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Parish Etymology or likely etymology Townlands Sources Armagh: Irish: Ard Mhacha, meaning 'Macha's height' 24 [2] Ballymore: Irish: an Baile Mór, meaning 'the large settlement' 47 [3] Ballymyre: Irish: Baile an Mhaoir, meaning 'Myre's settlement' 8 [4] Clonfeacle: 18 [5] Creggan: Irish: an Creagán, meaning 'the rocky place' 58 [6] Derrynoose ...
clabber, clauber (from clábar) wet clay or mud; curdled milk. clock O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries.
Armagh is within the civil parish of Armagh. Like the rest of Ireland, this parish is divided into townlands , whose names mostly come from the Irish language. When these townlands were built upon, they lent their names to various streets, roads and housing estates.
County Armagh (Irish: Contae Ard Mhacha [ˌaːɾˠd̪ˠ ˈwaxə]) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.It is located in the province of Ulster and adjoins the southern shore of Lough Neagh.
First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...
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Airgíalla at its peak roughly matched the modern dioceses of Armagh and Clogher, spanning parts of counties Armagh, Monaghan, Louth, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. [2] Its main towns were Armagh and Clogher. The name's usage survives as a cultural area of folk tradition in South East Ulster and adjoining areas of County Louth.
However, some names come directly from the English language, and a handful come from Old Norse and Scots. The study of placenames in Ireland unveils features of the country's history and geography and the development of the Irish language. The name of Ireland itself comes from the Irish name Éire, added to the Germanic word land.