placenamesBoharboy
An Bóthar Buí
A Muchgrange settlement whose church and school serve neighbouring communities on the Cooley peninsula.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Bóthar Buí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Boharboy · English · main form
Place & story
The church’s dated tower
The Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea at Muchgrange is recorded by the National Inventory under Boharboy, with St Mary’s as its former name. A plaque on its tower gives the date 1865. The survey attributes the design to John Murray, possibly working with J.J. McCarthy. Local granite contrasts with limestone dressings, and a pointed spire rises above the square tower. Inside, the nave arcades rest on cylindrical limestone columns; pink granite supports the western choir gallery. Renovations in 2000 included a glazed entrance enclosure. [2]
A school joining neighbouring communities
Boher National School opened at its present site in 1956. Greenore National School closed in 1967 and joined it, bringing children from the port village into the same institution as families in the surrounding countryside. The school’s own history describes a catchment extending through Muchgrange, Millgrange, Ballagan, Whitestown and other neighbouring townlands. That amalgamation is a useful part of the local story: the school serves a broader district than the small settlement around the church. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Louth
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Civil parish
- Carlingford
- Within
- Muchgrange
- Coordinates
- 54.01220, -6.13871
- Logainm ID
- 1410887 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Boharboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of the Star of the Sea, Muchgrange, Boharboy: record 13900905 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- History of The Boher National School · Boher National School
- Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Boharboy illustration: based on a Boher National School - Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Boher by Eric Jones. 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 2026-05-27. How this page was prepared.