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6 unusual facts about Ashbourne


Ashbourne, County Meath

County Meath's second Marriott hotel opened in April 2007 as the 148-room Ashbourne Marriott.

Baltray

Bus Éireann route 189 serves Baltray several times a day (but not Sundays) linking it to Drogheda, Duleek, Ashbourne, Termonfeckin and Clogherhead.

Carry Somers

In 2010 Somers started working with local schools and St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne to raise money to buy glasses for Pachacuti's producers.

Duleek

Route 189 and 189A provide several daily journeys to/from Drogheda and Ashbourne with route 189 journeys continuing to Clogherhead.

The 103 provides several daily journeys to/from Dublin via Ashbourne and Finglas.

Peter Dempsey

Peter Samuel Dempsey (born 31 March 1986) is an Irish racing driver from Ashbourne, County Meath.


Ashbourne Cup

In 1915 she persuaded her friend, Irish language activist William Gibson, (Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde (1868–1942), second Lord Ashbourne, to donate a trophy for the camogie intervarsity competition.

Ashbourne Hall

The Cockayne family's Ashbourne Hall was built during the reign of Henry III in the 13th Century.

Boothby baronets

The Boothbys left Broadlow Ash when the first Baronet purchased Ashbourne Hall from Sir Aston Cockayne in about 1671.

Bus Éireann

The National Development Plan included a large expansion in commuter services, especially in the greater Dublin area, and so the company greatly increased services on routes such as Dublin/Drogheda/Dundalk, Dublin/Ashbourne, Dublin/Ratoath, Dublin/Dunshaughlin/Navan/Kells/Cavan.

Catherine Pegge

Catherine was the daughter of Thomas Pegge of Yeldersley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and wife Catherine Kniveton, daughter of Sir Gilbert Kniveton, Baronet, and wife.

Charles Blakiston

The resulting village became known as Ashbourne (after Blakiston's birthplace) and is these days part of Woolston.

Eugene Maxwell Frank

He was survived by his daughters and sons-in-law Wilmagene and Lewis Noonan of Leawood, Kansas and Susan and Mark Parsons of Ashbourne, Derbyshire in the U.K.; by a daughter, Gretchen Frank Beal of Knoxville, Tennessee, and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas E. Frank and Gail O'Day of Atlanta.

Hooe, East Sussex

The River Ashbourne flows into the Haven, down which iron products, particularly cannon, used to be shipped from the Wealden iron works at Ashburnham.

Kentstown

Bus Éireann route 107 (Navan-Ashbourne-Finglas-Dublin-UCD) provides a limited service to/from the village Mondays to Saturdays inclusive.

Melrose Park, Pennsylvania

It is bordered to the south by Cheltenham Avenue, to the west by Old York Road, to the east by New Second Street and to the north by Ashbourne Road.

Peter Ashbourne

Born in Kingston, Ashbourne attended the Jamaica School of Music and the University of the West Indies before graduating with a bachelor's degree in Composition and Arranging from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet

Ashbourne Hall was leased in 1814 (parish records show that in 1817 Sir Richard Arkwright's grandson, also Richard, was living there) and he settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824.

Street sports

In Ashbourne, Jedburgh and Workington for example a traditional contest of street football between two factions of the respective towns was originally played on Shrove Tuesday.

Tom Dreaper

Tom was born into a farming family in Donaghmore near Ashbourne on the County Meath-County Dublin border, and educated at St. Andrew's College, Dublin.


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