Help me name a house

[TownHallDesigner]

Just bought a house in a rural area. Typically, the address is shared amongst a number of other houses in the same location and a few of them also have names so thinking of naming ours too so it has a more dedicated address (though obviously it has an Eircode).

Any ideas? It’s not near any particular geographical points of interest so things like Riverview are out. The garden is basically just a field at the minute so can’t call it The Oaks etc. because we don’t have any!

Don’t like punny names like Dunroman.

What house names do you know and love?

Agree about naming after a place that's significant to you.
Where you got married/engaged?
House near me is called after a mountain in Tipperary so I presume they have some connection to there.

There are tonnes of "Suir View" "Shannon View" "Liffey View" houses.

Someone I know named the house after their favourite football team (it would have been over my dead body).

Named after a star or constellation e.g. your birth sign but in Irish?

I am ridiculously invested in finding a name for you!

Halla an Bhaile because of your username.

The colour of your walls or front door as Gaeilge "Teach Buí" "An Doras Dearg" "Thinteann feín" from "Níl aon tinn téann ach mo Thinteann feín" ?

Avalon

Fraggle rock

"Fraggle Rock"

Carriage Fraggle

Flipping autocorrect ...
Carriag Fraggle of course

Carraig Freagal?

There is a house in Scarborough near a junction with traffic lights (so you are often stopped there and have time to look) called Thiseldo.
In the latest Kate Atkinson book, Big Skies, she has a couple of her characters living in that house and sets a murder there!

On a more helpful note, you could call it after a place you love.
Or just describe it- The Bungalw or The Fields.
Or translate that description into Irish - but I can't help you with that!

The colour of your walls or front door as Gaeilge "Teach Buí" "An Doras Dearg"

I really like this idea, actually. It's a very natural way to name a house and how some traditional old house names come about. I know one house out weshth that's known locally as an tigh buí because it (apparently) used to have striking yellow doors and window frames. This was years ago, well before my time! But the name remains and even the new owners use it

There's a house opposite a Garda Station in Dublin called "Garda Vista".

Hollyhock House (plant a few out the front and they self seed like mad).

@TheLongRider that's brilliant

It's true!

So funny 🤣