Ashbourne Festival
Ashbourne may refer to: * Ashbourne, County Meath in Ireland **Ashbourne RFC, a rugby union club *Ashbourne, Derbyshire in England * Ashbourne, South Australia in Australia *Ashbourne, Victoria in Australia *Baron Ashbourne, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom See also * Ashbourne Cup *Ashbourne portrait, once thought to prove that Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford * Ashburn (other) __NOTOC__ Ashburn may refer to: Places Canada *Ashburn, Ontario United States *Ashburn, Georgia *Ashburn, Chicago, Illinois, a community area **Ashburn (Metra), a Metra station serving the area *Ashburn, Missouri *Ashburn, Virginia, an unincorpora ...

Ashbourne, County Meath
Ashbourne, historically called ''Killeglan'' or ''Kildeglan'' (), is a town in County Meath, Ireland. Located about 20 km north of Dublin and close to the M2 motorway, Ashbourne is a commuter town within Greater Dublin. In the 20 years between the 1996 and 2016 census, the town almost tripled in population from approximately 4,900 to 12,700 inhabitants. The town is passed by the Broad Meadow Water, which comes from Ratoath and Dunshaughlin. History Ancient settlement Archaeological excavations in the area around Ashbourne have revealed evidence of settlement back to neolithic times. In the townland of Rath, to the north of the town centre, a Bronze Age settlement was found during the construction of the M2 motorway. Excavations in the vicinity of the cemetery of Killegland revealed the extent of the early Christian settlement, with souterrains, house sites and a large enclosure centred around the remains of the church that is visible in the cemetery. This would link the ...
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