In Ireland, Kill is the word for church or holy place. Anyone who went to Paddy WAP saw enough place names with kill in them to get terribly confused. Killarney, Glencoulombkill, Kilkenny, etc. ad nauseam. I did notice when I went back to Glencoulombkill that they were spelling it Glencoulombcille now, thoug continuing to pronounce it with a hard c sound on the last syllable.

BTW, one of the memporable views in Ireland is to be found a few miles east and a bit north of that town, You wind along this narrow mountain pass road until suddenly you come to the downslope. When the sun is just right you would swear that the Lord made it specially as a place of rest for weary travellers to take a moment to catch a breath. As Brona said to me, parts of Donegal are so beautiful you could cry. And I could cry because the day we went through this pass it was so misty that pictures were a blur. When i went over the pass on my bike some years back I took two whole rolls of pictures during my descent, only to have Pan Am lose the rolls during the flight home.

I'm gong back someday!

TEd


TEd