Baile Coimín

Baile Coimín, known in English as Blessington, derives its Irish name from the Comyn surname family. The English name 'Blessington' arose from a false etymology first recorded in 1667, confusing the surname Coimín with the Irish word comaoin (blessing). The English name was subsequently gaelicized as Baile na mBeannacht (town of the blessings) in 18th-century manuscripts. However, the original ...