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The vast majority of English-language place names in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names. The spelling which has legal force is usually that used by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Many of Ireland's longest place names are found in the far west of the island, where the Irish language has survived the longest; including Gaeltacht ...
It was formerly regarded as the longest place name (in English) in Ireland (22 letters), but awareness of longer names has challenged Muckanaghederdauhaulia. [5] There was a hamlet within the townland which had the same name in Irish (Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile), but a shorter English name, Mucknasalia.
The Irish words then had the same meaning and same force and effect as the place-name. [clarification needed] This order lists a little fewer than 2,000 place-names, many of which were changed from the Irish form used since independence, e.g. Bray went from Brí Chualann to Bré and Naas changed from Nás na Rí to An Nás.
The longest place name in Israel [3] is כעביה-טבאש-חג'אג'רה (21 letters and 2 hyphens), a local council. it is named for the three Bedouin tribes who live there, Ka'abiyye, Tabbash and Hajajre. The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including ...
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [2] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
The Placenames Database of Ireland (Irish: Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann), also known as logainm.ie, is a database and archive of place names in Ireland.It was created by Fiontar, Dublin City University in collaboration with the Placenames Branch of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain
A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff: Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor may like it here - in the Buckeye State. Kock: A town in Poland. Kokhanok: A place in Alaska. A place with plenty of cocks and knocking! Kokkola: Coca-Cola might want to remind this Finnish town how to ...