Baile Chláir

The Irish name Baile Chláir derives from the word 'baile' (town or homestead) and 'clár,' which can mean a plain, flat area, or plank bridge. The fuller form of the name, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, adds the disambiguating suffix 'na Gaillimhe' (of Galway) to distinguish it from other places called Clár. P.W. Joyce, in his Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, recorded that the Four Maste...