Sir, - Your correspondent on the subject of windpower (April 14th) quite understandably finds a derivation of "Gweedore" to suit the undoubted fact that there is considerable wind in that part of the world. But then I lived there myself for a spell I understood that "Gaoth Dobhair" was chiefly concerned with water rather than with wind, "Dobhair" being the genitive of "dobhar", a word for water (perhaps, indeed, a torrent), although not one that I had remembered from school, and "gaoth" having nothing to do with the wind. My perception may have had something nothing to do with the fact that my business was to do with harnessing water, not wind, for power. But I couldn't possibly have been so biased, could I? - Yours, etc.,
Glendalough,
Co Wicklow.