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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 ]
The abbots of Dunshaughlin are recorded in the 9th century, beginning with Ruamnus (d. 801), and continuing to Scannal mac Fergil (murdered 886). Erenachs and coarbs (lay guardians of a parish church and headman of the family in hereditary occupation of church lands) of Dunshaughlin are recorded in AD 952, 1027 and 1040. The monastery at ...
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,634 townlands in County Meath, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656-58 by surveyors under William Petty.
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The famine-era workhouse and mass grave at Dunshaughlin is today a memorial to its victims. The famine shed light on the detrimental effects that Ireland's land laws were having on the economic and social well-being of the country, and the British government's lacklustre response to the crisis further strengthened the cause of Irish nationalists.
Knockmark (Irish: Cnoc Marc) is a civil parish located in south County Meath, Republic of Ireland, just west of the commuter town of Dunshaughlin. It comprises eleven townlands—Augherskea, Baronstown, Bedfanstown, Drumree, Glane Great, Glane Little, Kilcooly, Knockmark, Merrywell, Mooretown, and Warrenstown. Several of the townlands lie ...
The River Skane rises in west Dunshaughlin, and flows westerly.After flowing underneath the R125 regional road and the M3 motorway, the River Skane marks the boundary between the civil parish of Knockmark (west) and the civil parish of Dunshaughlin (east).