Nobber
Irish: An Obair | |
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Village | |
.jpg) Houses on the R162 at Nobber | |
  Nobber Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°49′16″N 6°44′48″W / 53.821128°N 6.746678°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Elevation | 56 m (184 ft) |
| Population | 344 |
| Irish Grid Reference | N812880 |
Nobber (Irish: an Obair, "the work")[2] is a village in north County Meath, Ireland. It is on the Navan–Kingscourt road (R162), about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Navan. This places the village about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the M50 motorway, the orbital motorway of Dublin. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[3]
The town of Kells is to the west and the town of Ardee to the east and the town of Kingscourt is to the north. Villages that border the parish are Kilmainhamwood, Moynalty and Kilbeg to the west, Castletown-Kilpatrick to the south and Drumconrath and Lobinstown to the east.
The village of Nobber is built on the River Dee, the course of which was diverted around the village in the 19th century. A feature of the local geography is how the village is set within rolling hills called drumlins formed in the last glacial period.
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Nobber". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ^ Joyce, P. W. (1869). Irish Names of Places. Vol. 1. Dublin: Phoenix Publishing Co. p. 24.
- ^ "An Obair/Nobber". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 April 2024.