Bailieborough

Bailieborough ( Irish: Coill an Chollaigh; German: " Wild Boar Forest "), even Bailieboro, is a town in County Cavan in the north-eastern central inland of the Republic of Ireland.

The place

The Irish name of the place Coill an Chollaigh goes back to the time before the Plantation of Ulster, with the beginning at the beginning of the 17th century, the history of the present town of Bailieborough takes its beginning. William Bailie, a Scottish settler, received under the Plantation in 1610, an area of 4 square kilometers, on which he built the (1918 largely destroyed in a fire ) Bailieborough Castle, near the present town of Bailieborough and a number of Scottish families had to settle here. Taking Referring thereto, Bailieborough celebrates in 2010 its 400th anniversary, but a significant development of the city only began in the 19th century.

Traffic and Demographics

Bailieborough is a rural center city in which to meet with the R165, R178 and R191 of the three regional roads; The city is located 12 km northeast of the national road N3 at Virginia.

The population of Bailieborough was determined during Census 2011, 3,846 persons.

Personalities

• John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar († 1876 in Bailieborough ), 1831-1855 for the Co. Cavan in the House of Commons
• Edward Clarke (1850-1905), Canadian journalist and politician
• Cillian Sheridan ( * 1989), Irish football player