Happened to stumble on this the other night: http://www.28thmass.com/Article_Pronounciation.htm Looks like "Faugh a Ballaugh" and the other variants are only phonetic spellings (using English rules, no less <G>) of "Fág an Bealach". I thought it might be an archaic spelling, but this settles it. Judging from page 5 in the link above, this was being discussed 20 years before the ACW. Dennis mailto:fran@ees.eesc.com Sterling Heights, Michigan USA