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class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Pre-history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pre-history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Early_Christian_period_(400–1169)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_Christian_period_(400–1169)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Early Christian period (400–1169)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_Christian_period_(400–1169)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Kingdom_of_Meath" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kingdom_of_Meath"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.1</span> <span>Kingdom of Meath</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kingdom_of_Meath-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Monastic_settlement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Monastic_settlement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2</span> <span>Monastic settlement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Monastic_settlement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lordship_of_Ireland_(1169–1542)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lordship_of_Ireland_(1169–1542)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Lordship of Ireland (1169–1542)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lordship_of_Ireland_(1169–1542)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Norman_period" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norman_period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.1</span> <span>Norman period</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Norman_period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kingdom_of_Ireland_(1542–1800)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kingdom_of_Ireland_(1542–1800)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kingdom_of_Ireland_(1542–1800)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Tudor_conquest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tudor_conquest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.1</span> <span>Tudor conquest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tudor_conquest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Protestant_Ascendancy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Protestant_Ascendancy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.2</span> <span>Protestant Ascendancy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Protestant_Ascendancy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ethnicity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Ethnicity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ethnicity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Irish_language" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Irish_language"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Irish language</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Irish_language-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Urban_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Urban_areas"> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB" title="مقاطعة ميث – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مقاطعة ميث" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath" title="Meath – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Meath" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_K%C5%ABn" title="Meath Kūn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Meath Kūn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%82" title="Мийт – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мийт" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontelezh_An_Mh%C3%AD" title="Kontelezh An Mhí – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kontelezh An Mhí" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtat_de_Meath" title="Comtat de Meath – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Comtat de Meath" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mh%C3%AD" title="An Mhí – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="An Mhí" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstv%C3%AD_Meath" title="Hrabství Meath – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hrabství Meath" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swydd_Meath" title="Swydd Meath – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Swydd Meath" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Meath" title="Condado de Meath – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de Meath" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graflando_Meath" title="Graflando Meath – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Graflando Meath" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_konderria" title="Meath konderria – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Meath konderria" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AB" title="شهرستان میث – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان میث" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co._Meath" title="Co. Meath – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Co. Meath" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Meath" title="Comté de Meath – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de Meath" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae_na_M%C3%AD" title="Contae na Mí – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae na Mí" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coontae_yn_Vee" title="Coontae yn Vee – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Coontae yn Vee" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae_na_M%C3%AD" title="Contae na Mí – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Contae na Mí" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Meath" title="Condado de Meath – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Condado de Meath" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%A4%EC%A3%BC" title="미스주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미스주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_Meath" title="Contea di Meath – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di Meath" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%96_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%27" title="מחוז