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Begorrah! 2 Ireland Eye-Busters

 
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Posted 11/10/2024   1:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EdziuMM to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Two fragments of cancels...can anyone tell me where these were canceled?
At left, I can make out "....RAIN TRAIGHLI".
At right, I think it begins "LAOISE" and ends "....G AN CHURRAIGH".
Can anyone figure out the Gaelic and English placenames?
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Posted 11/10/2024   1:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Now that I'm looking at the big blowup, I think the one at rights ends with "CO. LAOISE">
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Posted 11/10/2024   1:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Log an Churraigh in Co Laois (Luggacurren)

The other one might be Trá Lí, formerly Tráigh Lí (Tralee).
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Edited by NSK - 11/10/2024 1:21 pm
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Posted 11/10/2024   1:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
WOW! You are swift, NSK! Thank you re Log an Curraigh.
But I'm still puzzled about the ...RAIN before Traighli.
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Posted 11/10/2024   2:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
So am I. I cannot find any townland in Tralee that fits. However, Tráighli might be part of a street name, although I doubt there is sufficient space left for a town name at the bottom. That would leave a place in Tralee itself.

Tráighli appears to be a very rare use. Normally, it is written Tráigh Li. It would not be the first time this happens with Irish cancellations. Rod222 once posted an example.
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Posted 11/10/2024   3:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add aolsson to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is a place close to Traighli called Cathair Uí Mhóráin. I guess it is that.
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Posted 11/10/2024   3:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think you are right.
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Posted 11/10/2024   5:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
THANK YOU two savants!
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Posted 11/10/2024   5:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's Blennerville!
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