Addergoole
(also Addragool, Adrigole, Adrigoole), Eadar-dha-ghabhal (Adragoul), i.e. (a place) between two (river) forks.

Aghaboy
Achadh-buidhe (Aha-boy), yellow field.

Ardnarea, near Ballina
Ard-na-riaghadh (reea), Hy F., the hill of the executions. Four persons were executed here in the seventh century for the murder of Kellach, bishop of Kilmore-Moy.

Balbriggan, in Dublin
Baile-Breacain, Brecan's town.

Balgeeth, in Meath: the town of the wind (gaeth).

Ballyconnell, in Cavan
According to tradition, Conall Carnagh, one of the most renowned of the Red Branch knights of Ulster, was slain here in the first century; hence it was called Bel-atha-Chonaill, the mouth of the ford of Conall.

Cahersiveen, in Kerry: it exactly preserves the pronunciation of the Irish name Cathair-Saidhbhín, the stone fort of Saidhbhín, or Sabina, a woman's name.

Crock is very generally used in the northern half of Ireland instead of Knock, a hill.

Cavan, Cabhan, a hollow place. In some parts of Ulster it is understood to mean a hard round hill.

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