Coill an Chollaigh

Coill an Chollaigh translates from Irish as "the wood of the boar," with coill meaning wood or forest and chollaigh referring to the genitive form of collach, meaning boar. The modern English name Bailieborough derives from William Bailie, a Scottish undertaker (planter) granted 1,000 acres in the Barony of Clankee by King James I in 1610. By 1613, Bailie had erected his Manor of Bailieburrow, ...