In Roman mythology, Pales was the goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock. Originally, she was either male or female. The name may be related to phallus meaning "penis."
Her festival was called the Parilia; it was celebrated April 21. Cattle were driven through bonfires on this day.
The Pale or the EnglishPale comprised a region in a radius of 20 miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against incursion from Gaels.
As well as the Pale in Ireland, the term was applied to various other English colonial settlements, and the Pale of Settlement, the area in the west of Imperial Russia where Jews were permitted to reside.
The Pale boundary essentially consisted of a fortified ditch and rampart built around parts of the medieval counties of Louth, Meath, Dublin and Kildare, actually leaving half of Meath and Kildare on the other side.
The Pale or the EnglishPale comprised a region in a radius of 20 miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against incursion from GaelicIreland.
In heraldry, a pale is a vertical ordinary and per pale a vertical division of the field.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pale (two syllables) is a small town on the outskirts of Sarajevo that is the official capital of the Republika Srpska, although in practice this distinction belongs to the city of Banja Luka
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