The story
- Irish · derived fromDún Garbhán
- English todayDungarvan
From Irish Dún Garbhán (for the town in Co. Waterford) and Dún Garbháin (for the village in Co. Kilkenny), both from Garbhán, a given name derived from garbhán (“rough person or thing”), from garbh (“rough”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.