The word "culchie" may instead be derived from the Irish word ', 'woods, forests'. It was used by townspeople, mainly in the western counties of Mayo and Galway, as a condescending or pejorative reference to people from rural areas. In the mid-1960s it was adopted as a common term in Dublin, as a counter to the country people's use of the word "jackeen" for a Dublin person. The "culchie" spelling is common in the English-language media, based on their understanding of phonetics and the word's derivation. It is also sometime spelled with a "t" before the "ch", as "cultchie", indicative of its more likely derivation from '.