Английская Википедия:Bective, County Meath

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Irish English Шаблон:Infobox settlement Bective (Шаблон:Irish place name;[1] sometimes known as Bective Bridge or Ballina)[2] is a small hamlet and townland in County Meath, Ireland. Bective is situated on the left bank of the River Boyne and on the Clady River which joins the former in the east of the townland, approximately 6 kilometres east of Trim, on the Athboy to Dunshaughlin road.

Sport

The local Gaelic football club, Bective GFC,[3] have won 3 consecutive senior titles in a row.Шаблон:Citation needed The club's U15 team plays in division 8, the lowest there is in the county.Шаблон:Citation needed

Abbey

Bective is home to Bective Abbey, daughter abbey of the better-known Cistercian abbey at Mellifont in County Louth.[4]

Notable people

The village was also home to the writer Mary Lavin, whose family moved there in 1925. Bective formed the setting for her first and most enduring collection of short stories, Tales from Bective Bridge.[5] The Skurlocke (or Sherlock) family were the local landowners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

See also

References

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Bective church, now an artist's studio

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