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Navan
Navan (; ) is the county town of County Meath in Ireland. In 2011, the town and its environs had a population of 28,559; making it the 5th largest town, and 10th largest urban settlement, in Ireland.〔 ==History and name== Navan is a Norman foundation: Hugh de Lacy, who was granted the Lordship of Meath in 1172, awarded the Barony of Navan to one of his knights, Jocelyn de Angulo, who built a fort there from which the town developed. ''Navan'' is one of the world's few towns that has a palindromic name. Variants of ''Navan'' had been in use since Norman times.〔(An Uaimh - its Origin ). Navan Historical Society.〕 It is thought to come ,〔Joyce, P W. (Origin of the name Navan ), in ''The Wonders of Ireland'' (1911).〕 a variant of its more common Irish name ''an Uaimh''. In 1922, when the Irish Free State was founded, ''an Uaimh'' was adopted as the town's only official name.〔 However, it failed to gain popularity in English and in 1971 the name was reverted to ''Navan'' in English.〔
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