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Stan Carey

View of the Maamturk Mountains and Lough Corrib today. Perfect conditions for a ramble, yet we hardly met a soul

Panorama landscape photo, showing a flat heathery plateau in the foreground, a band of grey-blue lake beyond it, and, in the distance on the left, a range of grey mountain peaks with low clouds rolling across their summits. The lake has a scattering of small islands, with peninsulas jutting in from the far shore. The sky has patches of bright blue behind large swirls of white and grey cumulus cloud. To the left stands a figure in a blue jacket looking down at the scenery.
#hiking#walking#hillwalking
Stan Carey

Bare trees in thick moss on our way to the hill. The area is Derroura woods, from Irish "Doire Abhra". Doire = woods, but I'm not sure about "abhra" – it's a form of "fabhra", which means eyelash or eyebrow. But "fabhra cnoic" = brow of hill, so maybe it refers to the crest of land overlooking the lake

Photo of a rough, narrow road through woodland. To its left, dominating the image, is thick growth of deciduous trees, their branches still bare, with dense light-green moss covering the ground and lower tree trunks. Further along are some evergreens, maybe Douglas fir, and then the road veers right and out of sight. A patch of bright blue sky is visible between clouds to the right.
#Irish#Gaeilge#PlaceNames
Mar 27, 2023, 06:25 PM·Public
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Sliotar

@stancarey

The records at logainm.ie show that it was at one time recorded as Doire Odhra, translated as Hore's Derry, or Hore's Wood.

logainm.ie/20780.aspx

logainm.ieDoire Abhra/DerrouraLogainmneacha agus eolas breise a bhaineann leis an áit seo.
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Stan Carey

@Sliotar Ah, so it does. I checked that page but got sidetracked before I scrolled down. Surname seems a plausible origin

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