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The Royal Meath Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in County Meath raised in 1793. It later became a battalion of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) . It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Easter Rising in 1916, and trained hundreds of reinforcements during World War I .
An ogham stone found south of Slane suggests they controlled the Brega area in County Meath together with Carbury Hill and the plains of Kildare. During the early 6th century, they were expelled across the Wicklow Mountains. The Uí Failge and Uí Bairrche belonged to the Laigin but may also be associated with the Iverni.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
The Ward family, whose forebears were landowners of the hill and after whom the hill was named, are living in County Meath today. Recent archaeological work has been done on the site, confirming that it was used as a ritual site for many years.
The Netterville family were long-established landowners in County Meath, and are recorded in Ireland from before 1280. His father died in 1560. As he was the son and grandson of judges, and a younger son with his livelihood to earn, it was an obvious career choice for Richard to practice at the Irish Bar .
While some members of the family remained in Sligo as tenants on their former lands, others migrated to Spain where they achieved high offices in service to the Spanish Crown. The O'Higgins of Ballynary migrated to Summerhill, County Meath where they lived at Clondoogan and Agher and worked for the Langford family of Summerhill House. [citation ...
The Lordship of Meath was an extensive seigneurial liberty in medieval Ireland that was awarded to Hugh de Lacy by King Henry II of England by the service of fifty knights and with almost royal authority. The Lordship was roughly co-extensive with the medieval kingdom of Meath.
Marquess of Headfort is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.It was created in 1800 for Thomas Taylour, 2nd Earl of Bective. [mq 1]The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Bective (1766), Viscount Headfort (1762), Baron Headfort, of Headfort in the County of Meath (1760), and Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath (1831), all but the last in the Peerage of Ireland.