Irish places with ironic names??

EmmetSpiceland

Mimon wrote: »

Maybe had a mountain view when it was originally built? Dublin originally wasn't very big.

Could be. It’s not a very long road and is cut off to the south by houses of a similar type so if there was a view I don’t think it lasted very long.

Tabnabs

Foretunestown

(located next to Jobstown...)

randd1

Mimon wrote: »

Pilltown - sounds like it should be a mecca for ravers, never been there but presume it's not.

Oh it feckin is.

Piltown is the spelling by the way.

Zebra3

Amirani wrote: »

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).

Yep, the park and Eastpoint are reclaimed land.

Take that, Holland!!

fryup

Spanish Point, co clare

not a spaniard to be seen or point at

odyssey06

Amirani wrote: »

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).

And similarly Marino (An Mairíne) was once closer to the sea.

I'll add Bull Island no bulls and no longer an island (since causeway built).

McGinniesta

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

elperello

McGinniesta wrote: »

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

Back in the mists of time Boris Yeltsin President of Russia made a stopover at Shannon Airport.

Our Taoiseach Albert Reynolds lined up with a bunch of dignitaries beside his plane but Boris never got off the plane so they all went home.

It later transpired that Mr Yeltsin had a feed of vodka during the flight and fell asleep. When they landed none of his staff would wake him.

The incident was described later as Boris is Ossified.

cdeb

McGinniesta wrote: »

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

Buirìs is a town owned by a lord. Osraí was an old Irish kingdom. So it's a town in a kingdom. Very apt I think.

Not understanding it doesn't make it ironic

RandomViewer

There's a townland near Churchill in Donegal called Mountpleasure

fryup

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Hospital, Limerick. Doesn't have one.

i often wondered how that place got that name...any locals fill us in?

elperello

fryup wrote: »

i often wondered how that place got that name...any locals fill us in?

It goes back to the time of the Knights Hospitaller who built a church there about 800 years ago. Just a pile of stones now.

Better Limerick one is Effin.

Sac O Spuds

Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

Killbrittain

I was told once that the man that shot Michael Collins in Bealnablath came from that area.

Gregor Samsa

Lads, explaining the factual etymologies of the place names is spoiling the irony.

fryup

Sac O Spuds wrote: »

Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

Killbrittain

and was it called that back in colonial times?? surprised the brits allowed it

elperello

Sac O Spuds wrote: »

Down in West Cork there's a village that had a lot of republican leanings in the civil war. Ambush sites safehouses plenty of volunteers.

Killbrittain

I was told once that the man that shot Michael Collins in Bealnablath came from that area.

Correct, Sonny O'Neil was from Timoleague.

elperello

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Lads, explaining the factual etymologies of the place names is spoiling the irony.

Ironically.

passremarkable

Crookedwood in Westmeath.
They Have a hurling team who are not the best team in county let’s put it that way.
So think it’s ironic that there called crookedwood!!

retalivity

Passifyoucan near lucan.
It actually has many verges, driveways and wide corners to allow safe passing of traffic

deni20000

Nellies hole on lough derg

flazio

Horse and Jockey in Tipperary. Apart from a statue I've never seen so much as a sulky.
Couple of real name places in Galway. Two Mile Ditch and Dyke Road.

josip

More sarcasm than irony, there's a townland in Wexford named Gurtins.
The townland beside it is Gurtins Great.

elperello

deni20000 wrote: »

Nellies hole on lough derg

It's Nellies Angle.

(I'm not sure which is worse )

Thelonious Monk

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Fairview, Dublin. No view at all.

I think the sea may have come right up to Fairview and that's maybe why it was called that, as you could see the whole of Dublin bay. I think maybe the Bull Wall allowed the land to be reclaimed.

odyssey06

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think the sea may have come right up to Fairview and that's maybe why it was called that, as you could see the whole of Dublin bay. I think maybe the Bull Wall allowed the land to be reclaimed.

