Want to add any? Leave them in the comments and I’ll amend the post later.
Did this on Facebook a while back and got a lot of replies. Here are some choice places in Ireland:
Muff
Nobber
Sally Gap
Termonfeckin
Tubbercurry
Ringsend
Bastardstown
Dyke Parade
Ballinaboy
Belgooly
Ballsbridge
Letterfinish
Blackbox Theatre, Dyke Rd, Galway
Moll’s Gap
Ring
Laytown
Effin, County Limerick
Sandymount
Strangalowilly, Co Tyrone
Meelick
Freemount
Stillorgan
Naad, Cork
Mount Juliet
Mount Daisy
The Giant’s Ring, Belfast
South Ring Road
Dundonald
Bangor
Ringaskiddy
Skeheenarinky, Tipperary
Gaggin, Cork
Spunkane
Kilcock, Co. Kildare
Bastardstown, Co. Wexford
Cannawee, Co. Cork
Ballycocksoost, Co. Kilkenny
There’s a place in Meelick called Woodcock Hill and another place in Clare – Killaloe sounds funny too!!!
Horetown, Co. Wexford
Love Lane, Lower Mount Street, Dublin
🙂
It’s Termonfeckin
Not that I’m pedantic or anything, obviously…
Cockhill Road, Stamullen, Co. Meath
Longwood
Knicker, Co. Limerick
Meanus, Limerick
Was up in Tubbercurry Sligo last week. The people as mad as the name (in a good craic way)
I once knew someone whose address was Muff Crescent, Nobber
Heh, the Kilkenny townsland register has a few other interesting ones..
Moanmore
Moanteenmore
Cappass
Com
Redgap
Graigueooly
Kirwan’s Inch
Licketstown
Bishopsfurze
Mountnugent Lower
Clashduff Lower
And that’s just one county.,
Horeswood in Wexford.
Apparently.
Used to build and localise websites for a US multinational. They insisted we use their US designed “bad word checker” to filter form input. We had to get them to change it radically when we pointed out that it was blocking legitimate Irish addresses like “Kill”, “Kilcock” etc.
Dyke Parade got me 🙂
Ballymacahola, Co. Mayo – I’m not making it up!
Don’t forget Inchygaggin
Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Co. Galway.
I once walked down Cunt Strasse! not in Ireland mind ya, but Germany.
faggot hill cork
Beggars Bush, Dublin 4.
Sneem, Kerry.
Dingle, Kerry.
Bruff, Limerick.
Belgooly, Co. Cork.
Strokestown, Rosscommon.
Ballylickey, Co. Cork.
Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry.
Beevrack, Co. Clare.
Newquay, Co. Clare.
Cranny, Co. Clare.
Meelick, Co. Clare.
Rearcross, Co. Tipp.
Mountlucas, Co. Offaly.
Rapemills, Co. Offaly.
Blue Ball, Co. Offaly.
Nutt’s Corner, Co. Aintrim.
Jennymount, Co. Aintrim.
Ballyboylands, Co. Aintrim.
Dickey’s Town, Ballyeaston. NI
Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
Fairymount is described by Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, as a “Polite word for buggery”.
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Tonlegee Road
Jacks Hole, Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow
I’m pretty certain I went to a gay night on Lesbian Lane in Galway, once.
(It may have been Dyke Road…)
Purcellsinch (Co.Kilkenny)
Carnalway (near Moone, Co. Kildare)
…and I live in Horeswood (see valueireland above)
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Nice list, I never looked at Sandymount like that before, so how about Sandycove as well 😉
i once lived on a street called bell end in dublin!!!
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@ A Hive In Limerick:
Well, some people would not be able to spell the philosopher’s name. A Kant in German not necessarily is a Kant in English.
Why did Harolds Cross? to get a Fair View and see Dollymount!
Dingle