I saw that yesterday as a âtranslation of Irish place namesâ
But in a lot of places its a translation of English/Norman/Viking place names
Viking Meadow is not a translation of Cill MhantĂĄin
Loch Gorman
Port Lairge
Ceatherlach
BĂĄile Atha Cliath
All have different meanings to the above.
But in other cases they have given the meaning of the Irish translation for say Mayo.
I guess itâs more to do with the oddity that some county names in Irish have nothing to do with their county names in English and others are derived completely from them.
Itâs my strong impression that the venn diagram of people whoâŚ
i) believe no government should care about any bad thing happening anywhere else in the world and definitely not intervene in any way to stop or solve any bad things happening anywhere else in the worldâŚ
and
ii) people on the INTERNET who most loudly castigate other people for not intervening in violent street incidents (demanding these people put their personal safety at considerable risk) while simultaneously virtue signalling that they would do (from behind a keyboard)âŚ
Purpose of visit:- itâs reputed to be the burial place of many Knights Templar who had a settlement in Creadon (pronounced locally as Craydon) Head.
Interesting thing :- as I pulled up there was a man in a car talking on a phone who noticed my interest in the graveyard and started talking to me at length.
Main takeaways from conversation:-
The graveyard is on the ancient Cork to London road.
The road goes as far as Creadon where the Knights Templar ran a ferry to Templetown in Wexford from where the road continued.
The cemetery is divided into two parts. The lower end is for the poor people and the upper end is for the wealthy. There are Lord Mayors of Waterford buried there.
There is a babies graveyard there
There are as many as 10,000 bodies in the graveyard (looks implausible)
The church in the graveyard, which is in ruins now, was a thatched church.
Creadon is called TrĂĄ na MnĂĄ Gorm in the Gaelic (this is indeed the case). There are many theories why this might be. There is a theory that it was a staging post for slavers. Bean Gorm is a black woman in the Gaelic.
My interlocutor had the theory that it was because the Knights Templar had a settlement there. They were from the Levant and so had darker skin and they wore Kaftans in the Levantine style that gave them a feminine appearance from a distance.
The famous treasure of the Knights Templar is buried under a gigantic rock slab under the bog (man made) at Creadon.
Youâre a kind of a one-man BĂłrd FĂĄilte south east advertising machine.
Yourself and Powery should have a podcast where you can regale us with reports from more obscure areas and points of interest in the Decies.
Youâll need a catchy title, I loves me county by Fagan & Powery wonât cut it.
I always thought gorm was blue and dubh was black.
Interesting fact that I forgot earlier. Architect John Roberts who I think designed the Catholic and Church of Ireland Cathedrals in Waterford was originally buried in the cemetery but his body was exhumed and reburied in his native Monaghan.
Red Square in Waterford is officially John Roberts Square.
