Maigh Nuad / Maynooth

Maigh Nuad / Maynooth is a university town in north County Kildare

Vocabulary:
má = plain, flatland (old spelling: maigh, máigh)
Nuadha = one of the gods in Irish mythology (genitive: Nuad, old spelling: Nuadhat, Nuadhad)
má Nuad = a plain of Nuadha

Grammar:
A reform simplifying Irish spelling was introducted in 1940s.
old spelling > new spelling
maigh, máigh > má
beirbhiughadh > beiriú = boiling
faghbháil > fáil = getting, finding

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