placenamesRobinstown
Baile Roibín
Robinstown’s old school and later church record changing provision for a village in Balbradagh townland.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Roibín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Robinstown · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling and the Bective estate
Richard Bolton provided a site for a national school at Robinstown in 1840 and became its patron. The local historical society records that his father had supplied land for a chapel and school in 1800. Patronage later became contentious: a dispute with the local priest concerned school visits and the appointment of teachers. In 1861 the school became non-vested, ending Bolton’s influence over it. [2]
The old school at the crossroads
Robinstown Old School dates to around 1841. Its seven-bay frontage and central gabled porch survive at the crossroads. Scoil Mhuire gives its own foundation year as 1946. [3] [4]
Rebuilding the Church of the Assumption
The Irish Architectural Archive identifies James Rupert Edward Boyd Barrett as the architect responsible for rebuilding and extending Robinstown’s Church of the Assumption. Its entry cites a report in the Irish Builder of 2 February 1963, records a cost of £20,000 and names C. Murray of Navan as the main contractor. This contemporary reference gives the church project a firmer historical setting than the broad mid twentieth-century date in the protected-structure list. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Upper
- Civil parish
- Bective
- Coordinates
- 53.60110, -6.73098 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 133209 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Robinstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bective: Robinstown school and Bolton patronage · Navan and District Historical Society
- Record of Protected Structures: Robinstown Old School and Church · Meath County Council
- About Scoil Mhuire, Robinstown National School · Scoil Mhuire, Robinstown National School
- Robinstown, Church of the Assumption: work 960 · Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects
- Church of the Assumption, Robinstown, County Meath illustration: based on a Photograph of Assumption, Robinstown by JP. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-09-17. How this page was prepared.