Talk:Clew Bay

Origin of the name
From a lecture in college years ago, I remember a visiting academic claiming that the name "Clew" probably derives from an old map that stated that the bay has CCCLV (355) islands, which someone later read as a word.

I have no source for this I can quote, so I am placing this pearl of knowledge here, rather than in the article. It is possible this is referenced in the book A dictionary of Irish place-names by Adrian Room (ISBN 0862811325), but I am not certain. &mdash; Eoghanacht  talk 17:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd doubt that story. The commonly held name of a large bay is unlikely to come from a miss-read inscription on a document - especially when the inhabitants of the area were probably illiterate up until the last 150 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.103.187.247 (talk) 21:53, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Picture of Clew Bay
Is that really blue-green algae in Clew Bay? And fishing so important to the locals... Good God, when will farmers ever learn?!! AiFWww (talk) 16:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

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Chart needs explanation
The introductory text to the chart states, "This chart shows the relative positions of the islands ...." The chart has numbers along the top and side. There's no explanation of what the numbers refer to. They can't possibly be degrees of latitude or longitude. The introduction to the chart is footnoted to this article in the Irish Times, but that article sheds no light on the matter. JamesMLane t c 17:50, 26 August 2022 (UTC)