מית' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מחוז מית'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D" title="მითის საგრაფო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მითის საგრაფო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82_(%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%82%D1%8B%D2%9B)" title="Мит (графтық) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Мит (графтық)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilaya_ya_Meath" title="Wilaya ya Meath – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Wilaya ya Meath" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatus_Midiensis" title="Comitatus Midiensis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Comitatus Midiensis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%ABtas_gr%C4%81fiste" title="Mītas grāfiste – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mītas grāfiste" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mido_grafyst%C4%97" title="Mido grafystė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Mido grafystė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82_(%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0)" title="Мит (грофовија) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Мит (грофовија)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E7%9C%8C" title="ミーズ県 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ミーズ県" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_(Graafskap)" title="Meath (Graafskap) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Meath (Graafskap)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_(grevskap)" title="Meath (grevskap) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Meath (grevskap)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE" title="میتھ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="میتھ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_(hrabstwo)" title="Meath (hrabstwo) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Meath (hrabstwo)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Meath" title="Condado de Meath – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Condado de Meath" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatul_Meath" title="Comitatul Meath – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comitatul Meath" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Мит – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мит" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coontie_Meath" title="Coontie Meath – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Coontie Meath" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="County Meath" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_(gr%C3%B3fstvo)" title="Meath (grófstvo) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Meath (grófstvo)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3)" title="Мид (округ) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Мид (округ)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_(grofovija)" title="Meath (grofovija) – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Meath (grofovija)" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meathin_kreivikunta" title="Meathin kreivikunta – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Meathin kreivikunta" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath" title="Meath – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Meath" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Вилояти Меат – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Вилояти Меат" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meath_Kontlu%C4%9Fu" title="Meath Kontluğu – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Meath Kontluğu" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%82_(%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE)" title="Міт (графство) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Міт (графство)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" 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Ireland">Local authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meath_County_Council" title="Meath County Council">Meath County Council</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_constituencies" title="Dáil constituencies">Dáil constituencies</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;font-size:100%;"><div>4</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Cavan%E2%80%93Monaghan_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cavan–Monaghan (Dáil constituency)">Cavan–Monaghan</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Louth_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Louth (Dáil constituency)">Louth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_constituencies_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland">EP constituency</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Midlands%E2%80%93North-West_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)">Midlands–North-West</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,342 km<sup>2</sup> (904 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_area" title="List of Irish counties by area">14th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"> (<a href="/wiki/Slieve_na_Calliagh" title="Slieve na Calliagh">Slieve na Calliagh</a>)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">276 m (906 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">220,826</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population" title="List of Irish counties by population">8th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">94/km<sup>2</sup> (240/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">IE-MH</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Vehicle registration plates of Ireland">Vehicle index<br />mark code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">MH</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.meathcoco.ie">Official website</a></span></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183544#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="8" data-overlays="["_6304eb5ace8634464a4f473fbcf92c6798ec9b74"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=County_Meath&revid=1255650686&groups=_6304eb5ace8634464a4f473fbcf92c6798ec9b74" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=County_Meath&revid=1255650686&groups=_6304eb5ace8634464a4f473fbcf92c6798ec9b74 