why in n.ireland is so many town names starting with BALLY i.e. ballywalter, ballymena.what doe's bally mean?
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The information above is correct, although there is one slight and less common elaboration - "Bally" can also come from the Irish words "Béal Átha" - a river ford: Ballybay Co. Monaghan and Ballyshannon have this meaning for instance.
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Yes, it is.  The roots of the name in Ireland are somewhat unclear, but it seems to have both Irish Gaelic and Norman roots.\n\nCheck out the website I've attached.  It should help.
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been trying find this one out myself i have no idea, I reckon somebody had a sense of humor whilst naming those places. but they are cool names.
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it means  (jewel)  in arabic .\nnice name.\na native english speaker would stress the second syllable when reading this  , like        joHAra    .thats not how it should sound .\nit should be read with stress on the first syllable        JOhara\n\nalso it could be an irish name\n     joe  o'hara...........johara
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The Gaelic word "Samhain" \n'sow-in' (in Ireland), or 'sow-een' (in Wales), or 'sav-en' (in Scotland), but NOT 'sam-hane' (in the U.S., where they don't speak Gaelic) means literally "summer's end."
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In chinese can mean dwelling or speaking (something to do with religion), in Irish it means abyss. But the variation of that (Samira) in Arabic means entertaining. But seriously, why are you using a name if you don't know what it means.
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Because county clare sounds better than clare county(lol)
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Searched the Irish Telephone Directory by each county and found the following number of listings for the name Crossan:\nCavan - 24..............Clare -1\nDonegal - 72...........Dublin - 24\nKildare -27..............Leitrim - 12\nLongford - 3............Louth - 7\nMayo - 4..................Meath - 29\nMonaghan - 12........Roscommon - 8\nSligo - 9...................West Meath - 3\nWexford - 1.............Wicklow - 27\nSo it looks as if the name is concentrated in county Donegal which is our northernmost county and very beautiful.  I have provided a link for this county as well as the telephone directory.
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This isn't pronounced anything like it sounds:\nFailte (basically "welcome")\nCead Mile Failte (basically "a hundred thousand welcomes", so it's the extra polite version)\nNote there's an acute accent (points this way: /) on the "e" in "Cead" and "a" in "Failte."\n\nIt's pronounced something like "KAY-ad MEE-lah FALL-tcha," though the exact Irish diphthongs don't have any equivalents in English.\n\nThe link below has an mp3 of someone saying it.
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From Wikipedia:\n\nThe name appears to derive from the Saxon here meaning army and hlaw meaning hill that was the meeting point of the local Saxon tribe. The village was noted later in Magna Carta and developed as a typical rural area.\n\nHope that's "original" enough!\n\nYour best bet for more detail is the Museum of Harlow ( http://www.tmoh.com ) but there's little available online - you'll need to go there.
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Caelam - from Latin, meaning heavenly\n\nCaellum - from Celtic, meaning brave warrior\n\nColm - from Irish, meaning dove\n\nOther Irish names:\n\nKieran - little dark one\n\nKelly or Kelley - warrior or defender\n\nConall - high, mighty\n\nGorry - peace from God\n\nMalachy - my angel\n\nDonal - ruler of the world
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Calyborri\n\nCalyborri Ine Kneale was my ancestress from Mallenhowne, Isle of Man.\n\nAlwara, Alvarissa, Lucia, Alice, Helwise, Bridget, Ada, etc. are all other names from that time period in my family tree.\n\nIf you want Norse/Viking names, I have a BUNCH of those too!
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Ireland Forever \n\nForever Ireland \n\nireland forever or ireland eternally. \n\nIt means Ireland Forever. It hangs in almost every bar/pub in Ireland. There are Gaelic/English dictionaries that you can look it up in if you wish. \n\nÉireann go Brách = Ireland Forever, Pronunciation: /Erin guh brawk/, Downloads: 19,370 \n\nThe popular phrases "Erin go Bragh" or "Erin go Braugh" mean Ireland forever. It's the anglicised version of the Gaelic phrase which would be known to some Irish Americans (although its English spelling is quite meaningless). \n\nI've been told and seen on greeting cards since I was a kid that the phrase "Erin go braugh" means "Ireland forever." Something as beautiful as Ireland SHOULD last forever!! \n\nForever Ireland \n\nQuite literally, it means "Ireland Forever." To put it in our very incompetent English terms, "long live Ireland." \n\nIt is the anglicized spelling of the phrase "Ã‰ireann go BrÃ¡ch" (Ireland forever). "Ã‰ire go BrÃ¡ch" is also acceptable \n\n\nMy Grandmother who arrived here in the states in the early 1900's via Ellis Island from Ireland told me it meant "Ireland Forever". That being said she also said that for the people of her generation it really said "Green go the Irish" \n\nGo bragh and go deo both mean forever though. And did you know that Fear = man and FÃ©ar = grass? \n\n"Ã‰ireann go BrÃ¡ch" which means "Ireland forever" More loosely translated, it would mean 'Long Live Ireland'. \n\nI believe â€˜Erin go Braughâ€™ is actually Gaelic for 'Ireland Forever.' The term Erin means Ireland and go Braugh translates to forever. Hence 'IRELAND FOREVER'. \n\nerin go bragh means eire for ever,i have a tattoo of it on my chest beside my heart! \n\nit means ireland forever trust me im irish \n\n\nOther meanings \n\nIt means Ireland be free \n\nIt means (Ireland go Brave) a battle cry, this information from a member of a Celtic Band who performs a lot of Scottish and Irish music and this lady's husband is from Scotland.
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Something about cheese?\n\nNo, I'm kidding. I think you mean "Erin Go Braugh", which means "Ireland Forever".
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céadsearc               is sweetheart\na chuisle mo chroíis my dear darling\na ghrá mo chroí       love of my heart\n\ndon't say Pogue mahone! it's Gaelic for "kiss my arse"
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Great Britain is the Island on which the country of England is found, as well as Scotland and Wales.  These three countries, along with Ulster on the island of Ireland, are all part of the nation called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, also known as the U.K. or the British Kingdom for short. The term "British Isles" refers to the islands of Great Britian and Ireland and all of the smaller islands surrounding these two.  Ireland is a separate country from the U.K.\n\nOkay, I think I've about exhausted this subject.
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission