Dunmore, Co. Galway
Logainm.ie has details on its website of the translation of 21 different High Street locations in 12 separate counties. All the translations are generally consistent – An tSráid Ard. One is An tSráid Mhór which has been subject of a different blog post.
There is a stray fada in Dunmanway and in Cork city but generally An tSráid Ard is what I have seen.
A few months back, we passed through Dunmore in Co. Galway and I had to stop to photograph their own High St.
At first, I thought it may be a trick of translation similar to Listowel but neither ainm.ie or dúchas.ie have a record of a family name “Muchtar”.
Resorting to dictionaries Foclóir.ie, Teaglann.ie and Pota Focal all drew blanks – and not a suggestion as to an alternative.
My best guess, and completely without substantiation, is that it may have set out as ‘Uachtar’ meaning ‘top’. However somewhere between the spoken word and the sign-maker, ‘Ua’ became ‘Mu’.
As for the tuiseal ginideach, they would not be the first or last to not get their head around it – so did it start verbally as An tSráid Uachtair and end up as Sráid Muchtar?
Maybe a return visit is required…
There is a stray fada in Dunmanway and in Cork city but generally An tSráid Ard is what I have seen.
A few months back, we passed through Dunmore in Co. Galway and I had to stop to photograph their own High St.
At first, I thought it may be a trick of translation similar to Listowel but neither ainm.ie or dúchas.ie have a record of a family name “Muchtar”.
Resorting to dictionaries Foclóir.ie, Teaglann.ie and Pota Focal all drew blanks – and not a suggestion as to an alternative.
My best guess, and completely without substantiation, is that it may have set out as ‘Uachtar’ meaning ‘top’. However somewhere between the spoken word and the sign-maker, ‘Ua’ became ‘Mu’.
As for the tuiseal ginideach, they would not be the first or last to not get their head around it – so did it start verbally as An tSráid Uachtair and end up as Sráid Muchtar?
Maybe a return visit is required…
