Drumbaragh

Drumbaragh or Drumbarrow or Boherboy (Irish: Droim Bearach, meaning 'shorn hill' or 'grazed or bare ridge[1]') is a townland and village in County Meath, Ireland, 5.2 kilometres (3.2 miles) west of the town of Kells.

[8][9] In numerous studies in response to the construction of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council, researchers in Drumbaragh in 2008 found "unenclosed, Late Neolithic structures of approximately 2900–2500 BC," and burnt stone activity in the area dating to the Bronze Age.

This included several Fulacht Fiadh, or burnt mounds—the ancient charcoal and stone pits used to boil meat and heat water that are found in the thousands across the country.

[11] In 1649, Major Benjamin Woodward led troops from Chester, England, to Ireland, under Oliver Cromwell, after which he was granted a spoil in victory: about 450 acres and a castle in County Meath at what was called Drumbarrow, made official in 1668.

The castle was replaced around 1800 by Drumbaragh House, a four-square, three-story Georgian featuring a prominent chimneystack that remains today.

"[14] More recently, it is categorized as a protected structure by the Meath County Council, described as "three storey over basement house built about 1800, attributed to designs by Francis Johnston, remodelled in late 1860s by William Caldbeck, extended to the rear about 1900.

"[16] With the stock of potatoes diminishing weekly and increasing food prices in the early years of the Great Hunger, in June 1846, about 50 men were engaged in "road levelling at Drumbarragh;" they were among the 500 employed in the Kells baronies at that time.

[21][22] Significant evictions of tenantry on the Nicholson estate at Balrath Bury (which included part of Drumbaragh) occurred in 1862, 1871 and 1872.

John Sweetman was "one of the first Irish men to speak out against conscription in 1915," which led to his arrest at Drumbaragh following the Easter Rising.

An hour later, Matt Tevlin, who was in charge of the attack, took off his coat while in a field nearby and pretended to be counting cattle.