placenamesBective
Beigthigh
Limestone quarrying, farming and schools appear in an 1837 account of the parish beside the Boyne.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Beigthigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Bective · English · main form
Place & story
Farming and limestone
Samuel Lewis described Bective as a parish of 3,726 statute acres, chiefly cultivated land, in 1837. Limestone was quarried both for construction and for burning into lime to improve the soil. His account records no bog or waste ground, presenting a farming landscape closely connected with its local stone resources. [2]
Worship and schooling
The parish then had no Church of Ireland church, and its Protestant inhabitants attended services in Kilmessan or Trim. Lewis recorded a Catholic chapel at Robinstown, with a school nearby for which a new classroom was planned. A separate hedge school taught twenty-one boys and nineteen girls. These details describe the parish’s nineteenth-century institutions before later church building. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.59745, -6.71684
- Mapped area
- 13.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1937 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bective. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bective, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-12. How this page was prepared.