Bodyke
Sign in to saveBodyke (; ) is a village in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in eastern County Clare in the Catholic parish of Bodyke. During the 1880s, a series of evictions in the Bodyke area were widely publicised.
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Bodyke (; ) is a village in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in eastern County Clare in the Catholic parish of Bodyke. During the 1880s, a series of evictions in the Bodyke area were widely publicised.
==Location and etymology== The village of Bodyke lies in the foothills of the Slieve Aughty mountains. According to the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, the name of the village may come from the Irish Both-Teig, meaning "Teig's hut".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bodyke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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