And that explains Seaview Avenue & Bayview Avenue in North Strand and East Wall area... no view of the Bay anymore as the strand has been stolen by Clontarf.

NeinNeinNein

Nuclear Drive, Portarlington.

Thelonious Monk

odyssey06 wrote: »

And that explains Seaview Avenue & Bayview Avenue in North Strand and East Wall area... no view of the Bay anymore as the strand has been stolen by Clontarf.

Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.

Fr Tod Umptious

flazio wrote: »

Horse and Jockey in Tipperary. Apart from a statue I've never seen so much as a sulky.
Couple of real name places in Galway. Two Mile Ditch and Dyke Road.

Is the Black Box still on Dyke Rd ?

Thelonious Monk

Tranquility Grove, Coolock.

cdeb

Good shout - nowhere near the moon.

(All those streets were named after the Apollo missions - Apollo Way, Eagle Park, Armstrong Walk and Aldrin Walk as well)

odyssey06

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.

Yep. There had been an island in that vicinity, known as Clontarf Island.
But the building of the 'bull' walls led to stripping of sediment until the Island was washed away in a great storm in 1844 with a tragic loss of life.
https://www.loveclontarf.ie/about/history-of-clontarf/clontarf-island/

Think East Point was reclaimed using rubbish from construction sites, starting in the 80s.

appledrop

California Hills Park Ballyfermot.

Also Claddagh Rd, Spiddle Rd, Oranmore Rd etc in Ballyfermot no where near anywhere in Galway!

appledrop

Bundle of Sticks roundabout in Naas.

Now I have to admit I think its a brilliant name for a roundabout, but there is no bundle of sticks in sight!

Thelonious Monk

odyssey06 wrote: »

Yep. There had been an island in that vicinity, known as Clontarf Island.
But the building of the 'bull' walls led to stripping of sediment until the Island was washed away in a great storm in 1844 with a tragic loss of life.
https://www.loveclontarf.ie/about/history-of-clontarf/clontarf-island/

Think East Point was reclaimed using rubbish from construction sites, starting in the 80s.

Yes it was William Bligh of mutiny on the Bounty fame who surveyed the bay prior to the wall being built.
Never knew about the island!

Zebra3

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yes a lot of the land around there is reclaimed, I think East Point may be reclaimed land too.

It is. The football pitches on Alfie Byrne Road used be always called off at the first drop of rain because it's reclaimed land but I think the pitches down there are artificial now.

EDIT-Off topic but a great story about the area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Crescent

An Ri rua

afro man wrote: »

Some crackers in Wexford

Bastardstown,
Fannystown

Both may be highly accurate rather than ironic though. Unless you can verify the lack of both in same.

An Ri rua

Sesame St was the old name for Kildare St.

Which is rather ironic as it's now where the Irish franchise of the Muppet Show is filmed...

An Ri rua

cdeb wrote: »

Leopardstown is an obvious one actually. No leopards at all. The Irish name gives it away - Baile na Lobhar - Town of the lepers. It was the site of a lepers' hospital in the middle ages.

Plenty of dead men walking after most races. Bookie vampires gorging on their lifeblood.

whisky_galore

Mallow, neither soft nor sweet.

An Ri rua

McGinniesta wrote: »

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

He's descended from werewolves. If you have to ask, don't ask in a local pub. People disappear.







http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/talk/banshees/werewolf.shtm

Gregor Samsa

odyssey06 wrote: »

Yep. There had been an island in that vicinity, known as Clontarf Island.

The Irish for Clontarf is “Cluain Tarbh” - the meadow of the bull. Which I assume is where the “bull” in the Bull Wall and Bull Island comes from.

And yes, I’ve given up on the irony too.

odyssey06

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

The Irish for Clontarf is “Cluain Tarbh” - the meadow of the bull. Which I assume is where the “bull” in the Bull Wall and Bull Island comes from.
And yes, I’ve given up on the irony too.

Yep... there are no bulls but maybe the wind and waves roaring in from the sea sound like a bull snorting is what I read.