placenamesMilltownpass
Bealach Bhaile an Mhuilinn
A milk churn buried by local Scouts brought a generation back together twenty-five years later.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bealach Bhaile an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Milltownpass · English · main form
Place & story
Messages to the future
On New Year’s Day 2000, members of the 9th Westmeath Milltownpass Scout Group buried a time capsule in the village church grounds. When former members recovered it in January 2025, the milk churn still protected letters to their future selves, shopping receipts, toys, photographs and other keepsakes. They brought it to the community centre to examine the contents. [2]
A scouting reunion
Founding leaders and former members gathered for the opening. Loreto Flanagan received Scouting Ireland’s Group Leader Emeritus Award during the afternoon. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Fartullagh
- Civil parish
- Pass of Kilbride
- Coordinates
- 53.44371, -7.24744 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 137365 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Milltownpass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Scouts dig up memories 25 years on (12 January 2025) · Westmeath Examiner
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.