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  Meath
On the rich grasslands of County Meath, Irish farmers raise beef cattle and large dairy herds that supply milk to the city of Dublin.
This prehistoric stone circle in County Meath, once a centre of worship and possibly a burial ground, now shelters a few sheep in the early mists of an Irish morning.
County of the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Leinster; county town Navan; area 2,340 sq km/ 903 sq mi; population (2002 est) 134,000.
www.x-stream.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004716.html   (257 words)

  
 County Meath Information Meath Tourist Information Meath Attractions Meath Tara Hill Book of Kells Meath Heritage Towns
The mysterious imagination and sharp-witted humour of medieval monks still resonate in Meath’s towns, where monastic ruins tell the story of scholarly refuge in the face of Viking raids.
Meath is also renowned for its many golf courses as well as being the home of the Mulligan - a Mulligan is the one free stroke allowed each player per nine holes of play and to be played at his or her discretion.
There is a panoramic view of the rich lands of Meath and the lakelands of Cavan among the 14 counties that can be seen from Carnbane East.
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 County Meath Housing Strategy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The East Meath Sub-Region is located to the east of County Meath, on the coast between the
County Meath is linked with Dublin by road, via the Nl, N2 and N3 corridors.
Capacity in Meath to accommodate future housing growth is dependent on a range of factors.
www.meath.ie /Planning/COUNTY_MEATH_STRATEGY_PLAN/SECTION2.HTM   (2543 words)

  
 RTE News - Children killed in Meath house fire named
The two sisters who died in a fire at their home in Oldcastle, County Meath, have been named.
The alarm was raised at a house in Ballinvalley, Oldcastle, County Meath, after midnight.
It is understood that frantic efforts were made by parents and neighbours to try and rescue the two girls but they were beaten back by the flames and smoke.
www.rte.ie /news/2001/0418/fire.html   (213 words)

  
 Braintree boy dies in Ireland accident - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Mass. - News
The Farrell family was relaxing Tuesday evening in a relative's garden in Oldcastle, a village north of Dublin, when the car rolled free and hit Sean Farrell while he was riding a tricycle, police officials in Ireland said yesterday.
Gildea and her husband and son live in Oldcastle, in County Meath, where many of the residents know one another and were shocked to hear of Sean's death, Conlan said.
He is expected to be buried in his mother's hometown in County Kerry in the southwest part of Ireland, Conlan said.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/15/braintree_boy_dies_in_ireland_accident?mode=PF   (476 words)

  
 Saint Oliver Plunkett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Oliver Plunkett was born in Loughcrew, in the parish of Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland on November 1, 1625.
The Meath branch, to which Oliver belonged, stemmed from Sir Christopher Plunkett,first Lord of Killeen, who married the wealthy Cusack heiress.
Another relative was Dr. Patrick Plunkett, Abbot of St. Mary's, Dublin and afterwards successfully Bishop of Armagh and Meath.
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 Ed Heeney
The Heeney family comes from the vicinity of Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, where Ed Heeney was born May 21, 1852.
His father, Edward Heeney, was born at Oldcastle, County Meath, in 1798, grew up and married there, was an Irish farmer and farming was his vocation throughout his career.
She was born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1813, and died in Doniphan County, Kansas, in 1873.
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 Genealogy.com: CaffreyPowers Family
July 17, 1838 in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland and d.
February 28, 1834 in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland and d.
December 16, 1918 in Cappaquin, County Waterford, Ireland.
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 County Meath, Ireland
Meath County Council are requesting that all ‘HOUSEHOLDERS’ refrain from donating any clothing item’s etc., to any organisation / individuals, as listed on these or similar leaflets.
The Community and Enterprise Section of Meath County Council, on behalf of Meath County Development Board, has established Meath Education Forum.
The first initiative being undertaken by the Forum is the commissioning of an Education and Training Audit for County Meath.
www.meath.ie   (627 words)

  
 Ireland Breaks, travel to ireland, dublin, cork, holidays in ireland, weekend breaks, short breaks ireland, holiday ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
And it can be party time of an evening or time for a quiet dinner in a pleasant restaurant.
Arrive in Oldcastle in time to relax in the Fincourt.
The choice is now yours; either visit the Meeting of the Waters and continue your journey in the hills, or drop down to the coast at Arklow and wind you way alongside the Irish Sea into Wicklow for your final night of the holiday.
www.irelandbreaks.co.uk /leisure/accommodation/viewdetails/midlands_pub_tour.htm   (739 words)

