Coming home on the métro this evening, it made me think of this - the train stopped at a certain métro station (in Paris) and the name is Irish (and even as Gaeilge originally) so can you guess what it is and what the connection with both Dublin and London it has?

I have no idea Franc.

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Ranelagh?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Yes it's Ranelagh/Raghnallach - here they pronounce the 'g' at the end - of course Ranelagh is now a suburb of Dublin and where incidentally the first gaelscoil Scoil Bhríde opened in 1917. One of the Lords Ranelagh took the name of the village as his own and built a residence and garden there, as they did in Chelsea, complete with a very grand rotunda for concerts. Later on the garden in London became a pleasure garden open to the public and as the name Ranelagh was so well-known, it was 'borrowed' for another garden in Paris. It's still there today, which is why we have a métro station in Paris with an Irish name. Sin é
PS I forgot to ask but what does Raghnallach mean?

The old records at logainm.ie include Post Office notes like this:

http://www.logainm.ie/Iomhanna/88/po57179-80_3.JPG


I couldn't find a "Ranelagh" in Co. Wicklow, but there is a Kilranelagh, which is Cill Rannaileach in modern Irish.

Here's something taken randomly off the web:

There are other references to Raghnull and the like in the Post Office notes that tend to support "the Church of the Clan of Raghnall" as the derivation of Kilranelagh, at least.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).