Athboy
Baile Átha Buí | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 The N51 passes through Athboy | |
  Athboy Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°37′00″N 6°55′00″W / 53.616667°N 6.916667°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Elevation | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Population (2022) | 2,596 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | N800567 |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1821 | 1,569 | — |
| 1831 | 1,959 | +24.9% |
| 1841 | 1,826 | −6.8% |
| 1851 | 1,204 | −34.1% |
| 1861 | 982 | −18.4% |
| 1871 | 861 | −12.3% |
| 1881 | 748 | −13.1% |
| 1891 | 633 | −15.4% |
| 1901 | 610 | −3.6% |
| 1911 | 575 | −5.7% |
| 1926 | 510 | −11.3% |
| 1936 | 520 | +2.0% |
| 1946 | 402 | −22.7% |
| 1951 | 418 | +4.0% |
| 1956 | 717 | +71.5% |
| 1961 | 680 | −5.2% |
| 1966 | 678 | −0.3% |
| 1971 | 705 | +4.0% |
| 1981 | 909 | +28.9% |
| 1986 | 1,055 | +16.1% |
| 1991 | 1,083 | +2.7% |
| 1996 | 1,172 | +8.2% |
| 2002 | 1,538 | +31.2% |
| 2006 | 2,213 | +43.9% |
| 2011 | 2,397 | +8.3% |
| 2016 | 2,445 | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 2,596 | +6.2% |
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Athboy (Irish: Baile Átha Buí, meaning 'town of the yellow ford')[8] is a small agricultural town located in County Meath. The town is located on the Yellow Ford River, in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. It is around 15 km west of Navan and 50 km north-west of Dublin. The town is in a civil parish of the same name.[8]
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- ^ a b "Baile Átha Buí/Athboy". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 15 October 2021.