Boyerstown

Boyerstown (Irish place name|Baile Baighe) is a small village, townland, and Roman Catholic parish in County Meath, Ireland. It is located off the N51 National secondary road some 5 km westsouthwest of Navan.

The village, which consists of one small street, contains a 19th-century church, St Cuthbert's, and a national (primary) school while the townland extends for a number of miles around it.

The parish of Boyerstown, along with another parish called Cortown, historically has been linked to the neighbouring parish of Bohermeen, with the parish priest and curate serving all three parishes.

One of its most famous people is the controversial Catholic priest and polemicist Father David O'Hanlon, whose bitter attack on the then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, whom he called "cheap" and claimed had insulted the Pope by wearing a dark green dress in the Vatican, made international headlines.

The controversial new M3 motorway is now (2007) under construction through the townland of Boyerstown.

ee also

* Ardbraccan
* Ardbraccan House
* Bohermeen
* Durhamstown Castle
* Navan

External links

* [http://www.m3motorway.ie/Archaeology/Section3/Boyerstown3/ Archaeological discoveries while building the N3 in Boyerstown]
* [http://www.m3motorway.ie/Archaeology/Section3/Boyerstown1/ More archaeological discoveries while planning the road]
* [http://www.askaboutireland.ie/show_narrative_page.do?page_id=226 Architecture link showing a historic thatched house in Boyerstown]