Bective (; sometimes known as Bective Bridge or Ballina) is a small hamlet and townland in

County Meath County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the ...

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. Bective is situated on the left bank of the

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and on the Clady River which joins the former in the east of the townland, approximately 6 kilometres east of

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, on the

Athboy Athboy () is a small agricultural town located in County Meath. The town is located on the ''Yellow Ford River'', in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. Local Clubs are Clann Na nGael and Athboy Celtic. History In medieval time ...

Dunshaughlin Dunshaughlin ( or locally ) is a town in County Meath, Ireland. A commuter town for nearby Dublin, Dunshaughlin more than tripled in population (from 1,275 to 4,035 inhabitants) between the 1991 and 2016 censuses. History Foundation Dunshaugh ...

road. The local Gaelic football club, Bective GFC, have won 3 consecutive senior titles in a row. The club's u15 team plays in division 8, the lowest there is in the county. Bective is home to Bective Abbey, daughter abbey of the better-known Cistercian abbey at

Mellifont Mellifont Abbey ( ga, An Mhainistir Mhór, literally 'the Big Monastery'), was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland. In 1152, it hosted the Synod o ...

in County Louth. The village was also home to the writer

Mary Lavin Mary Josephine Lavin (10 June 1912 – 25 March 1996) wrote short stories and novels. An Irishwoman, she is now regarded as a pioneer in the field of women's writing. The well-known Irish writer Lord Dunsany mentored Lavin after her father app ...

, whose family moved there in 1925. Bective formed the setting for her first and most enduring collection of short stories,

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. The Skurlocke (or Sherlock) family were the local landowners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Towns and villages in County Meath Townlands of County Meath {{Meath-geo-stub

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