Hi Listers,
As a kid in Belfast, I was intrigued by so many Irish place names
starting in Bally... Those who know tell me it's derived from the Gaelic
'Baile na', meaning 'place of'. My mother would recite with a smile, the
popular ditty of the time:
/If you weren't so Ballymena with your old Ballymoney, I'd buy a
Ballycastle for my own Ballyholme./
My mother was one for such sayings, so much so you'd be forgiven if you
thought she'd kissed the Blarney, but I doubt she was ever that far south.
There must be lots of these folk expressions which have fallen into
disuse and now sadly lost.
Gordon
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