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Courtenay
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Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Innisfail, Queensland. (When I lived elsewhere in Sydney as a schoolgirl, not far from us was one house with the name tag "Innisfail", & a neighbouring house one or two doors away had a matching name tag "Innisfallen". However, "ceud mile fáílte" means a hundred thousand welcomes in Irish Gaelic). Smile  

I'd wondered where Innisfail's name comes from, and your post here inspired me to look it up — interesting info from Wikipedia that suggests the origin of your neighbours' house name "Innisfallen" as well:

Later in 1879, Irishman Thomas Henry Fitzgerald arrived in the area to establish a sugar industry at his Innisfail Estate (now the locality of that name). He was accompanied by large numbers of Kanaka South Sea Islanders workers accompanied by smaller numbers of Irish labourers. The house built by Fitzgerald and thus the first establishment in the area was called Innisfallen, after the largest island in the Lakes of Killarney, Ireland. Inis Fáil (island of destiny) is an ancient Irish name for Ireland itself.

Back to the game... Giggle

Leongatha, Victoria, Australia (nice country town in South Gippsland, not far from where I grew up) 

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Posted : September 19, 2025 9:32 pm
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