Hi, we are planning our house build and need to think of a name for our house. I have a very strong Irish heritage and am also a huge Harry Potter fan I was thinking maybe "The Burrow" in Irish Gaelic. Hoping someone could assist me with this translation please.
Thanks

There are several ways to say "the burrow" in Irish:

For a rabbit's burrow/hole: an poll
For the burrow/den of a badger: an bhrocach
For the burrow/den/earth of a fox: an bhrocach or an bhrocais

Also, because it might seem more like the home of a hobbit, for the cave/den of a bear: an phluais

Note that the word an means "the" -- it's not the English indefinite article "an". It can cause the initial sound of some words to change form (a characteristic of the Celtic languages). For example, the badger's burrow, without a "the" in front of it, is just brocach, but when you add an ("the"), it becomes an bhrocach.

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Thanks

If you want to use the word that they have for it in the Hobbit/An Hobad, it's poll.
www.evertype.com/books/hobad.html

In which case:

An Poll "The Burrow"

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