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>County Meath</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ð/: 'th' in 'this'">ð</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">MEEDH</span></i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <i lang="ga">Contae na Mí</i> or simply <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">an Mhí</i></span>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">middle</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">county</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Midland_Region" title="Eastern and Midland Region">Eastern and Midland Region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a>, within the <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a>. It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">County Dublin</a> to the southeast, <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">Louth</a> to the northeast, <a href="/wiki/County_Kildare" title="County Kildare">Kildare</a> to the south, <a href="/wiki/Offaly" class="mw-redirect" title="Offaly">Offaly</a> to the southwest, <a href="/wiki/Westmeath" class="mw-redirect" title="Westmeath">Westmeath</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">Cavan</a> to the northwest, and <a href="/wiki/County_Monaghan" title="County Monaghan">Monaghan</a> to the north. To the east, Meath also borders the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> along a narrow strip between the rivers <a href="/wiki/River_Boyne" title="River Boyne">Boyne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Delvin_River" title="Delvin River">Delvin</a>, giving it the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_coastline" title="List of Irish counties by coastline">second shortest</a> coastline of any county. <a href="/wiki/Meath_County_Council" title="Meath County Council">Meath County Council</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Local government in the Republic of Ireland">local authority</a> for the county. </p><p>Meath is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_area" title="List of Irish counties by area">14th-largest</a> of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by land area, and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population" title="List of Irish counties by population">8th-most populous</a>, with a total population of 220,826 according to the <a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022 census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county town and largest settlement in Meath is <a href="/wiki/Navan" title="Navan">Navan</a>, located in the centre of the county along the River Boyne. Other towns in the county include <a href="/wiki/Trim,_County_Meath" title="Trim, County Meath">Trim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kells,_County_Meath" title="Kells, County Meath">Kells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laytown" title="Laytown">Laytown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ashbourne,_County_Meath" title="Ashbourne, County Meath">Ashbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dunboyne" title="Dunboyne">Dunboyne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slane" title="Slane">Slane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bettystown" title="Bettystown">Bettystown</a>. </p><p>Colloquially known as "The Royal County", the historic <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Meath" title="Kingdom of Meath">Kingdom of Meath</a> was the seat of the <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a> and, for a time, was also the island's <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">fifth province</a>. Ruled for centuries by the <a href="/wiki/Southern_U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Southern Uí Néill">Southern Uí Néill</a> dynasty, in the late 1100s the kingdom was invaded by the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Normans" title="Anglo-Normans">Anglo-Norman</a> conqueror <a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Lacy,_Lord_of_Meath" title="Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath">Hugh de Lacy</a>, who ousted the Uí Néill and established himself as the <a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Meath" title="Lordship of Meath">Lord of Meath</a>. This lordship gradually diminished in size before being formally shired as County Meath in 1297, which was further sub-divided into Meath and <a href="/wiki/County_Westmeath" title="County Westmeath">Westmeath</a> in 1542. The county took its present boundaries in 1977, when much of <a href="/wiki/Drogheda" title="Drogheda">Drogheda</a> was transferred to <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">County Louth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meath has an abundance of historical sites, including the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Hill of Tara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Slane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill of Slane">Hill of Slane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newgrange" title="Newgrange">Newgrange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knowth" title="Knowth">Knowth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dowth" title="Dowth">Dowth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loughcrew" title="Loughcrew">Loughcrew</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Kells" title="Abbey of Kells">Abbey of Kells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trim_Castle" title="Trim Castle">Trim Castle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slane_Castle" title="Slane Castle">Slane Castle</a>. The county was also the site of the seminal <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">Battle of the Boyne</a>, which was fought near <a href="/wiki/Oldbridge" title="Oldbridge">Oldbridge</a> in 1690, ending in the defeat of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> and his flight to <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">France</a>. It is the only county in Leinster to have <a href="/wiki/Gaeltacht" title="Gaeltacht">Gaeltacht</a> regions, at <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1th_Chairn" title="Ráth Chairn">Ráth Chairn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baile_Ghib" title="Baile Ghib">Baile Ghib</a>, and is also one of only two counties outside of the west of Ireland to have an official Gaeltacht (the other being <a href="/wiki/County_Waterford" title="County Waterford">County Waterford</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography_and_subdivisions">Geography and subdivisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography and subdivisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meath is the 14th-largest of Ireland's 32 counties by area, and the eighth-largest in terms of population.