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Thu 03 Mar 2007Drawing a design from nature's blueprintThe surrounding trees - and the sun's path - helped to dictate the form of this house by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects, writes Emma CullinanWe may snigger but, says architect Siobhán Ní Éanaigh, Termonfeckin is the greatest village name in Ireland. It's an Anglicisation of the softer seeming Tearmann Feichín. The Gaelic sports clubs take the name St Fechins but, did I hear her right, laughing as she tells me that the football team are called the Feckers?