An Old Irish word meaning place or piece of land and a Modern Irish word meaning town or townland; it appears in innumerable Irish and Scottish place-names such as Baile Átha Cliath [Irish, town of the hurdle ford]; Dublin, or Baile an Mhóta [Irish, townland of the mound]: Ballymote. It is usually anglicized as ‘Bally-’.
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| Celtic Mythology: baile |
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- Phantom's Frenzy
- Athenry
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- Baile's Strand
- Baile (family name)
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