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>It was from this story that Oweynagat got its name, which is Irish Gaelic for ‘the cave of cats’.

Kinda strange "Oweynagat" doesn't sound like an Irish word . The actual Irish would be "an uaimh cait" ,it might have been anglicized.

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"Cat" in Irish is a masculine noun of the first declension, so the genitive plural for "cave of cats" would be "uaimh na gcat" - it's easier to see the Anglicization then into "Oweynagat".

yeah that makes a lot more sense, i'm years out of school and i was never good at Irish but the word stuck out.

There is no y in the Irish alphabet, could be the reason it sticks out.

or w

More like "Uaimh na gCat" (If my, admittedly, fairly rusty Irish is anything to go by).

>fairly rusty Irish

mines worse

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