Focal an Lae: Trá

Monday, 12 October 2026

Trá (traw) is the Irish for a beach, a strand.

Every Tra and Tramore on the map is this word. Trá Mhór is simply the big strand. It also means the going out of the tide, so the same word covers the sand and the sea leaving it.

Other days

Bodhrán, the day before · Flaithiúil, the day after

A new Irish word every morning, 386 of them in the round, with the feast days of the Irish year keeping their own. Today’s word. More in the phrases, the names and the place names.