Il Wormhole (Poll na bPéist) è una piscina perfettamente rettangolare di forma naturale nelle scogliere calcaree di Inishmore, l’isola Aran più grande d’Irlanda. È assolutamente bellissimo durante l’estate.
I hope cliff diving comes back again, savage spot for it
GormuAR on
Small thing, but it’s just Poll na bPéist. When we capitalise the English translation and lead with it in the Anglosphere we all live in now – that’s what tends to stick and the original logainm slips into the background leading to a loss of logdiversity.
Inis Mór is in the Gaeltacht, so it’s the living name of the place. The Irish is the actual name. Best practice, if you want to explain the meaning of placename in English, is to write something like “hole/pool (of) the worm/serpent” and never, ever, ever capitalise any of the words in the translation.
Hope this didn’t come off as preaching but here at Gormú, we run Ireland’s only daily placenames walking tour, so we’re a bitín passionate about this. We believe our beautiful logainmneacha are worth preserving and keeping alive. GRMA
banie01 on
Bless the maker and his water.
Bless the coming and going of him.
May his passage cleanse the world!
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These things always make me wish I could swim.
I hope cliff diving comes back again, savage spot for it
Small thing, but it’s just Poll na bPéist. When we capitalise the English translation and lead with it in the Anglosphere we all live in now – that’s what tends to stick and the original logainm slips into the background leading to a loss of logdiversity.
Inis Mór is in the Gaeltacht, so it’s the living name of the place. The Irish is the actual name. Best practice, if you want to explain the meaning of placename in English, is to write something like “hole/pool (of) the worm/serpent” and never, ever, ever capitalise any of the words in the translation.
Hope this didn’t come off as preaching but here at Gormú, we run Ireland’s only daily placenames walking tour, so we’re a bitín passionate about this. We believe our beautiful logainmneacha are worth preserving and keeping alive. GRMA
Bless the maker and his water.
Bless the coming and going of him.
May his passage cleanse the world!
I always knew Shai Hulud was Irish
Is this sea water, Atlantic? Connected?
Easy to climb out?
Is there a ladder? How do they get out?
I’m almost sure that’s my mam in the blue
Redbull have had their diving championships there a couple of times. https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/red-bull-cliff-diving-2017-ireland-trailer