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On Meathside, the Castle of Drogheda or The Castle of Comfort was a tower house castle on the south side of the Bull Ring. It served as a prison, and as a sitting of the Irish parliament in 1494. [14] The earliest known town charter is that granted to Drogheda-in-Meath by Walter de Lacy in 1194. [15]
Dowth Hall is a Georgian country house and estate near Dowth in County Meath, Ireland. Built in 1760 for the Netterville family, the 420 acre estate occupies a large part of the archaeological site which makes up the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site landscape encompassing Dowth passage tomb.
2 Location. 3 History. 4 List of settlements. ... Drogheda (Irish: Droichead Átha) is a barony in County Louth, ... County Meath. History
The majority of the N51 Drogheda to Mullingar route is located within Meath, and crosses the county for 40 km (25 mi), passing through Slane, Navan and Athboy. [ 87 ] The N52 which stretches from Nenagh , where it joins the M7 , to Dundalk , where it joins the N1, crosses the county for 36 km (22 mi) and passes through Kells.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Kyran Durnin. Kyran, who was six when last seen alive, was reported missing from his home in Drogheda in County Louth in August. In October ...
Slane (Irish: Baile Shláine, meaning 'Town of Sláine mac Dela') [2] is a village in County Meath, in Ireland.The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 (Dublin to Monaghan road) and the N51 (Drogheda to Navan road).
Bellewstown (Irish: Baile an Bheileogaigh) [1] is a townland and village located 8 km south of Drogheda, on the Hill of Crockafotha in County Meath in Ireland.Bellewstown townland, which is in the electoral division of Ardcath and the civil parish of Duleek, [2] had a population of 499 as of the 2011 census. [3]
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.