  
 Investment in Meath, Ireland, Meath County Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Enterprises that have a staff of fewer than 250 employees and with an annual turnover not exceeding €27 million are eligible for these incentives.
For investors and lessors capital allowances are available at 50% in Year 1 and 4% annual allowance up to a maximum of 100%.
Incentives are also available under the Finance Acts throughout the County to support domestic property investment, especially first time buyers of domestic property - see Revenue Commissioners and The Department of the Environment and Local Government websites for further information.
invest.meath.ie /tax_incentives.html   (187 words)

  
 Ain-Garth Oldcastle Co. Meath in Meath Ireland | Self Catering Breaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Ain-Garth Oldcastle Co. Meath in Meath Ireland
A booking is not confirmed until the deposit of 50% (or payment in full) has been received along with a completed reservation form.
Ain-Garth is ideally situated in the town of Oldcastle in County Meath.
www.self-catering-breaks.com /Properties/Ireland/Meath/Oldcastle/Prop22206.htm   (171 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 19 - 29 March, 1927 - WRITTEN ANSWERS. - COUNTY MEATH ESTATES.
HALL asked the Minister for Lands and Agriculture whether, in view of the great local demand for economic holdings the Land Commission [392] are now prepared to acquire the Grennanstown estate, Castletown, Athboy, County Meath, and, if not, whether he will state on what grounds the Land Commission decline to acquire this estate.
HALL asked the Minister for Lands and Agriculture if he will state when the Land Commission propose dividing the Bond estate at Ballinlough, Kells, County Meath, and whether he will see that the division of same is expedited.
Thomas Barden, of Bolies, Oldcastle, County Meath, who is the representative of a tenant evicted from the estate of James William Bond, on the 19th October, 1897, and whether the Land Commission propose making an allotment to this applicant when the Bond estate is being distributed.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0019/D.0019.192703290008.html   (333 words)

  
 Ireland Breaks, angling, fishing in ireland, holidays, vacations, fishing holiday, angling holiday, weekend break, ...
Located in the heart of Oldcastle, a small bustling town with plenty of other bars and restaurant, it has five spacious ensuite bedrooms all with TV, tea tray, trouser press, iron, hairdryer and telephone.
Lough Ramor – famous for its bream, skimmers and hybrids - is 10 minutes drive away and it’s a similar distance to Lacken where you will find great stocks of bream, roach and tench.
Oldcastle is central to the River Inny at Finea and Mullingar, Lough Derravaragh and top class pike fishing on Lough Sheelin.
www.leisureangling.co.uk /accommodation/fincourt.htm   (260 words)

  
 Co. Cavan; Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
Elizabeth P. KNIPE, widow of the Rev. Thomas F. KNIPE, formerly rector of Oldcastle, county Meath, and of Mount Nugent in this county.
CONLAN, we are told, held the bull by the horn all the time, and this alone prevented his immediate destruction; though upwards of sixty years of age, he was a man of great strength, as what we stated must leave clear enough.
BOYLE was a good landlord and a humane, but just magistrate, and is the last of forty other Grand Jurors of the county Cavan, his contemporaries who have preceded him, and gone to "that bourne where no traveller returns." Great merit is due to the Messrs.
www.irelandoldnews.com /Cavan/1854/NOV.html   (1946 words)

  
 County Meath
The rich heritage of County Meath ensures that every visit is memorable.
The megalithic tombs of the Boyne Valley are explained in the Visitor Centre, while the megalithic cemetery at Louthcrew dates to 3000 BC.
The wide range of equestrian centres and golf courses throughout the county, including the links at Bettystown/Laytown make Meath a destination worth discovering.
www.irelandbreaks.co.uk /leisure/accommodation/CountyMeath.htm   (198 words)

  
 County Meath Towns - Navan, Meath
Navan, the county town, is in pleasant undulating country at the meeting of the Boyne and Black-water Rivers, with a recently developed industry deriving from mineral deposits.
Nobber, in the very north of the county, was the birthplace of Turlough O'Carolan, composer, poet and the most famous of all Irish harpists.
The village of Oldcastle is the 18th-century creation of the Napier family who had received parts of the Plunkett estate following the Cromwellian wars.
www.countymeath.com /meath_navan.htm   (472 words)

  
 Starr Genealogy Researchers
Descends from Captain John STARR who came from England with Oliver Cromwell and settled in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland.
Descends from James STARR (great-grandfather) who was born in Louisville, KY. Her father and grandfather were born in CT. Lois also believes that members of the family lived outside of Atlanta, GA.
Descends from Captain John STARR who came from England with Cromwell and settled in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland.
staff.kutztown.edu /gifford/genealogy/starr/researchers.asp   (285 words)

