Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilnaboy in County Clare also has a remaining example of a Tau Cross.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also located in the parish of Kilnaboy -- as well as Kilnaboy village -- the larger village of Corofin (which has significance for lovers of the 3ft. gauge -- but "mustn't go there" ).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clarecastle in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Fergus.

 

[Calthrop]

County Clare is -- at least according to one account -- named after Clarecastle (or its eponymous castle). There is a parallel, to do with County Mayo; similarly named after a relatively insignificant settlement therein, which has never been the county seat of government: the village of Mayo alias Mayo Abbey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

As Calthrop says, the village of Mayo or Mayo Abbey is not the seat of the county of Mayo; this is Castlebar.

 

[Calthrop]

Castlebar has -- aside from Gaelic football -- two Association Football teams. Another of same in the locality, is that of Ballyvary (alias Bellavary): the Ballyvary Blue Bombers, who unsurprisingly play in blue attire.

 

[D6130]

Ballyvary lies on the N5 trunk road, which connects Castlebar with Longford.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Longford RFC play at Demesne, in the north of the town, and participate in Division 1B of the Leinster League, the second tier of rugby in Leinster, behind the Leinster Senior League. Suttonians RFC play in the same league, and their clubhouse and grounds are based at the JJ McDowell Memorial Grounds at Station Road, Sutton, Fingal, County Dublin.

 

[Calthrop]

Sutton has one of Ireland's surviving Martello Towers (defence-related, built early 19th century). Another such -- Ireland's northernmost, or approximately -- is at Magilligan Point: nearest settlement Castlerock, Co. Londonderry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coleraine in County Londonderry is also a part of the 2015-created Causeway Coast and Glens local government district.

 

[Calthrop]

"Double-barrelled-semi-namesakes" in Quebec Province, Canada: there is there, St. Joseph-de-Coleraine (the final word, indeed after Coleraine, Co. Londonderry; the Quebec town holds an annual Irish heritage festival). Also in Quebec Province, Thetford Mines -- presumably, after Thetford (Norfolk).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thelnetham in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Thetford Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Angles Way long-distance footpath between Great Yarmouth and Thetford passes through Thelnetham and the Suffolk town of Beccles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge also has a church that is dedicated to St Benet.

 

[Calthrop]

A prominent non-university-related event at Cambridge for many centuries (middle ages, to 18th century, after which it declined -- recently "artificially" revived): was the annual Stourbridge Fair (both for "fun", and commerce), held on Stourbridge Common, to the east of the city. The name is from a bridge built in early times, for the road to Newmarket to cross a small river which enters the River Cam nearby: this bridge was called "Steer bridge" = bridge for oxen -- the small river subsequently becoming called, by back-formation, the Stour. Stourbridge, West Midlands, had its name originate in a more straightforward way: as a point where there is a bridge over one of England's several rivers Stour -- in this case, the one which is a tributary of the Severn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Helens in Merseyside also has histrorical connections to glassmaking.

 

[Calthrop]

Not an occupant of the great / serious / profound / mind-expanding literary pantheon; in fact, an exponent of "chick-lit" -- but whose numerous novels, I admit to liking: is Carole Matthews, who was born in St. Helens in 1960. She has, however, long lived in Milton Keynes; the majority of her books are set in that general area of the country.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Telford in Shropshire was also designated as a "new town" under the governmental "third-wave" plans between 1967-1970.

 

[Calthrop]

Near the site of modern Telford, there took place in 1821 what was known as the "Cinderloo Uprising" (the action befell, near two spoil-heaps called the Cinders Hills) -- striking miners were confronted by the military: shots were fired, and several strikers killed. Name obviously modelled on the Peterloo Massacre two years previously -- similar scenario, workers with grievance versus troops -- in St. Peter's Field, Manchester -- and name in turn, obviously a reference to the Battle of Waterloo of 1815. (This kind of satirical wordplay would seem to be something which people like, and have long indulged in -- the same principle as, any and every political scandal for almost the past fifty years, getting called " 'Something-or-other' -gate". Reprehensible, tragic, or whatever, the events may be; a minority of us find this particular sort of playing-with-words, annoying rather than witty.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middleton in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irk.

 

[Calthrop]

Middleton's coat of arms features, among other things, a bird that looks like a heron; and a bee. Bees also appear on the coat of arms of Blackburn -- three of them.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spen Brook was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn.

 

[Calthrop]

The name Spen Brook belongs also to another location not hugely far away: a historic cotton-mill close to Newchurch-in-Pendle (near Nelson).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire also has an annual tradition of a Rushbearing ceremony.

 

[Calthrop]

Leith, City of Edinburgh, also has a Mongolian restaurant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff is another areas where its former docklands have seen redevelopment.

 

[Calthrop]

Coventry is also twinned with a city in "the Americas south of the Mexican border". Coventry's "twin" is Kingston (Jamaica); Cardiff in fact has two: Sucre (Bolivia), and Lima (Peru).

 

[DerekC]

One of the most famous people in Coventry's history is, of course, Lady Godiva who according to legend rode naked through the streets to gain a remission on the taxes which her husband Leofric was levying on his tenants. Whether or not this is true, it appears to be a fact that she endowed a monastery in Coventry and also refounded the minster church at Stow in Lindsey, Lincolnshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Stow in Lindsey is that -- to me, not versed in such matters -- wonderful thing, a Catholic Titular See: the seat of a diocese which no longer functions. Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, has the same status.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilmacduagh in County Galway also has a noted example of a round tower.