Dia duit agus fáilte ar ais, in this Irish language video I'm going to go
through the Irish names of five housing estates in Wexford and I'll explain the
meaning of the Irish names and a little bit of the history behind them, because
so many place names in Ireland whether its towns or counties or (housing) estates do have
Irish place names and it can give you a little insight into the history and
background, so the first housing estate here is Ard Uisce and this
basically translates into high water or tall water so it basically means that
when you're in one of the houses particularly if you're upstairs
you've got a great view of the water out to sea, as you can see here so Ard
Uisce means high water so that's the meaning behind that and the next one
also has the word ard in it and this is Ard na gCuan
and this means high harbour or high bay so it's quite close to Ard Uisce
geographically speaking and you've got a great view of Rosslare harbour from the
back of this housing estate and that's where the name originates from so gCuan
there's an urú there the G before the C is an urú so that means harbour
or bay, Ard na gCuan = high harbour or high bay. Our next estate then is Lus Mór
and this means large flower or large plant so lus is another word for
flower or plant you're probably more familiar with bláth or bláthanna for
flowers but lus is another word that you can use for plant so lus an bhalla
for example is a wallflower- lus an bhalla and Lus Mór basically
means big plant or big flower like I said, anytime you have mór at the end of
something it means large or big m-ó-r, for example there's
a little village in South Kilkenny, not too far from Waterford called
Glenmore and that comes from the Irish Gleann which is Irish for glen and mór
which is big so the village of Glenmore it's basically an anglicized version of the large glen
so moving on then to another housing
estate and this one is called Coill Aoibhinn and this means heavenly woods
or joyous forest so Coill is to do with woods or forest and Aoibhinn is heaven
or to adore something, so I would probably have said in previous videos
Is aoibhinn liom Gaeilge = I adore Irish, something like that so
it's a stronger way of saying Is maith liom/Is breá liom
so Is maith liom = I like, Is breá liom = I love Is aoibhinn liom = I adore, so that's where
that name comes from Coill Aoibhinn = heavenly woods. Our next estate here is
Cluain Dara so cluain is meadow and dara comes from oak so it basically
means the Oak Meadow, dara- you'll find that in a lot of place names
throughout Ireland for example County Kildare is Cill Dara
so cill is church and in dara is oak so it means the oak church and that's
Cill Dara and it's been anglicized then to be Kildare, and Derry in the northern
part of Ireland Derry- the name Derry comes from the Irish for oak
which is Doire as well, it's sort of a derivative of of oak so Derry is known
as the oak leaf county as well you'll often see that on their GAA crests and
jerseys & stuff like that so thats where that comes from
Cluain Dara = Oak Meadow and that's a little bit of the history behind that so maybe there
was a a meadow there prior to the housing estate
being built and that's where the name originates from
so that brings us to the end of this video, if you enjoyed this type of video and you'd like to see more
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slán go fóill.