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Iverus Placenames Derivation
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Placename
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Irish origin
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Direct Translation
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Meaning
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Beagh
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Beitheach
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place of birch trees
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Logainm.ie has 40+ entries for Beitheach or An Bheitheach.
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Ballinvoher
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Baile an Bhóthair
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Townland of the Road
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More than 20 Ballinvohers are listed on Logainm.ie
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Ballyaglish
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Baile na hEaglaise
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Townland of the Church
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Beagh Church borders on the NW of Ballyaglish townland
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Ballycanauna
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Baile an Chanánaigh
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Townland of the Canon
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The townland or holding of the Canon - Canon Island is nearby.
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Ballydoo Bridge
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Dr. Bhéal Átha Duibh
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Black Ford Bridge
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North of Moig Bridge (see below)
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Ballynacourty
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Baile na Cúirte
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Townland of the Court
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'Court' implies a grand house; law-court seems improbable
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Ballynort
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Baile Ó nDúrtaigh
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Townland of Uí Dhúrtaigh
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Uí Dhúrtaigh ΜΆ a sept name
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Ballyengland
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Baile an Ingleontaigh
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England's townland
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More likely the surname England, rather than 'englander'
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Ballyhomin
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Baile Thoimín
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Tomeen's townland
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Ballyhomin entry, p.115 of Askeaton field book (online), is missing
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Ballysteen
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Baile Uí Istiadhain
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O'Steen's townland
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"Steen is still a family name" (Joyce, Irish Names of Places Vol.III)
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Ballyvaddock
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Baile Mhadóg
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Madóg's townland
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Madóg, a personal name, from the Welsh Madoc
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Ballyvogue
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Baile Mhóig
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Mogue's townland
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Maidoc,Madoc, aka St Aidan; Lognm.ie Baile Dhabhóg = (St?)David
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Bushyisland
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An tOileán Mór
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The Big Island
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Most of the island was quarried away in constructing the dyke.
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Cragreagh
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An Chraig Riabhac
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The Striped Rock
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Logainm.ie (a Kilcornan townland)
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Crokerspark
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Baile Shitric
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Sitric's townland
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Sitric may have been a Viking; cf Gerard Curtin, NMAJ vol.51, pp.152-4
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Deegerty
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Díg-Gortaigh
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ditch-fields
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O'Donovan,1840, Field Name Books (a Kilcornan townland)
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Drominaclara
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Droimainn an Chláraigh
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flat ridge?
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clárach (as noun) = a flat, a level; or Clárach = a native of Charleville
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Drominoona
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Dromainn Úna
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The ridge of Úna
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Winifred's Ridge (O'Donovan, 1840); Úna may not be a personal name.
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Dromlohan
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Drom Locháin
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ridge of the little lake
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a fen, once a pond, beside the old schoolhouse, but lochán also=chaff
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Drommoher
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Drom Aichir Beag
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short ridge?
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Aichear, a personal name. Logainm cites a Drom Aichair Mór
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Glenagauran Point
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Rinn Ghleann na gCarn
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Headland of the Cairns
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Intriguing: where were the cairns? whose graves did they mark?
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Goleen Bridge
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Gaibhlín
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narrow inlet or fork
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fork of two small streams at Ballynash/Shannonview, or the inlet there
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Gortnagranagher
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gort-grean-char
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gravelly field
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Irish Names of Places Vol.II, Joyce: grean=gravel; char=accumulation
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Gortnagranagher
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Gort na gCrannchur
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field of casting of lots
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Logainm.ie: crannchur (casting of lots) seems improbable
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Graigues
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An Ghráig
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The hamlet
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gráig = hamlet or cattle-steading (Logainm.ie for Graigues, Kenry)
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Greenish Island
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Graigh-inis
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Horse-herd Island
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graigh/graidh = herd of (wild) horses, also a stud (Dineen)
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Ilaunavoley Point
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Oileán na Buaile
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Island of the Buaile
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buaile: a summer pasture, often upland; or simply a fold enclosure
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Islandtigue
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Oileán Taidhg
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Taidhg's island
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a tiny speck of land off Ballynash
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Issane
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Easán
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little waterfall
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a small cascade, as on a stream; but where exactly in Issane?
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Kenry Bridge
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at Moig North, on the border of Kenry with Lower Connello
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Moig
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Maigh an Iarla
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the earl's field/plain
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(as in Moigs North, South, East, and West)
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Moig Bridge
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off Askeaton bypass; bridges the 'Clareen' which fed the mill race.
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Mornane
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Moirneán
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rocky or stony place
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derived from boireann, from which Burren
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Tobermurry
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Tobar Muire
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The well of Our Lady
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(but the place was known as An Chathair, the stone fort, in the 1600s)
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