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Drumbaragh
Drumbaragh or Drumbarrow or Boherboy (Irish: Droim Bearach, meaning 'shorn hill' or 'grazed or bare ridge') is a townland and village in County Meath, Ireland, 5.2 kilometres (3.2 miles) west of the town of Kells. The townland had a population of 180 in 2011. The Drumbaragh Emmets Gaelic football club (GFC) represents the area.
Drumbaragh is located at 53° 43' 31" N, 6° 56' 30" W. Drumbaragh townland has an area of approximately 345.37 hectares (3.5 km2). It is in the electoral division of Boherboy, civil parish of Kells and barony of Upper Kells.
The townland borders the following townlands: Balnagon Lower to the west, Balnagon Upper to the west, Balrath Demesne to the south, Boolies to the east, Calliaghstown to the east, Castlekeeran to the west, Castlepole to the north, Chapelbride to the east, Commons of Lloyd to the east, Destinrath to the east and Springville or Danllestown to the west.
On the Griffith's maps of the 1850s, the area is marked as Boherboy.[citation needed]
In Irish, Drumbaragh or “Drumbhcarra” translates to “shaven or shorn ridge” or “the ford of the high ridge.” There is a holy stone in a field, called St. Patrick's Stone. Tradition has it that the stone “is shadowed by an aged hawthorn,” and on the stone's top, “a large hollow is always filled with water by rain or dew. It has great healing powers.” The townland contains the historical village of Light Town (Leightown).
In numerous studies in response to the construction of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council, researchers in Drumbaragh in 2008 found "unenclosed, Late Neolithic structures of approximately 2900–2500 BC," and burnt stone activity in the area dating to the Bronze Age. This included several Fulacht Fiadh, or burnt mounds—the ancient charcoal and stone pits used to boil meat and heat water that are found in the thousands across the country. Researchers found isolated lintel graves here as well, possibly representing solitary graves of Christians buried away from ecclesiastical contexts in the early medieval period of the 7th century. There is a ritual site of a holy well here dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and ringforts that functioned as residences and/or farmsteads and broadly date from 500 to 1000 AD.
In 1649, Major Benjamin Woodward led troops from Chester, England, to Ireland, under Oliver Cromwell, after which he was granted a spoil in victory: about 450 acres and a castle in County Meath at what was called Drumbarrow, made official in 1668. The lands were confiscations from the Hill and Plunkett families. A plaque in St. Columba's Church at Kells commemorates Charles Woodward (1740–93), a minister in the Church of Ireland and rector of Ardee, who inherited the castle in 1761.
The castle was replaced around 1800 by Drumbaragh House, a four-square, three-story Georgian featuring a prominent chimneystack that remains today. It was erected for Henry Woodward, son of Benjamin and Esther, who married Sarah-Catherine Wade of Clonabreany. Their second son, Robert Woodward (1805–1864), succeeded in 1838 until his death when the property went to the Landed Estates Court.
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Drumbaragh
Drumbaragh or Drumbarrow or Boherboy (Irish: Droim Bearach, meaning 'shorn hill' or 'grazed or bare ridge') is a townland and village in County Meath, Ireland, 5.2 kilometres (3.2 miles) west of the town of Kells. The townland had a population of 180 in 2011. The Drumbaragh Emmets Gaelic football club (GFC) represents the area.
Drumbaragh is located at 53° 43' 31" N, 6° 56' 30" W. Drumbaragh townland has an area of approximately 345.37 hectares (3.5 km2). It is in the electoral division of Boherboy, civil parish of Kells and barony of Upper Kells.
The townland borders the following townlands: Balnagon Lower to the west, Balnagon Upper to the west, Balrath Demesne to the south, Boolies to the east, Calliaghstown to the east, Castlekeeran to the west, Castlepole to the north, Chapelbride to the east, Commons of Lloyd to the east, Destinrath to the east and Springville or Danllestown to the west.
On the Griffith's maps of the 1850s, the area is marked as Boherboy.[citation needed]
In Irish, Drumbaragh or “Drumbhcarra” translates to “shaven or shorn ridge” or “the ford of the high ridge.” There is a holy stone in a field, called St. Patrick's Stone. Tradition has it that the stone “is shadowed by an aged hawthorn,” and on the stone's top, “a large hollow is always filled with water by rain or dew. It has great healing powers.” The townland contains the historical village of Light Town (Leightown).
In numerous studies in response to the construction of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council, researchers in Drumbaragh in 2008 found "unenclosed, Late Neolithic structures of approximately 2900–2500 BC," and burnt stone activity in the area dating to the Bronze Age. This included several Fulacht Fiadh, or burnt mounds—the ancient charcoal and stone pits used to boil meat and heat water that are found in the thousands across the country. Researchers found isolated lintel graves here as well, possibly representing solitary graves of Christians buried away from ecclesiastical contexts in the early medieval period of the 7th century. There is a ritual site of a holy well here dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and ringforts that functioned as residences and/or farmsteads and broadly date from 500 to 1000 AD.
In 1649, Major Benjamin Woodward led troops from Chester, England, to Ireland, under Oliver Cromwell, after which he was granted a spoil in victory: about 450 acres and a castle in County Meath at what was called Drumbarrow, made official in 1668. The lands were confiscations from the Hill and Plunkett families. A plaque in St. Columba's Church at Kells commemorates Charles Woodward (1740–93), a minister in the Church of Ireland and rector of Ardee, who inherited the castle in 1761.
The castle was replaced around 1800 by Drumbaragh House, a four-square, three-story Georgian featuring a prominent chimneystack that remains today. It was erected for Henry Woodward, son of Benjamin and Esther, who married Sarah-Catherine Wade of Clonabreany. Their second son, Robert Woodward (1805–1864), succeeded in 1838 until his death when the property went to the Landed Estates Court.