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Thread #3753 Message #19593
Posted By: Bruce O.
21-Jan-98 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: Four Irish Songs (!)
Subject: RE: Four Irish Songs (!)
If you take Derry Down to be Gaelic it's Brown Oak. Derry (daire) (or Londonderry as the English renamed it somewhere around 1625) was named from the oaks that grew there.