Place names in Ireland

[ziggysego]

I was wondering how many places have the same name in Ireland and where they all are? Also, what is the most popular place name in Ireland?

For instance I live in Greencastle, but there is four Greencastles in Ireland. Interestingly enough, all in Ulster.

Greencastle, Co. Donegal
Greencastle, Co. Antrim
Greencastle, Co. Down
Greencastle, Co. Tyrone

[dodo]

In Mayo it would be something like Ballyglass  (probably due to a 'green' 'town' being a big swing in a county of generally poor land) or Shraheens (little river islets)

[gerry]

Best i can do Ziggy is Dooish my townland in Tyrone and Dooish a townland in Donegal.

[deiseach]

Ballybeg seems quite popular, if you are to believe Wikipedia, with five instances - althoiugh "a small road between Portglenone . . .  and Ahoghill" seems to be a stretch

[stephenite]

Ballina, Co.Mayo
Ballina, Co.Tipperary
Ballina, New South Wales, Australia

[Hollow Man]

Ballinagh in Cavan (Ulster IFC champions).

Pronounced Ballin-ya

One of the most popular would be Knockmore I'd say or Glasdrummond seems popular in Cavan for some reason

Kill is very popular

[cville]

I heard ...... Tandragee means 'Arse against the wind' ... while Ballyhackamore in east Belfast means 'Town of the big dung' ... while Larne is Irish for 'Pack of Wa**ers' any comments?

[FermPundit]

I know this thread is directly related to place names in Ireland but surely Newtown has to be the best popular place name in the world?

I did a wikipedia and here is the list of all places called Newtown

Australia
Newtown, New South Wales
Newtown, Victoria
Newtown, Queensland

Ireland
Newtown, County Cork
Newtown, County Laois
Newtown, County Tipperary

United Kingdom
Newtown, Birmingham
Newtown, Chester
Newtown, Derbyshire
Newtown, Exeter
Newtown, Hampshire
Newtown, Isle of Wight
Newtown, Kent
Newtown, Powys
Newtown, Worcestershire
Newtown Linford

United States
Newtown, Connecticut
Newtown, Aiea, Hawaii
Newtown, Illinois
Newtown, Indiana
Newtown, Missouri
Newtown, an old name for the neighborhood of Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Newtown, Ohio
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Newtown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Other countries
Newtown, Newfoundland and Labrador
Newtown, Isle of Man
Newtown, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington
Newtown, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa

I wonder if anyone could beat that long list of Newtowns?? I think there are 33 here

[FermPundit]

Opps, I didn't research this one very hard. I think the most popular place name in Ireland is Newcastle.

Republic of Ireland

Newcastle West, County Limerick
Newcastle, County Wicklow
Newcastle, Dublin
Newcastle, County Galway
Newcastle, County Tipperary
Newcastle, Oldcastle, County Meath

Northern Ireland
Newcastle, County Down

I think there are about 40 Newcastles worldwide

[Aerlik]

I think there are about 40 Newcastles worldwide

Name them:

I'll give you one for starters:  Shinshiro City, Aichi-ken, Japan where I used to work.  Literally means "New castle"

[Zapatista]

Dromore Co. Down
Dromore Co. Tyrone
Dromore Co. Donegal

[Hardy]

Newtown and Newcastle are strong candidates OK. The wiki list of Newtowns in Ireland above is too small by an order of magnitude at least, when you go down to townland names. There are at least four in Meath alone, in one of which I was born.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844 lists 18 Newtowns and 15 Newcastles and it only goes down to parish or "hamlet" level - doesn't include townlands.

[his holiness nb]

Theres a Durrow in Laois and Offaly.
2 Balrotherys in Dublin, one near Tallaght, one near Balbriggan.
Blackrock is in Dublin and Louth, I'd guess maybe elsewhere too?

2 Donores too, I think.

Summerhill in Dublin and Meath.

[nrico2006]

Theres a Ballinderry in Tyrone and one in Antrim.  Newbridge is another to rival Newcastle and Newtown.

[The Real Laoislad]

Durrow Co.Laois
Durrow Co.Offaly
Durrow Co.Waterford

Stradbally Co.Laois
Stradbally Co.Waterford