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Thread #114320   Message #2438690
Posted By: spidra
12-Sep-08 - 04:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Maid of Listowel
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Maid of Listowel
You folks are good!

My only hesitance about substituting "Shanballymore" for "Strandballymore" is that neither the Shanballymore in Galway nor the Shanballymore in Cork is located on a body of water. The one in Cork is at least within some miles of a river, but it's still not a town you'd expect ships to sail in.

Can't find a modern reference to Strandballymore. Towns simply called Ballymore (one in Donegal, one in Westmeath and one in Wexford) aren't on the ocean, either.