Ballyboughal

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Ballyboughal

Elevation35 m

Coordinates53.52°, -6.27°

Demographic figures from Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

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Overview

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.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Ed Byrne

Irish comedian

Derek Landy

author, screenwriter

Martin Finnegan

Irish motorcycle racer (1979–2008)

Francis Taylor

Mayor of Dublin and Catholic martyr

James Reilly

Irish Fine Gael politician

George Anne Bellamy

English actress

P

Pierre Mitchell

Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth

Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman

Brendan Ryan

Irish Labour Party politician

Charles Cobbe

Irish Anglican bishop

Eddie Flynn

Irish footballer (1919–2002)

J

Joseph Finnegan

Irish judge

L

Lainey Keogh

Irish fashion designer

M

Maurice Swan

Irish footballer

P

Patrick Connolly

Irish Attorney General

David McGuinness

Irish politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Dublin

• Lusk
  4.2 mi away · pop. 8,806
• Donabate
  5.4 mi away · pop. 9,669
• Balrothery
  5.7 mi away
• Portraine
  6.6 mi away
• Malahide
  6.7 mi away · pop. 18,608
• Balscaddan
  6.9 mi away
• Balbriggan
  7 mi away · pop. 24,322
• Castleknock
  10.9 mi away
• Ongar
  11.2 mi away
• Clondalkin
  14.7 mi away · pop. 45,165
• Dundrum
  16 mi away
• Ballyboden
  16.4 mi away · pop. 5,193

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Ballyboughal

Mud Island

2002

Dublin burial grounds & graveyards

Vivien Igoe · 2001

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers