Named afterNavan is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is the closest town to where C.Y. O'Connor was born. In 1843 his father was elected to the Central Famine Relief Committee in Navan. The family stayed in Navan until the 1850s when CY, then aged about 7, and his youngest sister were sent to live with their Aunt Martha in Clonnee on the border fo Dublin and County Meath. CY moved to Waterford, a town in the south of Ireland when he was 11 years old. His father worked for the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company after losing his property in the famine. CY attended Waterford Acadamy and was apprenticed to the Chief Engineer of the Railway company. It was the skills gained in these early years that allowed him to make such a contribution to the Port of Fremantle.
