Beautiful & neat saying! Jim McKane South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:34 PM Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > As a kid in Belfast, I was intrigued by so many Irish place names starting > in Bally... Those who know tell me it's derived from the Gaelic 'Baile na', > meaning 'place of'. My mother would recite with a smile, the popular ditty > of the time: > > *If you weren't so Ballymena with your old Ballymoney, I'd buy a > Ballycastle for my own Ballyholme.* > > My mother was one for such sayings, so much so you'd be forgiven if you > thought she'd kissed the Blarney, but I doubt she was ever that far south. > > There must be lots of these folk expressions which have fallen into disuse > and now sadly lost. > > Gordon > > -- > _________________________________ > Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. > Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon Skype id: neredon > Emails: [email protected] [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ > (_internal_name)s
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