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Listowel Pitch and Putt Course
This course is always beautifully maintained. It’s a much appreciated local treasure.
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Where the streets have two names
Is Listowel the only town in Ireland where the streets have two names?
The Irish name translates as Upper Ashe Street.
The name in English translates as Sráid an tSéipéil Uachtarach.
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More Memories from Tom Linnane of Littor
from Shannonside Annual 1956
More tomorrow
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A Fact
(From my Book of the Year 2019/ The world’s weirdest news)
Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page, has a long running dispute with his next door neighbour over, among other things, the allegation that he plays his music too loud.
Who is this neighbour?
Robbie Williams.
What music is he playing too loudly?
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd according to a letter sent by Page to his local council.
Williams’ representative denied everything.
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Jim Ryan
Is Listowel the only town in Ireland where the streets have two names?
The Irish name translates as Upper Ashe Street.
The name in English translates as Sráid an tSéipéil Uachtarach.
There are a few Mary –
William Street
Charles Street
Also in Dublin
http://www.photopol.com/signs/sraidbac/dubstreet.html
listowelconnection
That’s very interesting Jim. However Listowel’s case is different in that the Irish version of the street name is not a translation or even mistranslation of the English. It is a whole different street name. This came about because of a failed initiative to rename the streets after the leaders of the Rising on the 50th anniversary of 1916. It was eventually decided to leave the English names as they were, as much for commercial reasons as any other and to rename the streets in Irish only.
Bryan MacMahon referred to Church Street as Ashe Street and some people living in Upper William Street refer to it as Patrick Street.
Interestingly in Cork city The Grand Parade is rendered in Irish as Sráid an Chapaill Bhuí