 The plank-built rowing boat found on the west coast of Connacht is also called a currach or "curach adhmaid" ("wooden currach"), and is built in a style very similar to its canvas-covered relative.Folk etymology has it that "naomhóg" means "little holy one", "little female saint", from "naomh" () "saint, holy" and the feminine diminutive suffix -óg).Another explanation is that it comes from the Latin "navis", and it has also been suggested that it derives from the Irish "nae", a boat.