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Dunshaughlin Church of Ireland Dunshaughlin Church of Ireland interior Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill was an ancestor from which the principal family of Brega , Ó Maoilsheachlainn, is descended. Dunshaughlin (or more specifically, the townland of Lagore ) is famous for an ancient crannóg or settlement from the 7th century where a number of ...
Dunsany Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún Samhnaí), Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is a modernised Anglo-Norman castle, [1] started c. 1180 / 1181 by Hugh de Lacy, who also commissioned the original Killeen Castle, nearby, and the famous Trim Castle. It is one of Ireland's oldest homes in continuous occupation, possibly the longest occupied by a ...
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Castles in County Meath, Ireland ... This page was last edited on 3 January 2019, ...
Martin Kerrigan was later abducted and killed by Una Lynskey's brothers Sean and James Lynskey and her cousin John Gaughan, nine days after Una Lynskey's body was discovered. [7] Afterwards, Martin Kerrigan's body was found in Rathfarnham, Dublin , which is close to the site where Una Lynskey was found.
Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century structure, burnt out in 1981.
A charter of 1439, a few years before his father's death, refers to the younger Sir Christopher as lord of the manor of Dunsany (Dns. de Dunsany). He is referred to by William Camden, in the following century, as being the first Baron of Dunsany, that is to say, a hereditary member of the Irish House of Lords. What year he became a peer is ...
Death of Tadg mac Cathail, King of Connacht. 926 or 941. Brian Boru (d.1014), future High King of Ireland is thought to have been born in 926 or in 941. 927. Death of Sigtrygg Caech (or Sihtric), a Norse-Gael King of Dublin who later reigned as king of York. His epithet means the 'Squinty'. He belonged to the Uí Ímair kindred. 928
The property is named after the townland of Dowth (Irish: Dubhadh - darkness) where the house and estate are located.[2] [3]The Netterville family had lived in the area of Dowth for hundreds of years before the construction of the current house with the Dowth estate supposedly originally being granted to them by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath. [4]