Irish Placenames
| "Ard" |
height or high |
| "Aglish" (Aglish) |
means a church |
|
"Baile"( Balla ) |
meaning town or townland. |
| "Ath"( Ah ) |
means a ford in a river or stream |
| "Carraig" ( Carrig ) |
meaning a rock |
| "Ballagh" ( Balach) |
means a road |
| "Bother" (Boher) |
means a road |
| "Cill " ( Kill ) |
Means a church |
| "Beag" (Beg ) |
small |
| "Clon" (Clon ) |
means a piece of fertile ground or a meadow |
| "Caher" ( Caher) |
is a circular stone fort |
| "Coill" (Kill ) |
a wood |
| "Cliath"(Clee) |
a hurdle |
| "Bel"(Bale) |
the mouth of something, i.e. an entrance |
| "Dun" (Doon ) |
a fortress |
| "Dair" ( Dar ) |
an oak tree |
| "Daire " (Derry) |
means an oak grove or wood |
| "Dearg" (Derg) |
means red in colour |
| "Droichead" ( Drohed ) |
a bridge |
| "Druim" (Drum ) |
is a large ridge or long hill |
| "Fada"( Fada) |
long |
| "Eas" ( Ass) |
is a waterfall |
| "Faill" (Foyle) |
a cliff |
| "Fert" (Fert) |
a grave or trench |
| "Glas" (Glas) |
green in colour |
| "Gleann" (Glen) |
a glen or valley |
| "Gort" ( Gort) |
a tilled field |
| "Inis" (Inis) |
an island |
| "Cnoc" (Knock) |
is a hill |
| "Loch" ( Loch) |
a lake |
| "Leitir" (Letter) |
a wet hill side |
| "Magh" (Mah ) |
a plain |
| "Muc"( Muck) |
a pig |
| "Mor" ( More) |
big or great |
| "Og" (Oge) |
little or young |
| "Rath" ( Raw ) |
a circular fort |
| "Rinn" (Rinn) |
point of land |
| "Sean" (Shan) |
old |
| "Sidh" ( Shee) |
fairy hill. |
| "Sibhean"( Shee -veen) |
small fairy hill |
| "Sliabh" (Sleeve) |
a mountain |
| "Sraid"(Sraud) |
a street |
| "Teach" (Tee-och) |
a house |
| "Tochar"(Togher) |
a causeway |
| "Tor" (Tor ) |
means a tower |
| "Torc" (Turk) |
a boar |
| "Tuaim" (Toom) |
burial mound |
| "Tulach" (Tulla) |
a little hill |
| "Uaran"(Ooran) |
a cold spring |