  
 Triskelle - County Meath - General Information and Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Donore, Dunshaughlin, Kells, Navan, Oldcastle, Rotoath and Trim.
The megalithic tombs and burial grounds in the Boyne Valley, among which the famous passage tomb of Newgrange, are impressive remains from the early inhabitants of Ireland.
Other highlights in County Meath are the Hill of Tara, the royal and spiritual centre of ancient Ireland, and the Hill of Slane, the historic religious site where Saint Patrick's Eastern Fire competed with a pagan bonfire.
www.vincentpeters.nl /triskelle/tourism/todomeath.php?index=100.040.004.080   (164 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Oliver Plunket
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, born at Loughcrew near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, 1629; died 11 July, 1681.
He was connected by birth with the families which had just then been ennobled, the Earls of Roscommon and Fingall, as well as with Lords Louth and Dunsany.
Till his sixteenth year, his education was attended to by Patrick Plunket, Abbot of St. Mary's, Dublin, brother of the first Earl of Fingall, afterwards bishop, successively, of Ardagh and Meath.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12169b.htm   (1483 words)

  
 Charles Graham Halpine
HALPINE, Charles Graham, writer, born in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, 20 November, 1829; died in New York city, 3 August, 1868.
In 1867 he was elected register of the county by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats.
Incessant labor brought on insomnia with the use of opiates, and his death was the result of an undiluted dose of chloroform.
www.famousamericans.net /charlesgrahamhalpine   (809 words)

  
 Broadmining: CountyMeath&t=   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 Limericks Live 95FM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Gardai at Baileboro, County Cavan are investigating a death that occurred as the result of a single vehicle road traffic collision.
A 75-year-old man who was travelling alone in his motor car hit a wall at Moynalty, Kells, Co. Meath.
The deceased is identified as Tommy Donoghue, Newcastle, Oldcastle, County Meath.
www.live95fm.ie /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=38537&pt=n   (97 words)

  
 Porter Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Birth: 8 November 1866, in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland
Birth: 11 December 1878, in County Meath, Ireland
Married: Eliza Frances Kilroy on 11 April 1860, in Ballymachugh, County Cavan, Ireland
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 Groome Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
And in 1767 he became curate of Durrow (County Laois) and on 21 June 1768, curate of Castlecomer (County Kilkenny).
list of voters in County Louth in 1842, Edward Groome is found living as a freeholder at Beaulieu Lodge in Collon, in the Barony of Ferrard.
Married: to Solomon Richards in November 1792 at Castlecombe, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
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 ETC English Acquisitions March 2004 - May 2004The Ohio State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
An introduction to the architectural heritage of County Meath / Dept. of the Environment and Local Government, Duchas, The
Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland : Gallery Press, 2003.
Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland : Gallery Books, 2003.
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 AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS
A group of Gaelic Leaguers in the town of Oldcastle in County Meath resolved to found the new paper following a meeting on St Patrick's Day 1902 in the Naper Arms Hotel to entertain a young Dublin barrister and an up-and-coming leader of the Irish-Ireland movement, Pádraig Pearse.
With Pearse at the meeting were Liam Sheridan of Drumlerry, Paddy Bartley of Mount Nugent, Michael Grace and Charlie Fox of Oldcastle.
In its second issue the editorial board nailed its colours to its mast saying: ``While Sinn Féin is in existence it will always champion the cause of the oppressed against the oppressor and will be the stern champion of the labouring class''.
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 Descendants of Bernard and Roseanne Heerey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Bernard F. Heerey, born 23 March 1887 in County Cavan, Ireland.
He was born in Cotehill, County Cavan, Ireland, although I do not know what year.
She was born in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, year unknown.
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 Loughcrew | Museum/Attraction Review | County Meath | Frommers.com
The 30 passage tombs of Loughcrew, also known as Slieve na Calliaghe or "the hill of the witch," crown three hilltops in western Meath.
From their summits, the views of the plains of Meath and of the lake lands of Cavan are spectacular on a clear day.
Two of the cairns -- ornamented with Neolithic carvings -- can be entered with a key.
www.frommers.com /destinations/countymeath/A27100.html   (258 words)

  
 The Meath Chronicle Newspaper - County Meath, Ireland
a meath mother of two who bought drink in a Duleek off-licence and then handed it over to a young teenage boy has been placed under the supervision of the probation service for a year.
A BALLYMUN man accused of a series of raids on shops and supermarkets in February of last year was remanded on bail to 26th October next for service of the Book of Evidence when he appeared at Trim Court last week.
A SUMMONS against one Oldcastle publican for serving an under age person with alcohol was adjourned, while the same summons was dismissed against a second publican, at Oldcastle Court last Friday.
www.unison.ie /meath_chronicle/index.php3?ca=48&issue_id=4887   (638 words)

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