Irish village gets its 'harlot' back

A village in the southwest of Ireland won its battle to get its ancient "harlot" back

For centuries, the village in County Limerick, known as Doon in English, had been known in Gaelic as Dun Bleisce, or Fort of the Harlot, but the name was changed in 2003.

The village's Gaelic name was changed to An Dun, or The Fort in Gaelic

The community argued that, although the literal translation of the word is harlot, the woman who the village was named after in ancient times may not have been a harlot in the sense of the term today.

"People will be delighted. Love of their own comes first, regardless of what she was."

O Cuiv, grandson of Eamon de Valera, one of the Republic of Ireland's founding fathers, has been making thousands of orders reversing mainly anglicised placenames