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the second-largest of Leinster's 12 counties in size, and the third-largest in terms of population. Meath borders seven counties – <a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">Dublin</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">Louth</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Westmeath" class="mw-redirect" title="Westmeath">Westmeath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Offaly" class="mw-redirect" title="Offaly">Offaly</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/County_Kildare" title="County Kildare">Kildare</a> to the south, and <a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">Cavan</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Monaghan" title="County Monaghan">Monaghan</a> to the north. Meath's coastline stretches for roughly 20 km (12 mi) along the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> between the <a href="/wiki/River_Boyne" title="River Boyne">Boyne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Delvin_River" title="Delvin River">Delvin</a> rivers, making it the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_coastline" title="List of Irish counties by coastline">second shortest coastline</a> of any coastal county.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county town, Navan, is the largest settlement in Meath, and is situated on the River Boyne in the middle of the county. Navan is approximately 50 km (31 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> and 140 km (87 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Physical_geography">Physical geography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Physical geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Burrows,_Bettystown,_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg/220px-The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg/330px-The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg/440px-The_Burrows%2C_Bettystown%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_558986.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bettystown" title="Bettystown">Bettystown</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg/220px-Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg/330px-Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg/440px-Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="568" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/River_Boyne" title="River Boyne">River Boyne</a> at <a href="/wiki/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne" title="Brú na Bóinne">Brú na Bóinne</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Owing to the fertile agricultural plains along the Boyne valley, which dominate the county, Meath's landscape is largely rural in nature. However, it is also one of the most densely populated counties in Ireland, with a population density of 94 people per km2. Centuries of exhaustive harvesting and reclamation for agriculture have severely reduced the extent of <a href="/wiki/Bogland" class="mw-redirect" title="Bogland">bogland</a> in the county, especially in comparison to the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Midland_Region,_Ireland" title="Midland Region, Ireland">Midland</a> counties. However, small areas of bogland survived, such as Jamestown Bog, Girley Bog and Killyconny Bog, and are currently protected as either <a href="/wiki/List_of_Special_Areas_of_Conservation_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="List of Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland">Special Areas of Conservation</a> (SACs) or Natural Heritage Areas (NHAs).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The River Boyne, at 112 km (70 mi) in length, is Meath's dominant geographic feature and is synonymous with the county, having defined its history and culture over millennia. The two most prominent tributaries of the Boyne are the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Blackwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Leinster Blackwater">Leinster Blackwater</a>, which has its source in Cavan and flows south for 68 km (42 mi) before joining the Boyne at Navan, and the <a href="/wiki/Enfield_Blackwater" title="Enfield Blackwater">Enfield Blackwater</a>, which has its source in Kildare and flows north for 25 km (16 mi) before joining the Boyne at Donore. In the east of the county, both the <a href="/wiki/Nanny_(river)" title="Nanny (river)">River Nanny</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Delvin_River" title="Delvin River">Delvin River</a> flow to the Irish sea, with the latter demarcating the border with County Dublin. </p><p>As of 2017, there is a total of 13,326 ha (32,929 acres) of forest cover in the county, representing 5.7% of the total land area. This is an increase from just 11,200 ha (27,676 acres) (4.8%) in 2006. Nevertheless, Meath is Ireland's third-least forested county and remains well below the national average of 11% forest cover.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically, Meath was extensively forested, but experienced a near total deforestation between the 16th and 18th centuries. Although it has rebounded in recent years, the low forest cover compared to other counties can be explained by the lack of a significant commercial forestry industry within the county. Meath is one of the smallest contributors to the national timber supply, and over two-thirds of Meath's forests are <a href="/wiki/Broadleaf_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadleaf forest">broadleaf</a> – the highest of any county – as opposed to more commercially viable <a href="/wiki/Conifers" class="mw-redirect" title="Conifers">conifers</a>. Additionally, three-quarters of forests within the county are privately owned.