Did you see what the original Irish names were for the towns too? It’s very cool to find those since Boston is bound to be some anglo version.
Edit to add… I looked it up out of curiosity and it’s more funny than expected…
The name “Boston” is most likely to have been an ironic reference to the city of Boston in the United States, applied as a nickname to what was described in 1839 as “a few cabins situated on the property of the Marquis of Thomond”.[2] The official Irish-language name recorded in the Placenames Database of Ireland is Boston.[1] The electoral division containing the village is also named Boston in both English and Irish,[4] although a 1929 Act of the Oireachtas gives the Irish name Druim na Doimhne “ridge of the abyss”
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A year ago during a visit to Ireland we found two small villages; Boston and Foxborough.
I grew up in Foxborough, MA(USA). When we told the Irish locals about where we’ve been while at local pubs, no one knew about those two places.
Did you see what the original Irish names were for the towns too? It’s very cool to find those since Boston is bound to be some anglo version.
Edit to add… I looked it up out of curiosity and it’s more funny than expected…
The name “Boston” is most likely to have been an ironic reference to the city of Boston in the United States, applied as a nickname to what was described in 1839 as “a few cabins situated on the property of the Marquis of Thomond”.[2] The official Irish-language name recorded in the Placenames Database of Ireland is Boston.[1] The electoral division containing the village is also named Boston in both English and Irish,[4] although a 1929 Act of the Oireachtas gives the Irish name Druim na Doimhne “ridge of the abyss”
From Wikipedia
Ty for the info. No, I hadn’t looked into the history of the Irish villages. Just loved finding them.