Love it! 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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