So, all attempted pronounciations please for where you'll arrive at 3 miles down the road? (Had me stumped for years.) Oh - and an extra few from the lovely sunset light up in the north coast on Saturday night. So, the Causeway museum, the beautiful sky over the ruins of Dunluce castle, the entrance to the Bushmills Inn and John Willis' painting of Finn at the pub . Enjoy.
Talking of odd Irish placenames, what about Termonfeckin on the way to Dublin?? I always wondered were people who lived there called Termonfeckers?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how to write phonetically, but would it be something like:
ReplyDeleteLiznah-ger-know-gh. With the emphasis on liznah.
Ali, I always smile at the sign for Llanfairfechan on the road to Holyhead in North Wales.
Trust you Ali!
ReplyDeleteCosmo, I've relations living in "Clan - fair - feckin"....
for ref, the locals refer to Lisnagunogue as Lis-na-GUN-ya. I'll never be done learnin'.