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Written by John McCullagh   
Friday, 22 August 2008

annagh or anna:  marsh 

ard : height or high


 



bally:  a settlement of some sort 

beg:  little 

boy:  yellow

bro or broagh:  edge of 

brae:  a hill with a road over it 

burren:  rocky area 

cahard:  high bog 

cargy:  rocks 

carrick : a rock 

carrow:  a quarterland , meaning part of a townland

cashel:  castle 

cill : church 

clief or cleithe: wattle or timber 

coinin or coney:  rabbit 

cloch : stone 

clonta : a meadow 

coney or coinin:  rabbit 

corragh:  rugged or pointed 

cott:  wooden boat 

craig:  rocky or crag 

creevy : many branches; a wooden district 

cu - in people's names  a champion or graceful, swift, courageous 

curragh:  marsh 

darragh:  bulls 

derry : oak grove or woods 

donagh:  church 

doo:  black 

drin or dron:  humps or ridges 

drum:  a ridge or hill 

dun:  fort of chieftains 

eden or edna:  high brow (of a hill) 

fofann:  a place abounding with thistles 

gar:  short 

glas : green 

inish:  island 

kil / killy:  a church or sometimes a wood 

knock : a hill 

leggy:  a hollow

let : grave 

lis : fort

lough : lake 

maghera:  a plain 

meel : ants 

money : shrubs 

more : big 

na : of naive saint

ness:  weasel 

neve : saint 

nua:  new 

ra or rae:  a level place 

rath:  hill fort 

rin : ridge 

ros : a promontory or grove 

shannagh:  foxes 

slieve:  mountain 

talagh : a hillock 

tanagh : mound or rampart 

tieve : hillside 

tonnagh/ tonagh:  a field, a woodland 

tooder : tanner 

tullach:  hill

tully:  a hill or mound

turk : boar





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