School: Star of the Sea Convent, Tramore (roll number 12334)
- Location:
- Tramore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Consiglio
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0651, Page 97
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Ballyduff
The word dubh is applied to a dark visaged personn person is often followed by dá. Ballyduff means the black town.Bunmahon
Bun means the bottom or end of anything. It is often applied to the mouth of a river and many places situated at river mouths have in (the) this manner received their name. Bunmahon in Waterford mean the mouth of the river Mahon.Cappoquon
Ceapach signifies a plot of land laid out for tillage. It has often been asserted and seems generally believed that Cappoquin means 'The head of the house of Con' but this is a mere guess; the name is a plain Irish compound Ceapach-Chuinn meaning Con's plot of land, but no one can tell who this Con was.Bawnfoun
Fionn (white or fair) is pronounced feoun in Munster as in Bawnfeoun in Waterford meaning the (whitl) white or fair coloured field.(continues on next page)
