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unusual facts about Patrick Weston Joyce


Purple Mountain, County Kerry

In Irish Names of Places, Patrick Weston Joyce writes that the name comes from the Irish Tuamaidhe and refers to two burial cairns on the summit.


Abhartach

Abhartach (also avartagh, Irish for dwarf) is an early Irish legend, which was first collected in Patrick Weston Joyce's The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1875).

Boylagh

Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Boylagh comes from the territory of the O'Boyles.


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