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 Post subject: Bóthar an Tondais
PostPosted: Thu 02 Feb 2017 12:58 am 
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I'm trying to translate a placename and I'm drawing a blank. It's a road on the outskirts of Kilkenny called Bóthar an Tondais / Bohernatownish. Any ideas?

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 Post subject: Re: Bóthar an Tondais
PostPosted: Thu 02 Feb 2017 1:40 am 
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Bóthar an Tondais
I can give you what it sounds like to me:
Bóthar an tSondais = the sonorous road
'sondas' is a type of sound, not unpleasant, but there all the same.
Perhaps there was a tradition of singing, or passing the time in conversation that could be heard, along that road. It sounds like it was a well used road...
'Tondais' could be a misspelling of 'tSondais'
The above is my own interpretation of what the name sounds like to me in Irish.

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 Post subject: Re: Bóthar an Tondais
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