Towns in Ireland named after British Imperialists

[Farrandeelin]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

[Lar Naparka]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

It was Maurice De Prendergast and not the Fitzmaurices who gave the town its name.
"Clár" is the old Irish term for a bridge and ASAIK, it refers to a particular type of structure.
It was built by laying one or more tree trunks across the river in question and roping them together if necessary.
I don't recall the location of the clar that was named after Maurice. I remember me oul' fella telling me where it was as we passed through the town one time but, as usual, I wasn't listening.

[Farrandeelin]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

It was Maurice De Prendergast and not the Fitzmaurices who gave the town its name.
"Clár" is the old Irish term for a bridge and ASAIK, it refers to a particular type of structure.
It was built by laying one or more tree trunks across the river in question and roping them together if necessary.
I don't recall the location of the clar that was named after Maurice. I remember me oul' fella telling me where it was as we passed through the town one time but, as usual, I wasn't listening.

Perhaps, but I also read that Prendergast and Fitzmaurice have the same surname in Irish? Could this be true???

[theticklemister]

Boyle tis an oul garrison town in Roscommon........ Had my nicest pint of stout there,pure velvet I tell ya! Shit town however!

[Never beat the deeler]

Charlestown used to be called Newtown-Dillon, but was renamed after Charles Strickland, an agent of Lord Dillon.

The area was known as Dillontown before the town was established.

http://www.irelandgenweb.com/irlmay/townlands/Charlestown.htm

[Myles Na G.]

What about towns / railway stations / sports stadia in Ireland named after Irish fools and fanatics?

[ONeill]

What about towns / railway stations / sports stadia in Ireland named after Irish fools and fanatics?

Dungannon. Named after Grand Master Arthur Dung LOL 433.

[Celt_Man]

As was said before Cootehill would fall into this category...

Named after Thomas Coote - a Colonel in the Cromwellian Army and when he married Francis Hill of Hillsborough, they named the name Cootehill

[HiMucker]

What about towns / railway stations / sports stadia in Ireland named after Irish fools and fanatics?

Windsor Park?

[Shamrock Shore]

Edgeworthstown was named after the local landlords, The Edgeworths.

They were benevolent enough and there are very few records of evictions. Richard Lovell Edgeworth was all in favour of Catholic Emancipation and later on his successors were very good to the local people during Famine times. I think in the 20s there was a vote to officially change the name of the town back to Mostrim (Meathus Troim - irish for fertile ridge) but it was defeated.

So while the parish, the local senior team and the train station are known as Mostrim, the town is Edgeworthstown. We're a contrary lot for sure.

[muppet]

Moorehall in Mayo named after the Catholic Moore family: http://www.moorehall.net/

As landlords went they were about the best. During the famine it was famously recorded that not a single tenant was evicted from their lands and that upon losing a husband the Moore's gave the new widow a cow to help feed her family. George Henry Moore also famously won a huge bet on a horse race in England and gave each family on his land a cow from the winnings. This was in Mayo in 1846 during the height of the famine.

Maurice Moore fought in the Boer war but unusually for a British soldier fought for civil rights in South Africa and for the relief of Irish prisoners held in English jails.

The family house was burned down by local ideologues.

[Lar Naparka]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

It was Maurice De Prendergast and not the Fitzmaurices who gave the town its name.
"Clár" is the old Irish term for a bridge and ASAIK, it refers to a particular type of structure.
It was built by laying one or more tree trunks across the river in question and roping them together if necessary.
I don't recall the location of the clar that was named after Maurice. I remember me oul' fella telling me where it was as we passed through the town one time but, as usual, I wasn't listening.

Perhaps, but I also read that Prendergast and Fitzmaurice have the same surname in Irish? Could this be true???

Well, not quite the same but reasonably close. After all, we're talking Mayo where anything is what you want it to be.
Stuff logic and convention; neither bulled a cow yet!
The name 'Fitzmaurice' is a patronymic. It means the son (descendent) of Maurice-whoever he might be. So the Fitzes around Clare could be descendents of Maurice De Prendergast for all I know. So the surnames are not the same but the Fitzemaurices are a sept of the De Prendergast gang.

(Clear as mud, isn't it? )

[Orior]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

It was Maurice De Prendergast and not the Fitzmaurices who gave the town its name.
"Clár" is the old Irish term for a bridge and ASAIK, it refers to a particular type of structure.
It was built by laying one or more tree trunks across the river in question and roping them together if necessary.
I don't recall the location of the clar that was named after Maurice. I remember me oul' fella telling me where it was as we passed through the town one time but, as usual, I wasn't listening.

Perhaps, but I also read that Prendergast and Fitzmaurice have the same surname in Irish? Could this be true???

Well, not quite the same but reasonably close. After all, we're talking Mayo where anything is what you want it to be.
Stuff logic and convention; neither bulled a cow yet!
The name 'Fitzmaurice' is a patronymic. It means the son (descendent) of Maurice-whoever he might be. So the Fitzes around Clare could be descendents of Maurice De Prendergast for all I know. So the surnames are not the same but the Fitzemaurices are a sept of the De Prendergast gang.

(Clear as mud, isn't it? )

Well can you find out please?

[FL/MAYO]

Barorrny of Tyrawley, Co. Mayo. Tyrawley Terrace in Ballina.
Binghamstown, near Belmullet.

The Quay in Ballina used to be Crockets Town.

Anybody mention Boyle. Co. Roscommon?

While the British created the baronies and named their landlords after them etc. Tyrawley is actually an Anglicised version of Tír Amhlaoidh. Same with the Barony of Erris, Iorras Domhnan as Gaeilge, and the Barony of Burrishoole, Buireas Umheall. It's also interesting to note that the Barony of Clanmorris, where Claremorris takes it's modern name in Irish from is also from and there would be a few Fitzmaurices in that area still today. Don't know how the spelling variation came about however.

It was Maurice De Prendergast and not the Fitzmaurices who gave the town its name.
"Clár" is the old Irish term for a bridge and ASAIK, it refers to a particular type of structure.
It was built by laying one or more tree trunks across the river in question and roping them together if necessary.
I don't recall the location of the clar that was named after Maurice. I remember me oul' fella telling me where it was as we passed through the town one time but, as usual, I wasn't listening.

Lar you are correct, the Clar was on the Ballinrobe Road about 200 yards after Sams Pub. There are two lakes in Claremorris connected by a small river, the bridge was over this river. Prendergast is still a very common name around the Claremorris area. There are ruins of an old Norman castle on the Claremorris to Balla road about 500 yards before the Beaten Path (on a hill on the right hand side as you go to Balla) this I believe was an old Norman Castle belonging to the Prendergasts.

[ziggy90]

Charlestown used to be called Newtown-Dillon, but was renamed after Charles Strickland, an agent of Lord Dillon.

The area was known as Dillontown before the town was established.

http://www.irelandgenweb.com/irlmay/townlands/Charlestown.htm

That Lord Dillon must have owned some size of an estate, was not his home in Ireland what was once Loughglynn Convent. Local folklore has it that the morter for the estate walls was mixed with the blood of the famine dead