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Alun
 
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Default Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles

steamer wrote:
--IIRC it's spelled "shilelagh"; vague memory from Scrabble, heh.

In its anglicized form it's usually spelt "shillelagh" (note the
double-l) and the Irish is "sail-éílle". That having been said, there's
a place not far from me in County Wicklow also called Shil(l)elagh, the
Irish name of which is Síol Ealaigh.

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Alun Saunders