ATHENRY(Settlement)Irish Athenry (Baile Áth an Rí) meaning "Town of the Ford of the King" is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres east of Galway city.
AVALBANE(Settlement)Irish (Anglicized) Anglicized form of Irish Abhaill Bhán "white orchard". This is or was the name of a township in the civil parish of Clontibret in County Monaghan, Ireland.
BEDDGELERT(Settlement)Welsh A village in northwest Wales. The name means 'Gelert's grave', from Welsh bedd, 'grave' & Gelert, whose identity is a subject of debate.... [more]
BETWS-Y-COED(Settlement)Welsh A village in rural North-West Wales. The element betws, in Welsh means 'prayer house'. The y is the definite article 'the'. The final element coed means 'trees'. This gives a full name meaning 'prayer house in the forest'... [more]
CARDIFF(Settlement)Welsh The capital city of Wales. Cardiff derives from the city's Welsh name Caerdydd, which in turn was derived from the city's Old Welsh name Caerdyf (In Welsh f (v) is often mutated to dd (th)).... [more]
CILL MHANTÁIN(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Irish name for the county of WICKLOW. Meaning "church of Mantan". It is named after a peer of Saint Patrick. Mantan had his teeth knocked out by Irish pagans, and then he was renamed Mantan, which means "toothless one".
CORCAIGH(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Irish form of CORK.
CORK(Settlement & Political Subdivision)Irish A county and city in IRELAND. Meaning "swamp".
CORNWALL(Political Subdivision & Region)Cornish A place next to DEVON at the bottom of southwestern England. Named due to the old tribal name "Cornwealas" which eventually turned into "Cornwall". Name thought to come from the a Celtic word for "horn" or "headland" and old English "Wealas" which means strangers... [more]
CWM GWAUN(Settlement)Welsh Cwm Gwaun (English: Gwaun Valley) is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The name itself is derived from Welsh cwm "valley" and gwaun "heath, moor".
CYMRU(Country)Welsh From Proto-Celtic kom- meaning "with, together" and mrogis meaning "region, country, territory". This is the Welsh name for Wales.
DEMELZA(Settlement)Cornish Name of a hamlet in Cornwall, sometimes explained as a contraction of Cornish Dinas Maeldaf "fort of Maeldaf", but more likely derived from Cornish ty "house" and malsai "eel".
DERRY(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish City and country in Northern IRELAND. May mean "oak wood", from 'Daire Coluimb Chille', meaning "The Oak-wood of Saint Columba". Or the name may have been from Proto-Celtic 'calg-ac-os', meaning "possessing a blade" or "possessing a penis".
DOIRE(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Irish form of DERRY.
DONEGAL(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish County and town in IRELAND. Meaning "place of foreigners" (i.e. the Vikings). Alternatively, it may mean "land of Conall", a king from the area. Conall means "strong wolf".
GALWAY(Settlement & Political Subdivision)Irish City and county in IRELAND. Means "fort Gaillimh", named after the GAILLIMH river that flows through the city.
GWALIA(Country)Welsh (Archaic) Gwalia is an archaic Welsh name for "Wales". It derives from the Medieval Latin Wallia, which in turn is a Latinisation of the English 'Wales'. Although never as widely used as Cymru, Gwalia was once popular as a poetic name for the country.... [more]
KENWYN(Settlement)Cornish This is the name of a town and river, located in the south-western English county of Cornwall, which is called Keynwynn in Cornish. It is said that the name is derived from Cornish keyn meaning "back, keel, ridge" and gwynn meaning "white, fair, blessed."
KILDARE(Region)Irish, English From Irish Cill Dara meaning "church of the oak".
KILKENNY(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Town and county in IRELAND. Means "church of Cainnech". Saint Cainnech was the man who converted the county to Christianity in 597.
KILLOUGH(Settlement)Irish Killough, derived from Irish Cill Locha "church of the loch", is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
LEEDS(Settlement)Celtic Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It derives it's name from a Brythonic term Ladenses, meaning 'people of the fast-flowing river' (Welsh llawd). The word likely originally denoted a forest which covered the area of modern day Leeds.... [more]
LEITRIM(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish County and town in IRELAND. Meaning "gray ridge", from 'liath' ("grey") and 'droim' ("ridge").
