placenamesQueensborough
Béilinn
Buildings beside the Boyne channel preserve Queensborough’s links with customs administration and the coastguard service.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Béilinn · Irish · main form
- Queensborough · English · main form
Place & story
Queensborough House
Queensborough House dates to about 1780 and formed part of the Beaulieu Estate. The Customs and Excise Board occupied it, giving the house a direct connection with shipping through the Boyne estuary. Its five-bay front rises above a basement, with a fanlit doorway approached by limestone steps and urns finishing the roof’s verge coping. [2]
Replacement coastguard housing
A terrace of six former coastguard houses records another phase of the settlement’s maritime history. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates the surveyed replacement house to 1943 and identifies it as replacing structures burned around 1920. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Queensborough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Queensborough House: 13902504 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Former coastguard house, Beaulieu, Queensborough: 13902503 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-03-20. How this page was prepared.