Navan

Navan is the county city of County Meath, Ireland. In 2016, it had a populace of 30,173, making it the 5th biggest town in Ireland. Navan is on the confluence of the River Boyne and Backwater. Navan is a Norman foundation: Hugh de Lacy, who turned into granted the Lordship of Meath in 1172, offered the Barony of Navan to one of his knights, Jocelyn de Angulo, who built a fortress there from which the town advanced. Navan is one of the global's few towns that has a palindromic call. Variants of Navan were in use considering Norman instances. It is thought to return from Irish a Uamhain, that means the cave so terrain, a variant of its greater common Irish names a Uaimh.

In 1922, when the Irish Free State became based, a Uaimh turned into adopted as the city's simplest legit name. However, it didn't benefit popularity in English and in 1971 the name became reverted to Navan in English. Tara Mine, Europe's biggest lead and zinc mine, is in Navan. The town traditionally turned into well-known for carpets Navan Carpets closed in 2003 and for a thriving furniture industry Beechmount Home Park. Both are now in decline, or have ceased, because of the move far from manufacture to inexpensive locations like Eastern Europe.