Perhaps a better understanding of the Irish language which give the towns, villages and townlands their underlying meaning would help visitors pronounce them correcty rather than the use of English and Ulster Scottish pronouncation.
Here are 11 place names that may challenge a newcomer. There are many others!
9. What's your take on Mid Ulster place names?
The Sperrin village of Moneyneany, a few miles outside Draperstown, is mostly referred to as Moneyneena by locals. Not 'Money-meeny' Photo: Google Maps
10. What's your take on Mid Ulster place names?
Home of Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, the village of Bellaghy can often trip visitors up. There are a few ways of pronouncing it: 'Beh-la-hee', 'Bella Hee' or 'Be LAG ee'? Photo: Google Maps
11. What's your take on Mid Ulster place names
You can spell this South Derry village in two ways - Knockloughrim or Knockcloghrim - and it can be pronounced a couple of ways either 'Noc-clough-rim' or 'Noc-cloc-rim' with the latter prounciation the most common. Photo: Google Maps
12. What's your take on Mid Ulster place names?
The small village of Clonoe, near Coalisland, close to the western shores of Lough Neagh is often pronounced 'Clone-oh' or 'Clo-no'. Probably 'Clon-noe' would be the most common way of pronouncing it. Photo: Google Maps