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Navan (/ ˈ n æ v ən / NAV-ən; Irish: An Uaimh [ənˠ ˈuəvʲ], meaning "the Cave") [2] is the county town and largest town of County Meath, Ireland. [3] It is at the confluence of the River Boyne and Blackwater , around 50 km northwest of Dublin .
Navan Fort, sometimes called Navan Rath, is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Navan. It is on a low hill about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) west of Armagh (at grid ref. area H847 452). [ 5 ] The site consists of a circular enclosure 250 metres (820 feet) in diameter, marked by a large bank and ditch encircling the hill.
The royal site of the kings of Ulster, Eamhain Mhacha, now known as Navan Fort. The royal sites of Ireland were the seats of the Gaelic kings of Ireland.Medieval sources describe them as the ceremonial capitals of various Irish kingdoms, where kingly inaugurations, assemblies and athletic games were held.
Meath is the 14th-largest of Ireland's 32 counties by area, and the eighth-largest in terms of population. [4] It is the second-largest of Leinster's 12 counties in size, and the third-largest in terms of population.
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Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,634 townlands in County Meath, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
The section from Navan to Trim was never built, [5] and the Boyne Navigation remains disconnected from other inland waterways in Ireland. [2] The Boyne Navigation Company began work on the lower section of the navigation from the sea lock at Oldbridge to Slane in 1748 [6] and was completed in the 1760s. The upper section from Slane to Navan was ...
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.