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Subject: Re: Copse/Wood Boyle
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:18:34 EST

Pat at writes:

<< My grandfather, Martin Shannon, was born in Copse, Boyle, Roscommon. A
cousin visited the area recently and was told that Copse is now called Wood
Boyle. Is this correct? >>

Pat,

This is certainly strange. Of course, a copse (or coppice) is a grove or a
thicket of smallish trees. So it might be that a resident of a townland called
"Copse" might choose to simplify the name to "Wood", but it sounds more like
someone playing a joke on someone else. The official name of the townland is
apparently still Copse - but the Irish residents will often call their
townland or village by names of their own choice.........strange, indeed. Especially
as the newspapers are regularly complicit in this farce <gr>. It will be
interesting to see what other replies you receive.

Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

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