Hello again,
I posted to this forum a few months ago looking for guidance on a tattoo. I have recently finalized my design idea and would like some additional input from more than the two people who thankfully helped me out in the last post I made. I am going to get the A in the Irish Gaelic type font "Bunchló GC". Refer to: http://www.gaelchlo.com/bungc.html (The first A you see in the alphabet).

I will be getting that A about 3 inches tall on my chest and within the bottom part of the A that connects these parts /\ , I will have Beanna Na Bealo written in the Bunchló GC font tightly so it almost still looks as if its just the normal A from afar. The whole idea behind this is to represent my 2 day adventure hiking the 12 bens with my best friend and the month we spent in Ireland.

My questions are on...
1) Is it Beanna Na Bealo -or- Na Beanna Beola
2) the translation of it? Ive been told 'the peaks of beola' - the closest translation of 'the 12 bens / pins' (whatever you want to call them)
3) and any addtional knowledge on these gaelic fonts or anything you would like to share!!

Thanks a ton,
Tyler

Well if you look it up in Pota Focal, it's - na Beanna Beala (with an 'a' at the end - when I saw what you had there - the 'o' at the end did look a bit strange)

Thank you for the input, I now need to get even more input on this. Making sure I don't tattoo anything that isn't correct

Sorry it should be Beanna Beola - I've just checked it again on Logainm.ie

Yes. And if you include the "Na" (the definite article "the"), the "n" should be uppercase as well.

Redwolf

So what your saying is Beanna Bealo is Twelve Bens and Beanna Na Beola is The Twelve Bens?

No, "bealo" doesn't mean anything in Irish. It appears to be a misspelling of "beola". Not sure where you got that.

Beanna Beola
= Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins [Literally: "Peaks of Beola"]

Na Beanna Beola [you misplaced the word "na"]
= The Twelve Bens or The Twelve Pins [Literally: "The Peaks of Beola"]

Note that the number 12 isn't actually there in the Irish.

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Thank you for the input, I actually mistyped when I wrote Bealo. And I have mixed inputs on whether the Na goes infront or in middle. I am hoping to get some more input on this. In my last post there was more of a consensus on it being 'Beanna Na Beola'.

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Also:

*Where might I find a website that I could formulate "Na Beanna Beola" into a copyable sentence so that I can use it in photoshop or something. My goal is to make the bottom part of the A, actually just Na Beanna Beola written tightly in the Bunchló GC font.

*Is there any website you know of what I can find the Gaelic A very large so that I can print and bring to a tattoo artist

Thank you all, this forum is extremely kind and helpful!

Beanna Na Beola would mean "Peeks of the Beola" (though ungrammatically), and that would normally only make sense if Beola were not someone's name. I think there was initially confusion as to what beola meant (I seem to remember wondering myself), and I think there was speculation that it was possibly related to béal, meaning "mouth", which does have beol and beoil as variant forms. The words béal, beol, and beoil are used in some place names, but Beanna Na Beola would, as I said, be ungrammatical (it would need to be something like Beanna Na mBeol). The reference sources I have say that Beola is a proper name (though whose, I couldn't tell you). Beola may have been a god or hero from legend, or perhaps a historic figure, but in any case Beanna Beola works grammatically as "Peaks/Bens/Pins of Beola" or "Beola's Peaks/Bens/Pins".

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

In this case, "Na" definitely goes in front.

Redwolf