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Garah
Aboriginal Place names Continued
Garah District
Collected by
J Moran
| Name of Place | Meaning or Reason why it was given | Name of Place | Meaning or Reason why it was Given |
| Budalalaba | A place where snakes are plentiful | Gunealah | A Large plain |
| Bogree | A Leaf | Guroi | A Sand ridge |
| Burlahmuta | Numerous Opposums | Murgoo | Balah tree |
| Boobah | Father | Mundoe | A Bullocks Foot |
| Bigabilla | A Porcupine | Murrabidona | A good fishing place |
| Bundoowithidie | A Big Lily | Murgoo | A Night-Owl |
| Boroo | Very large | Murgoobah | Large Oak Scrub |
| Booboo | A lot of dead Leaves | Murragadon | Aborigines Camping Ground |
| Boonah | Black soil | Nulga Nulga | A Bullocks horn |
| Bibbalah | White box Forest | Oneumbulum | a race Course |
| Boona | Swampy Country | Tigara | A Wild bird |
| Buddagra | Where sour grass grows | Turrah | Deep Gullies |
| Boodildigera | Numerous Birds nests | Udindalli | A Tree Iguana |
| Curagee | Uncle | Uthala | A Thick Scrub |
| Curumga | A Wild Fruit | Wandabolla | A Coolabah tree |
| Cuddle Cuddle | Two Forked Sticks | Welbon | A receptacle made by Blacks to Carry honey in |
| Cullydulabah | A dry Creek | Woli | A Blacks Camp |
| Curradullabah | Grassless Country | Werrina | A good place |
| Delungra | A Water Weed | Wonmil | Old Yards |
| Doolee | A Ground Iguana | Wollon | Hard ground |
| Eurabba | A Boggy Creek | Wonga | A Wide Water Course |
| Garah | A Long Distance | Yooloobil | Where tall weeds grow |
| Gurana | Wild Flowers | ||
| Ginemoo | Sand Holes | ||
| Gunnee | A Round Stone | ||
| Gumboiga | A meeting place for Aborigines | ||
| Gil Gil | A Creek | ||
| Gethabah | A pine Scrub |
W. C. Casey Esqr J. Moran
Supt of police Constable
Tamworth Garah
27/9/99