Was Dublin named after Blackpool?
Emmitt Cremin
2025-05-05 19:51:39
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The history of Dublin can be traced back over a thousand years. The name of the Viking settlement which came about around the year 841 was called Dyflin. This was derived from the Irish name 'Dubhlinn'. The Irish word 'dubh' means 'black'. Meanwhile, the word 'linn' means 'pool'. So, the old Irish name for Dublin, when translated to English, is Blackpool. This eventually led to the Anglicized version of the city's name, Dublin. The 'black pool' referred to the dark tidal pool where the River Poddle entered the Liffey at the back of where Dublin Castle currently stands.
Ernestine Prohaska
2025-05-01 12:50:47
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The city is named after the pool, now long-since dried. In early Classical Irish, dubh means black or dark and linn means pool, and the pool at the confluence of the River Liffey and one of its tributaries, the River Poddle was tidal, hence the darkness. The site of the former dubh linn has been pinpointed as a garden behind Dublin Castle today.
Around 841, the Viking warlord Turgesius conquered the pre-existing Gaelic ecclesiastical settlement and established a longfort on the edge of a tidal pool known as the dubh linn, an easily defendable natural harbour whence ships could be quickly deployed to Dublin Bay and the Irish Sea.
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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