Bailieborough
Bailieborough (also Bailieboro , Irish : Coill an Chollaigh; German: "Wild Boar Forest") is a town in County Cavan in the north-east central interior of the Republic of Ireland .
The place
The Irish name of the place Coill an Chollaigh goes back to the time before the Plantation of Ulster , with whose beginning at the beginning of the 17th century also the history of the today's city of Bailieborough begins. William Bailie, a Scottish settler, was given an area of 4 km² under the plantation in 1610, on which he (largely destroyed in a fire in 1918) Bailieborough Castle was built near the present-day town of Bailieborough and a number of Scottish families settled here. With reference to this, Bailieborough celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2010, although significant development of the city only began in the 19th century.
Traffic and demographics
Bailieborough is a rural mid-point town where three regional roads meet with the R165, R178 and R191; the city is 12 km northeast of the N3 state road near Virginia .
The population of Bailieborough was determined by the 2016 Census to be 2,683.
Personalities
- John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1807–1876), from 1831 to 1855 for the Co. Cavan in the House of Commons
- Edward Clarke (1850–1905), Canadian journalist and politician
- Cillian Sheridan (* 1989), Irish football player
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
- ↑ Bailieborough (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on July 19, 2017
Coordinates: 53 ° 54'56 " N , 6 ° 58'16" W.