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Dunshaughlin (Irish: Dún Seachlainn, meaning 'the fort of Seachlainn' [2] or locally Irish: Domhnach Seachnaill, meaning 'St Seachnall's Church') [3] is a town in County Meath, Ireland. A commuter town for nearby Dublin, [4] Dunshaughlin more than tripled in population (from 2,139 to 6,644 inhabitants) between the 1996 and 2022 censuses. [5]
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 ...
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Archaeological studies indicate that a church stood on the site in the 7th–9th centuries. No trace of it remains. A second phase of activity saw a ringwork constructed on the site, and a church at Killeen is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302–06) of Pope Nicholas IV.
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 ...
Killeen Castle before 2000s restoration. 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.
The family sold the castle in the 1950s, when it was acquired by the Franciscan Order of Friars who then established a boarding school for boys in the grounds, known as Gormanston College. [6] Since 2015, the school has been managed by Meath VEC under Franciscan trusteeship and is now largely a day school although there are still 70 boarders.
Castlejordan (Irish: Caisleán Shiurdáin) [1] is a village and townland in County Meath, Ireland.It is located in the south of the county, close to the border with County Offaly, to the south of Kinnegad.