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Etymology
burge + 's + teoune
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Burstheoune
- Bridge's town
1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.- He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110