County Meath, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Meath’s past.
County Meath – Family Histories
- Arabin of Moyglare
- Barnewall, Baron Trimlestown
- Bobbett of Crickstown and Ashbourne – some notes
- Brabazon, Earls of Meath
- Brabazon Disney – A Mostly Clerical Family
- Butler of Dunboyne
- Conyngham, Marquess of, and Viscount Slane
- Dunboyne, Barons (Butler), of Dunboyne and Priestown
- McCarthy of Ratoath and Grange End
- Moore of Moore Abbey – Earls of Drogheda
- Plunkett of Crickstown
People connected to County Meath
- Columba (521-592) – the Making of a Missionary
- Jonathan Swift – A Tale of Two Women
- Richard Butler (1794-1862), Vicar of Trim and Dean of Clonmacnoise
- Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – A Hugely Successful Author
- William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840–1918) – A Gentleman Naturalist At Large
- Violet Gibson – The Irish Aristocrat Who Shot Mussolini
- Brendan Bracken (1901-1958) – Churchill’s Faithful Chela
- Jessie Harrington – Queen of the Turf
- Des Smyth – Champion Golfer, Bettystown / Laytown
- Tom Cruise’s links to Cruicetown and Nobber
Vanishing Ireland (Meath people)
- Andy Duff, Benny McCabe & the Slane Castle Stables
- Paddy Fagan (1924-2014), forester-farmer, Enfield
Places in Meath
- Notes on Dunboyne and Ratoath
- Notes on Enfield, Rathcore and Johnstown Bridge
- Notes on Laytown, Bettystown and Julianstown
- Bermingham’s Bar, Navan
- Mrs O’s (O’Connell’s Bar) – The Hill of Skryne
- Loughcrew House – Gilded Magnificence
- Navan – Notes for a Maxol Panel
- Oak Lodge, Duleek
- Trim Castle – Ireland’s Oldest Stone Castle
Articles with a Meath Connection
- Mesolithic Meath
- An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
- The Kings of Leinster
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- Vikings on Irish Waterways
- Normans on the Irish Waterways
- The Royal Canal – Rise, Fall, Rebirth
- George IV’s Royal Visit to Ireland, 1821
- The Journal of Rev. Hugh Usher Tighe & his wife Nanny McClintock (October 1827 – April 1831)
- What’s in a Name? The Houses of St Columba’s College
- The Night of the Big Wind, 1839
- Herman Görtz and Plan Kathleen
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- The Irish and the White House
- Waterways Through Time