Béal Átha na Muice

Béal Átha na Muice, meaning 'mouth of the ford of the pig,' is a planned town in County Mayo established by the Anglo-Irish Brabazon family in the late eighteenth century. The Brabazons, who had lost Galway estates during the Williamite War, received compensation lands in Mayo and began a deliberate colonisation scheme from 1769 onwards, granting 999-year leases to approximately forty settlers ...