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GUEST,chrisj BS: Help! Gaelic Dubilin name (29) RE: BS: Help! Gaelic Dubilin name 14 Jan 02

Any native speakers of Irish that I know say "B'lá Cliath", (blawklee). Indications are that the Viking settlement was at 'Dubh Linn' the black/dark pool suitable for a harbour,while the 'Átha Cliath' the ford/crossing of the hurdles may have been where the locals had a settlement of some kind. Unusually for the Vikings they appear to have adopted the Irish name for the area unlike other settlements they founded in Ireland.


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