Talk:How Are Things in Glocca Morra?

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I wish to note the closeness of the name to the phonetic pronounciation of Loch Mohr Gaelic for Big Lake as a possible source RichardBond (talk) 02:39, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Glockamara

At present, there's no article for Glockamara and Google Maps can't locate it. The sole reference I found today was this old news: From

"Four people died in a multi-vehicle collision a few miles from Cahir in Co Tipperary.

"Those who died have been named. They were 71-year-old Mary Dalton, from Glockamara in North Cork and two of her daughters, Kathleen Quish, 47 and Mary Downes, 31. One of Mary Downes' sons, Robert, aged four, was also killed.

"Another grandchild, aged six, has been taken to Cork University Hospital where his condition has been described as critical." Darci (talk) 02:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

I also couldn't find a Glockamara, excepting the accident which spoke of a place near Mitchelstown. That could be a small Hamlet or neighborhood, but it could have also been named in more recent times, as Finian's Rainbow was popular in Ireland. Such a tiny place with few mentions is unlikely to be the inspiration to non-Irish citizens.

However, in the Lough Derg area there is a civil parish of Youghalarra (found in a number of Wikipedia articles, including multiple mentions here), which many locales believe was the inspiration for Glocca Morra. In fact there is a B&B in Killaloe in the Lough Derg region that has named itself Glocca Mora because of that perceived connection. Neither Hamburg nor Saidy was from, or closely connected to, Ireland, but the Lough Derg area has been a popular leisure & tourism area for well over a century, so either of them, or someone they knew, could have visited the area and heard the name Youghalarra and the writers may have misrepresented it, intentionally or accidentally.

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Glocca Morra

Wikipedia is incorrect about this. Glocca Morra is Not a fictional place, it is a small section of land near Fermoy in county Cork with a tiny hamlet consisting of an inn and a few houses. It is on the old Cork-Dublin road which has since been bypassed by the motorway.

See map; https://www.strava.com/activities/10476740

I'm now 51 years old but as a child whenever we drove to Dublin my father would always break in to song as we passed Glocca Morra. And it did indeed have the very large weeping willow tree that Petula Clark sung of, most tragically the willow tree was cut down about 15 or so years ago and a property was built on the site.

Ken Cashman, Cork. Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken Cash (talk) 04:55, 22 May 2017 (UTC)