Etymology

Cobh

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

Irish an Cóbh ← English cove
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  1. English · derived fromcove
  2. Irish · borrowed froman Cóbh
  3. English todayCobh

From Irish an Cóbh, itself a Gaelicisation of English cove. Part of a wave of renamings in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.