Ballyboughal
| Ballyboughal Irish: Baile Bachaille | |
| County Dublin | |
|---|---|
 Ballyboughal RC church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | O149535 |
| Location: | 53°31’9"N, 6°16’6"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | A41 |
| Dialling code: | 01 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Fingal |
Ballyboughal, also sometimes Ballyboghil, is a village in County Dublin, near the Naul.
The name of the village means 'the town of the staff', as it used to house a religious relic, the Bachal Isu, claimed to be a shepherd's crook used by Christ. In the twelfth century Strongbow moved it to Christ Church in Dublin.[1]
Ballyboughal is two and a half miles from Oldtown.
Churches
The Roman Catholic church here is the Church of the Assumption, built in 1836, and which is a chapel of ease for the parish of Naul. The mediæval church still stands in ruins in the Old Ballyboughal Burial Ground north of the centre of the town: this latter church is where the Bachal Isu was kept.[2] All the walls stand without the roof, and the building, which has some grave markers on the inside, is divided into a nave and chancel with doors on the north and south sides. The west gable has a triple bellcote, and the east gable has an arched window (without glass) dating from the fourteenth century.[3]
There was a monastery in Ballyboughal at some time before the arrival of the Anglo-Normans.[4]
About the village
The Ballyboughal (or Ballyboghil) River flows eastward through the centre of the village. It has its source at Tobergregan, south of Garristown, and its mouth at the Rogerstown Estuary.[5]
There is a private family-run airfield, Ballyboughal Airfield, ICAO code EIBB, near the village.[6]
Sport
- Gaelic Football: Ballyboughal GFC, founded in 1935 as Ballyboughal Rangers[7]
- Golf: Hollywood Lakes Golf Club[8]
References
- ↑ Myles V. Ronan (1943). "St. Patrick's Staff and Christ Church". Dublin Historical Record 5 (4 (Jun. - Aug., 1943)): 121–129.
- ↑ "Welcome to Ballyboughal". Fingal County Council. https://www.fingal.ie/visitor/locations/ballyboughal. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ↑ "Old Ballyboughal Church Co Dublin". Ireland in Ruins. http://irelandinruins.blogspot.com/2016/02/old-ballyboughal-church-co-dublin.html. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ↑ Gwynn, Aubrey; R. Neville Hadcock (1970). Mediæval Religious Houses: Ireland: With an Appendix to Early Sites. Harlow: Longmans. p. 374. OCLC 96266.
- ↑ Doyle, Joseph W (2013). Ten Dozen Waters: The Rivers and Streams of County Dublin. Rath Eanna Research. ISBN 978-0956636379.
- ↑ "IAP - AD1.3 Index to Aeroromes and Heliports, issue Aug-Sept 2018". http://iaip.iaa.ie/iaip/IAIP_Frame_CD.htm. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ↑ "Club History". Ballyboughal GFC. https://ballyboughalgfc.com/about-us/club-history/. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ↑ "Hollywood Lakes Golf Club". Albrecht Golf Verlag GmbH. https://www.1golf.eu/en/club/hollywood-lakes-golf-club/. Retrieved 27 March 2020.