Pauliedragon

Tasmania in Oz has a few.
Lovely Bottom.
Pisspot Creek.
Prickly Bottom.
They are a weird bunch over there

donegal_man

donegal_man wrote: »

The Journal has created a new town in Co. Meath for it's "can you tell where this Irish place is?" quiz.

I can see my friend's house he lives quite close to me.

7 Seconds...

Not sure if it was mention already

Intercourse, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

bobbysands81

Bastardstown in Wexico.

Ironically Horetown is beside it.

appledrop

There is a Cock Bridge in Kildare.

appledrop

Also Kill in Co. Kildare

DrPhilG

There's a diving spot near a beach (whose name escapes me) in Donegal known as Harry's Hole.

This gave rise to a time when a friend of mine was asked if he had been to Harry's Hole and he replied, "nah, me and Harry were never that close".

On a separate note, Irish Street in Derry is in a strongly Protestant area. While Protestant Street in Limavady is in a mainly Catholic area*.


*so I'm told. Not personally familiar with Protestant Street but I do pass Irish Street every day and it's decked out in red, white and blue.

KK4SAM

We have a place name in Kilkenny called Powelgower, when translated means Goats Hole and now we are getting a Mosque apparently ?