Das Wurmloch auf Inishmor

These things always make me wish I could swim.

Small thing, but it’s just Poll na bPéist. When we capitalise the English translation and lead with it in the Anglosphere we all live in now – that’s what tends to stick and the original logainm slips into the background leading to a loss of logdiversity.

Inis Mór is in the Gaeltacht, so it’s the living name of the place. The Irish is the actual name. Best practice, if you want to explain the meaning of placename in English, is to write something like “hole/pool (of) the worm/serpent” and never, ever, ever capitalise any of the words in the translation.

Hope this didn’t come off as preaching but here at Gormú, we run Ireland’s only daily placenames walking tour, so we’re a bitín passionate about this. We believe our beautiful logainmneacha are worth preserving and keeping alive. GRMA

Is this sea water, Atlantic? Connected?

Is there a ladder? How do they get out?

Redbull have had their diving championships there a couple of times. https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/red-bull-cliff-diving-2017-ireland-trailer