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Two different place names, Baile Átha Cliath, was centred in Watling Street, a more Gaelic part of 'town', than up at the 'Black Pool: where the foreigners had their castles and forts and such. The county is named after the ford at Watling Street which was part of Bealach Laigheann, the ancient road from Tara to Rathnew in Wicklow, long before ...
Why was Áth Cliath chosen as the Irish name for Dublin when
2018年1月17日 · Atha Cliath (Hurdle Ford) was located at a shallow point of the Liffey, caused somewhat by Usher's Island. Usher's Island has now been built up and is part of the South Quay a little east of the Guinness Brewery, it no longer is an island, but it is still known as Usher's Island with Island Road paralleling the river.
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2020年3月27日 · Baile Atha Cliath was founded by the native irish. Dubhlin was founded by the Vikings. Eventually the two towns merged to form Dublin city, but they kept the original irish name of Atha Cliath.
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Baile atha Cliath and Dubh Linn are different places. Baile atha Cliath is the settlement on the Liffey shore that the Vikings established. It means ‘town of the wooden ford’, which was located where the Church street bridge was later constructed. Dublin, however, refers to a monastery behind what you’d now know as Dublin castle.
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2022年7月23日 · The name Baile Atha Cliath ( Town of the Hurdled Ford) is given at a time when there was a settlement in the area close to a religious order. There was no bridge spanning the Liffey and there was a shallow crossing point with wooden platforms with poles either side.
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2024年6月20日 · Bhí oíche den scoth againn le Séamus agus Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta. Ní rófhada uainn an chéad oíche eile
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2023年5月27日 · Dublin is Baile Atha Cliath in Irish, and Bangkok is Krung Thep in Thai. Question I say "significantly" to exclude English names that have direct origins like Cairo vs al-Qahirah or The Hague vs Den Haag.
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2020年6月16日 · The full name for Dublin in Irish is Baile Átha Cliath Dubh Linn which means "the town at the Ford (crossing place) of Hurdles at the Dark Pool. This is where the original Viking city was founded, it is at the top of Dame St in modern Dublin at a point where there is a visible dip in the road, that is where the dark pool is still below the road.
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