Was Dublin named after Blackpool?
Chloe Bernier
2025-04-21 11:31:47
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Dublin is not transliterated from or related to the Gaelic name for the area: Baile Átha Cliath and each name describes different things.
As a settlement, Dublin is said to have been first occupied by Viking traders c.988AD.
Sailing their longships up the River Liffey they came upon a dark tidal-pool at the site where the River Poddle and the River Liffey met and which they appropriately named Dyflin, meaning ‘black-pool’, which later took the Irish form: Dubh Linn.
Meanwhile, the native Irish referred to this place as Baile Átha Cliath, meaning the ‘Town of the Ford of Hurdles’.
From the 12th century, Dublin was controlled by the Anglo-Normans who, despising anything overtly Gaelic, chose to retain the Viking version of its name, albeit in an anglicised form, and it became the more dominant name over time.
If the original Irish form was correctly transliterated, Ireland’s capital would be called something like Ballyaclee.
Evert Turner
2025-04-21 09:50:46
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The name comes from the old Irish ‘Dubh Linn’, and that translated to English is Black Pool, but let me say this great city is immensely and nicely far removed from the Blackpool that springs to mind. The gardens of this castle, so full of history, sit where the black pool was. Of course much has changed since the time of vikings and with a great city built around it, together with some great and some rough times through the ages, the castle stands proudly on the highest point of Dublin.
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