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Why do towns start with bally in northern ireland. i.e ballykinler, ballymoney etc?


    



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dave a
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Bally is an extremely common prefix to town names in Ireland, and is derived from the Gaelic phrase 'Baile na', meaning 'place of'. It is not quite right to translate it 'town of', as there were few, if any, towns in Ireland at the time these names were formed. For example, Ballyjamesduff [Place of James Duff] (county Cavan), Ballymoney (county Londonderry). The Irish name for the site of present-day Dublin was 'Baile Átha Cliath', which, if anglicised, would be spelt something like 'Ballycleeagh'. Note that 'Dublin' is actually a Viking word


An American in Ireland
There are some western nows with the word bally in front like Ballybunion Bally is Baile in Irish. Its means town of or settlement of Ballybunion mean town or settlement of he Bunyun family.


x~orlaith~babii~x
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Up Ballybofey!! in Donegal!! (",)
not everywhere starts with ..."bally".... it means a homeplace or town !! x(",)x


uknative
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Bally comes from the Irish word Báile meaning homeplace or town.


lisa_mcelreavey
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not all towns in northern Ireland stat with bally


old know all
In the south too. It's the English attempt at Baile meaning castle or stronghold.


Garnet
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it comes from 'baile' (pronounced ball-ya) meaning town


selchiequeen
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I believe its Irish for a market. So 'Ballykissangel' means that the town of Kissangel had a market at one time.


ulster scooby
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Because the are

why is portsmouth not called portstoe

Sheffield not call shefwood


MaryC O
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Town of .Thats what it means.............................


wwJad
if you are asking about places in Northern Ireland
then ask the question in the right category
this category is for the Irish Free State
NI is in the UK



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