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Ballyboughal
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Ballyboughal or Ballyboghil () is a village and district in central Fingal in County Dublin, near the Naul. The name means "the town of the staff", and a major relic, the Bachal Isu, was protected in this area until Strongbow moved it to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. It is 4.4 km from Oldtown.
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It is catalogued under topics including Towns and villages in Fingal, Untranslated Irish place names and Use Hiberno-English from November 2021.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ballyboughal
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 352
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Fingal
- Elevation
- 35
- Image
- Church at Ballyboughal, Co. Dublin - geograph.org.uk - 1871250.jpg
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- Irish Grid Reference
- O149535
- historic county
- County Dublin
- Commons category
- Ballyboughal
- native label
- Baile Bachaille
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Ballyboughal or Ballyboghil () is a village and district in central Fingal in County Dublin, near the Naul. The name means "the town of the staff", and a major relic, the Bachal Isu, was protected in this area until Strongbow moved it to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. It is 4.4 km from Oldtown.
There was a monastery in Ballyboughal sometime before the arrival of the Anglo-Normans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballyboughal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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