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Climate">Climate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>, Meath experiences a maritime <a href="/wiki/Temperate" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperate">temperate</a> <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic climate</a> with cool winters, mild humid summers, and a lack of temperature extremes. <a href="/wiki/Met_%C3%89ireann" title="Met Éireann">Met Éireann</a> records the climate data for Meath from their station at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dunsany,_County_Meath&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dunsany, County Meath (page does not exist)">Dunsany</a>, situated 83 m (272 ft) above sea level. The average maximum January temperature is 7.3 °C (45 °F), while the average maximum July temperature is 19.6 °C (67 °F). On average, the sunniest months are May and June, while the wettest month is October with 87 mm (3 in) of rain, and the driest month is June with 67 mm (3 in).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Humidity is high year-round and rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the year. A number of <a href="/wiki/Weather_station" title="Weather station">synoptic stations</a> which record rainfall are located throughout the county. The driest parts of the county are in the east and south, while the wettest are in the west. <a href="/wiki/Julianstown" title="Julianstown">Julianstown</a> near the east coast receives 781 mm (31 in) of rainfall per year, while <a href="/wiki/Oldcastle,_County_Meath" title="Oldcastle, County Meath">Oldcastle</a> in the west receives 1,002 mm (39 in). The annual precipitation at Dunsany is 847 mm (33 in). </p><p>Snow showers generally occur between November and March, but prolonged or heavy snow events are rare. Although frost is common in the central and western areas of the county, temperatures typically fall below 0 °C (32 °F) on just a few days per year. The lowest ever temperature in Meath was recorded in December 2010, at −13.3 °C (8 °F).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Summer daytime temperatures range between 15 °C (59 °F) and 22 °C (72 °F), with temperatures rarely going beyond 25 °C (77 °F). As with rainfall, the sunniest areas of the county are located along the coast. The climate gets progressively duller and wetter inland due to the convective development of clouds over land. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1-loughcrew3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/1-loughcrew3.jpg/230px-1-loughcrew3.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/1-loughcrew3.jpg/345px-1-loughcrew3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/1-loughcrew3.jpg/460px-1-loughcrew3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1068" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Slieve_na_Calliagh" title="Slieve na Calliagh">Slieve na Calliagh</a> hills</figcaption></figure> <p>The county's geological landscape is predominantly made up of <a href="/wiki/Lower_Carboniferous" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Carboniferous">Lower Carboniferous</a> <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a>, which underlies approximately 75% of the county. These were laid down following the erosion of mountain ranges which formed due to the closure of the <a href="/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean" title="Iapetus Ocean">Iapetus Ocean</a>. The eroded mountains became basins in which limestone sediments and carbonate <a href="/wiki/Mudstone" title="Mudstone">mud</a> were deposited. The oldest rocks in the county are <a href="/wiki/Ordovician" title="Ordovician">Ordovician</a> in age and are found in thin layers near <a href="/wiki/Slane" title="Slane">Slane</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Stamullen" title="Stamullen">Stamullen</a>, while the youngest rocks are of <a href="/wiki/Paleogene" title="Paleogene">Paleogene</a> age, and were formed as a result of volcanic activity. These are found in small <a href="/wiki/Dike_(geology)" title="Dike (geology)">dykes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sill_(geology)" title="Sill (geology)">sills</a> throughout the county. <a href="/wiki/Extensional_tectonics" title="Extensional tectonics">Crustal stretching</a> beneath Ireland during the Carboniferous allowed fluids to infiltrate through faults in the rock, and extensive mineralisation occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most notably, zinc-bearing <a href="/wiki/Sphalerite" title="Sphalerite">Sphalerite</a> and lead-bearing <a href="/wiki/Galena" title="Galena">Galena</a> were deposited in vast quantities, giving Ireland the highest concentration of zinc per square kilometre on Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ubiquity of these minerals gave rise to the term "<a href="/wiki/Carbonate-hosted_lead-zinc_ore_deposits" title="Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits">Irish-type</a>" lead-zinc deposits, which is a descriptive term for lead-zinc deposits hosted in carbonate rocks.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meath's landscape was shaped during the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period" title="Last Glacial Period">Last Glacial Period</a>, which ended 11,700 years ago. The soils of the county are mostly derived from <a href="/wiki/Glacial_till" class="mw-redirect" title="Glacial till">glacial till</a>, consisting of a mix of clay, sand and gravel which were deposited by glacial melt-water. In the north of the county near the border with Cavan, a small series of <a href="/wiki/Drumlin" title="Drumlin">drumlins</a> were formed from <a href="/wiki/Boulder_clay" title="Boulder clay">boulder clay</a>. Loughs typically form in between the poorly-drained inter-drumlin areas, however unlike in neighbouring Cavan and Westmeath, Meath has no sizable loughs, other than <a href="/wiki/Lough_Sheelin" title="Lough Sheelin">Lough Sheelin</a>, on which the county shares a small coastline in its westernmost tip.