LIFFEY(River)Irish The River Liffey runs through the city of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. In poetry and mythology, the river is called Abhainn An Life, which is occasionally anglicized as 'Anna Liffey'
LIHOU(Island)Norman, Breton Island in the Channel Islands in ENGLAND. From the Breton words 'lydd' or 'ligg', meaning "in or near water", and the Norman suffix -'hou', meaning "island". The island and reef in AUSTRALIA named after this island.
LIVERPOOL(Settlement)English, Welsh A port city in western England on the mouth of the River Mersey. Uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Cumbric words equivalent to the Welsh leidiau, meaning 'mud' and pwll, meaning 'pool', or else the Old English formation *Liferpōl, 'thick, muddy pool'.
LLANBERIS(Settlement)Welsh A village in North Wales. The first element is Welsh llan, 'parish, church of-'. The second is a corruption of Peris, a 6th century Welsh saint.
LOCH GARMAN(Political Subdivision)Irish Irish name for the county of WEXFORD. Named after Garman Garbh, a legendary figure, who was drowned in the mudflats at the mouth of the river Slaney by an enchantress, resulting in the lake that bears his name... [more]
LONDONDERRY(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Another name for DERRY. The prefix -london was added because donations from the city of LONDON help rebuild Derry in 1613.
LONGFORD(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Town and county in IRELAND. Meaning "the port".
MINQUIER(Island)Breton, Norman, English An island chain in the Channel Islands, ENGLAND. Could be from Breton 'minihi', meaning "sanctuary, or from 'minkier' meaning "seller of fish".
MONAGHAN(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Town and county in IRELAND. Means "land of little hills", "bushy field", or "hilly field".
MOURNE(Mountain)Irish Both the name of a mountain range and a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "misty fists" from Irish múig "smoke, gloom" and dorn "fist".
ROSCOMMON(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish County and town in IRELAND. From the Irish 'Ros Comáin', meaning "Saint Coman's wood", after Saint Coman mac Faelchon who built a monastery there in the 5th century.
SASANA(Country)Irish Irish name for ENGLAND, from the Saxon people group.
SAWEL(Mountain)English, Irish (Anglicized) Sawel Mountain (historically known as Slieve Sawel) is the highest peak in the Sperrins, a mountain range in Northern Ireland. This is an Anglicized form of Irish samhail meaning "likeness", taken from its Irish name Samhail Phite Méabha "likeness to MÉABH's vulva", referring to a glen or hollow on the side of the mountain.
SLIGO(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Town and county in IRELAND. Means "shelly place", because of the large amount of shellfish the nearby river.
SPARTA(Settlement)English, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Manx, Polish, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, History From Doric Greek Σπάρτα (Sparta) and Attic Greek Σπάρτη (Spartē), which is of uncertain origin but possibly derived from σπάρτον (sparton) meaning "rope, cable" - a reference to the cords laid as the city’s foundation boundaries, though this could be just a folk etymology.... [more]
TIPPERARY(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish Town and county in IRELAND. From TIOBRAID ÁRANN, meaning "well of the Arra". The Arra is a river that flows through it.
TREDEGAR(Settlement)Welsh A town in South-East Wales. Its name derives from the Old Welsh tref, which means 'town' or traditionally 'farm, estate', and degewr, which meant 'ten acres'.
TREWELLARD(Settlement)Cornish Trewellard is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
TYRCONNELL(Political Subdivision)Irish Another name for the Irish county of DONEGAL. It means "land of Conall", a king from the area. Conall means "strong wolf".
WATERFORD(Settlement)Irish A city in Southern Ireland. Its name derives from Old Norse veðra, 'ram' (Swedish vädur, 'ram', See WETHERBY) and fjord, 'fjord'.
WICKLOW(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Irish, Ancient Scandinavian Town and county in IRELAND. From Old Norse 'víkingalág' or 'vikinga-ló', meaning "meadow of the Vikings".