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Slane Castle (Irish: Cáisleán Bhaile Shláine) is located in the village of Slane, within the Boyne Valley of County Meath, Ireland. The castle has been the family seat of the Conyngham family since it was built in the late 18th century, on land first purchased in 1703 by Brig.-Gen. Henry Conyngham .
Slane (Irish: Baile Shláine, meaning 'Town of Sláine mac Dela') [2] is a village in County Meath, in Ireland.The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 (Dublin to Monaghan road) and the N51 (Drogheda to Navan road).
The Slane Festival (often referred to as Slane) is a recurring concert held most years since 1981 on the grounds of Slane Castle on the outskirts of Slane in County Meath, Ireland. The castle is owned by The 8th Marquess Conyngham , who was known by the courtesy title the Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009.
Conyngham coat of arms. Henry Vivien Pierpont Conyngham, 8th Marquess Conyngham (born 25 May 1951), styled as Viscount Slane until 1974 and as Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009 and predominantly known as Lord Mount Charles, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who is best known for the rock concerts that he organises at his home Slane Castle, and for his column in the Irish Daily Mirror under ...
Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.It was created in 1816 for Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham.He was the great-nephew of another Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham, a member of a family of Scottish descent which had settled during the Plantation of Ulster in County Donegal in Ireland in the early 17th century.
Slane Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland. Fleming was a descendant of Archembald le Fleming of Bratton Fleming, Devon, who was alive in 1087. Archembald's grandson, Archembald fitz Stephen le Fleming, came to Ireland with King Henry II of England in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the Kingdom of Mide. He was a great-great ...
Arms of Fleming, Baron Slane: Vair, a chief chequy or and gules, as shown on the Powell Roll of Arms (c. 1350), Bodleian Library, Oxford. [citation needed]. Also in Lysons' Magna Britannia. [1] Slane Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland. Baron Slane was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1370 for the Fleming family but forfeited in 1691.
Despite his family's history of Catholicism, the Baron was also reluctantly involved in the Elizabethan era religious persecution of the strictly illegal and underground Catholic Church in Ireland. While sheltering at Slane Castle, Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, who would become one of the most celebrated of the 24 formally recognized Irish ...