Etymology

Bantry

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Today it means: A town in West Cork, County Cork, Ireland. Full definition →

Irish Beanntraí ← Old Irish Benntraige
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The story

  1. Old Irish · derived fromBenntraige“people of Benn”
  2. Irish · borrowed fromBeanntraí
  3. English todayBantry

From Irish Beanntraí, from Old Irish Benntraige (“people of Benn”). The North American place names derive from the Irish toponym.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.