We have more or less decided, it seems, to eschew Gaelic and to call the house East Poulary Wood. It seems more or less to have named itself. Anyone disagree?
Pluses: Easier to spell (be nice to people that want to write to you) No alternative competing property with the same name (google it and this is the top result)
Minuses: a diminutive or subsidiary name to Poulary itself.
I didn't really want to use the Poulary name, particularly as the original Poulary, now no longer there, was further west and on the other side of the road. But the other virtue of using it is that it is marked on the map.
I do rather like "Easter"; but one reason for not using could be that if we ever split off part of the site for another house, it would be logical to use a comparative identifier.
why not be really radical and have a street number? No 1948 Glen Road? and then we could all just add our choice of name to the envelope without upsetting the postman
Re pa's comment - anyone been reading Elizabeth Goudge recently? She has a couple of barns at her, I think fictional, old abbey site in Hampshire, called the Bouvery and the Bargery: the cow place and the sheep place. Poulary is obviously from a similar branch of the etymological tree. We will certaainly have to keep hens, or wt the very least put a hen on the gatepost. There is a supplier of fancy hens on Skye.
Old Hampshire Gazetteer, East BoldreIt should not be confused with 1300 'la Boverie' where Beaulieu Abbey had a grange chapel (Hockey 1974: lxv), which was Anglo Norman 'bouverie'='ox stall'. ... www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/S0002049.HTM - 4k - Cached - Similar pages
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Pluses: Easier to spell (be nice to people that want to write to you)
No alternative competing property with the same name (google it and this is the top result)
Minuses: a diminutive or subsidiary name to Poulary itself.
But I think overall it's fine.
I didn't really want to use the Poulary name, particularly as the original Poulary, now no longer there, was further west and on the other side of the road. But the other virtue of using it is that it is marked on the map.
So it's not "Coille nan Poll an Airidh an Ear" then :)
You have been swotting. Well, should it be? Another possibility would be Easter Poulary Wood.
Easter Poulary is nice and simple and not too long
I do rather like "Easter"; but one reason for not using could be that if we ever split off part of the site for another house, it would be logical to use a comparative identifier.
You mean East Poulary Wood, Easter Poulary Wood, Eastest Poulary Wood?
You'd definitely get some crossed mail...
I would like Gift Wood as that is what I have been using.
Poulary sounds like where you keep your chickens, on the chicken theme we have Egham or Chicken Run .
why not be really radical and have a street number? No 1948 Glen Road? and then we could all just add our choice of name to the envelope without upsetting the postman
Re pa's comment - anyone been reading Elizabeth Goudge recently? She has a couple of barns at her, I think fictional, old abbey site in Hampshire, called the Bouvery and the Bargery: the cow place and the sheep place. Poulary is obviously from a similar branch of the etymological tree. We will certaainly have to keep hens, or wt the very least put a hen on the gatepost. There is a supplier of fancy hens on Skye.
see what google can do!
Old Hampshire Gazetteer, East BoldreIt should not be confused with 1300 'la Boverie' where Beaulieu Abbey had a grange chapel (Hockey 1974: lxv), which was Anglo Norman 'bouverie'='ox stall'. ...
www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/S0002049.HTM - 4k - Cached - Similar pages
Seems very difficult to get Elizabeth Goudge books these days. Not in shops or libraries.
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