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Hrmph, I certainly do remember that place! I'm looking at the pamphlet right now. It says, "The timeworn, beautifully located castle has a romantic air--it is somehow fitting that Cilgerran is forever associated with the abduction in 1109 of Nest, the Welsh 'Helen of Troy', by a besotted Owain, son of the prince of Powys, an act which set all Wales aflame. The castle as it now stands dates from a century later, when the powerful Norman baron William Marshal the younger set about rebuilding it following a troubled period of capture and recapture from the Welsh in this hotly disputed area."
Mav, I wish you'd tell about the meaning of "slighted", and how you came to know that.
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Any etymological connection?
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Slighted seems to be one of those 'terms of art' used specifically to refer to the deliberate spoiling of a castle's defences in order to void its usefulness to any subsequent holders of the fortification (no idea where I picked up that useless gem!). I once ate a mologyThere’s a Norwegian hamlet called Stil Cut through by a delicate rill; But the wood pulping mill Makes the young fish quite ill ~ Now the rill has it fill of dead krill! men in, er, white (an alternative Krill)… http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prediction/51/text-files/krill.html
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What does *that say about the "Catskills"?
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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!
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I notice the word coulomb in the middle of this name. So - is it a holy place in a valley where the atmosphere is electric? 
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I remembered wondering where they got this name from and what it might mean:
Killinaboy
This is a town half way between Ennis and LisdoonvarnaI loved the way this name rolls off my tongue in County Clare, Ireland
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