Editing Cobh (section)

==Name==
The village on Great Island was known as "Ballyvoloon", a transliteration of the Irish ''Baile Ui-Mhaoileoin'' (English: "O'Malone's town"),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=P. W. (Patrick Weston) |url=http://archive.org/details/originhistoryof03joyc |title=The origin and history of Irish names of places |date=1898 |publisher=London, New York, Longmans, Green and co.; [etc., etc.] |others=PIMS - University of Toronto |pages=122}}</ref> while the [[Royal Navy]] port, established in the 1750s, became known as "The Cove of Cork" or "Cove". The combined conurbation was renamed to "Queenstown", in 1849, during a visit by [[Queen Victoria]]. The name was changed to ''Cobh'', during the [[Irish War of Independence]], following the passing of a motion by the local administrative council on 2 July 1920.<ref name=cobh1920>{{Cite news | last = Murphy | first = Elaine | title = 100 years ago Queenstown was renamed to Cobh (Town was the last port of call of the Titanic) | url = https://www.thecork.ie/2020/06/25/100-years-ago-queenstown-was-renamed-to-cobh-town-was-the-last-port-of-call-of-the-titanic/ | newspaper = TheCork.ie | date = 25 June 2020 | access-date = 8 July 2020 | archive-date = 10 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200710153038/https://www.thecork.ie/2020/06/25/100-years-ago-queenstown-was-renamed-to-cobh-town-was-the-last-port-of-call-of-the-titanic/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/sean-oriordan-name-reversal-helped-to-put-cobh-on-the-map-1008208.html | newspaper = [[Irish Examiner]] | title = Sean O'Riordan: Name reversal helped to put Cobh on the map | date = 29 June 2020 | access-date = 8 July 2020 | archive-date = 2 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200702184658/https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/sean-oriordan-name-reversal-helped-to-put-cobh-on-the-map-1008208.html | url-status = live }}</ref> ''Cobh'' is a [[Gaelicisation]] of the English name Cove, and it shares the same pronunciation.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.cobhmuseum.com/cobhtown.html | publisher = Cobh Museum | website = cobhmuseum.com | title = Cobh Town | accessdate = 1 December 2021 }}</ref> It has no meaning in the Irish language.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1737.pdf | publisher = Bureau of Military History | website = militaryarchives.ie | title = Collections - Reels - BMH.WS1737 | date = April 1921 | quote = [Before being renamed] Queenstown in 1847, the town had been simply known as "The Cove of Cork". It could not be given this name now and "Cobh" really had no meaning }}</ref>

In ancient times the area was known as ''Cuan an Neimheadh'' (the Harbour of [[Nemed|Neimheidh]]), a figure in medieval Irish legend. [[Great Island]] was called ''Oileán Ard Neimheidh'' (the high or important island of Neimheidh).<ref name="lewis">{{cite book | url = https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/G/Great-Island-Barrymore-Cork.php | publisher = Lewis | author = Samuel Lewis | title = Lewis: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland – Volume 1 | place = London | date = 1837 | via = Libraryireland.com | access-date = 4 January 2019 | archive-date = 28 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200728210519/https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/G/Great-Island-Barrymore-Cork.php | url-status = live }}</ref>