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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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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.
Some time after 1196, the son of Hugh de Lacy, named Walter, granted "the whole land of Rathtowth" to his younger brother, Hugh. Hence we have now the sub-division of the county Meath named the Barony of Ratoath and it has the distinction of being perhaps the first instance that the term, barony, was used in Ireland for a division of a county.
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area include ringfort sites in the surrounding townlands of Kildangan and Harristown. [8] There is a ruined medieval tower house in the village, which was historically associated with the Gifford family. [9] [10] The Church of Ireland church in the village (built c. 1823) is now largely in ruin. [11]
Quoted from The Anglo Celt, a newspaper in the area at the time of the camp. [9] On 12 December 1914 ‘The long expected German prisoners arrived this week in Oldcastle and took up quarters in the disused workhouse.’ This was a headline from the time, The Meath Chronicle [10] on the day the arrival.
The Irish state has officially approved the following list of national monuments in County Meath. In the Republic of Ireland , a structure or site may be deemed to be a " national monument ", and therefore worthy of state protection, if it is of national importance.