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meath is largely flat and much of the county lies below 100 m (330 ft) above sea-level. The minor hills in the far west of the county at <a href="/wiki/Loughcrew" title="Loughcrew">Loughcrew</a>, and in the north at Carrickleck are the only upland areas of any significance. <a href="/wiki/Slieve_na_Calliagh" title="Slieve na Calliagh">Slieve na Calliagh</a>, at just 276 m (906 ft) in height, is the highest point in the county, making it the second lowest <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_highest_point" title="List of Irish counties by highest point">county top</a> in Ireland. Carrickleck Hill, near the Cavan border, is the second highest peak in Meath, at 173 m (568 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-mv_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mv-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Hill of Tara</a> is located south of Navan and, although just 155 m (509 ft) in height, is the most prominent feature in the local topography, commanding a panoramic view of the surrounding area. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baronies">Baronies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Baronies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are eighteen historic <a href="/wiki/Barony_(Ireland)" title="Barony (Ireland)">baronies</a> in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they are no longer used for many administrative purposes, and the barony boundaries in County Meath which continuously changed from the 16th to 19th centuries were last finalised in 1807. Their official status is illustrated by Placenames Orders made since 2003, where official Irish names of baronies are listed under "Administrative units". The largest barony in Meath is Kells Upper, at 49,552 acres (201 km2), and the smallest barony is Dunboyne, at 16,781 acres (68 km2). </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_baronies_of_Ireland" title="List of baronies of Ireland">List of baronies of Ireland</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baronies_of_Meath.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Baronies_of_Meath.jpg/250px-Baronies_of_Meath.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Baronies_of_Meath.jpg/375px-Baronies_of_Meath.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Baronies_of_Meath.jpg/500px-Baronies_of_Meath.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3142" data-file-height="2227" /></a><figcaption>The Baronies of County Meath, 1900</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 28em;"> <ul><li>Deece Upper (<i>Déise Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li>Deece Lower (<i>Déise Íochtarach</i>)</li> <li>Duleek Upper (<i>Damhliag Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li>Duleek Lower (<i>Damhliag Íochtarach</i>)</li> <li>Dunboyne (<i>Dún Búinne</i>)</li> <li>Fore (<i>Baile Fhobhair</i>)</li> <li>Kells Upper (<i>Ceanannas Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kells_Lower" title="Kells Lower">Kells Lower</a> (<i>Ceanannas Íochtarach</i>)</li> <li>Lune (<i>Luíne</i>)</li> <li>Morgallion (<i>Machaire Gaileang</i>)</li> <li>Moyfenrath Upper (<i>Maigh Fionnráithe Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li>Moyfenrath Lower (<i>Maigh Fionnráithe Íochtarach</i>)</li> <li>Navan Upper (<i>An Uaimh Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li>Navan Lower (<i>An Uaimh Íochtarach</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratoath_(barony)" title="Ratoath (barony)">Ratoath</a> (<i>Ráth Tó</i>)</li> <li>Skreen/Skryne (<i>An Scrín</i>)</li> <li>Slane Upper (<i>Baile Shláine Uachtarach</i>)</li> <li>Slane Lower (<i>Baile Shláine Íochtarach</i>)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_parishes_and_townlands">Civil parishes and townlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Civil parishes and townlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_Meath" title="List of townlands of County Meath">List of townlands of County Meath</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">Townlands</a> are the smallest officially defined geographical divisions in Ireland, there are approximately 1,634 townlands in the county. Historic town boundaries are registered as their own townlands and much larger than rural townlands which, within County Meath, are typically small in size, ranging from just 1 acre to 2,681 acres, with the average size of a townland in the county (excluding towns) being 356 acres. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Towns_and_villages">Towns and villages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Towns and villages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_County_Meath" title="List of towns and villages in County Meath">List of towns and villages in County Meath</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_statistical_region">European statistical region</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: European statistical region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For <a href="/wiki/NUTS_statistical_regions_of_Ireland" title="NUTS statistical regions of Ireland">statistical purposes at EU level</a>, the county is part of the <a href="/wiki/Mid-East_Region,_Ireland" title="Mid-East Region, Ireland">Mid-East Region</a> – a NUTS III entity – which is in turn part of the level II NUTS entity – <a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Midland_Region" title="Eastern and Midland Region">Eastern and Midland Region</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance_and_politics">Governance and politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The four symbols on Meath's coat of arms: <a href="/wiki/Triskele" class="mw-redirect" title="Triskele">Triskele</a>, <a href="/wiki/High_cross" title="High cross">High cross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge" title="Salmon of Knowledge">Salmon of Knowledge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Tara" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Tara">Kings of Tara</a></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_government">Local government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Local government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Meath_County_Council" title="Meath County Council">Meath County Council</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Local government in the Republic of Ireland">local authority</a> governing County Meath. It has 40 councillors, and the county is divided into divided into six <a href="/wiki/Local_electoral_area" title="Local electoral area">local electoral areas</a>, each of which also forms a municipal district: Ashbourne (6), Kells (7), Laytown–Bettystown (7), Navan (7), