Cobh

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Cobh

  • /kəʊv/

Sounds like cove

Where it comes from

From Irish an Cóbh, itself a Gaelicisation of English cove. Part of a wave of renamings in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

proper noun

  1. A town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland. Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.

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