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Thread #129893   Message #3301729
Posted By: Vic Smith
03-Feb-12 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: Ballydehob singers club
Subject: RE: Ballydehob singers club
the two rivers or the mouth of the two rivers

Well, I thought that Ballydehob came from the Irish Béal an Dá Chab which would imply, to me, that a ford or crossing point of a river was involved in the title.

Might not a more accurate translation into English be "mouth of the two river fords"?