Bawnboy
An Bábhún Buí | |
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Village | |
 The N87 passes through Bawnboy | |
  Bawnboy Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°07′N 7°41′W / 54.117°N 7.683°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | Cavan |
Bawnboy (Irish: An Bábhún Buí, meaning 'the yellow bawn')[1] is a small village and townland in a valley at the foot of Slieve Rushen, between Ballyconnell and Swanlinbar, in County Cavan, Ireland.
A synod of the Catholic Provincial Council of Armagh was held in Owengallees, Baunbuidhe (Bawnboy), on 25 May 1669 where The Most Rev. Eugene MacSweeney, Lord Bishop of Kilmore, tried to depose Thomas Fitzsimons, the vicar general of the diocese.[2]
Bawnboy is part of the ancient parish of Templeport, birthplace of St Mogue. Its most famous building is a Victorian workhouse, built in 1853, long disused and now derelict. The local Garda station closed in 2013.[3]
- ^ "An Bábhún Buí/Bawnboy". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ Lynch, De Praesulibus Hiberniae, Vol. I, p. 256.
- ^ "Homepage of an Garda Síochána". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.