The names of Irish places have many origins, which makes for confusion. These are some ways Irish places came to be called what they are:

1) Names which are an Anglicized version of the Irish,

2) Irish names directly translated into English,

3) Names of English origin

4) Names whose Irish and English versions are completely different,

5) A few names of Viking origin.

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