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Title: Clondagauv
Post by: despair on Tuesday 04 March 14 15:40 GMT (UK)

Could someone kindly supply a phonetic description(syllable breakdown?) as to how this placename would be pronounced locally?

Regards
Roger

Title: Re: Clondagauv
Post by: myluck! on Tuesday 04 March 14 16:10 GMT (UK)

There is a place name Cloondagauv in Co. Galway near Portumna in the south east of the county
Famous for a castle belonging to the Burke family

The name comes from an Anglicization of the Gaelic/Irish;
Cluain dá Dhamh which translates as the "meadow of the two oxen"

It is pronounced, as three syllables: Clue in - Daw - Gaw fhh

editted to add
Link to OSI maps (http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,580550,699724,7,3)
Shown on Cregg Point as Cloondadauv

Title: Re: Clondagauv
Post by: despair on Tuesday 04 March 14 16:39 GMT (UK)

Many thanks for the full and speedy response.I have seen a number of slight variants but you have the right place.I was trying to determine,,if in oral memory,it could possibly be confused with Clontarf.I thought the d might possibly be pronounced as a t,but had no clue about the ending.I have seen it Anglicised as Clandegoff(or similar).

Regards
Roger

Title: Re: Clondagauv
Post by: myluck! on Tuesday 04 March 14 16:51 GMT (UK)

I had an aunt who lived not far from there  ;D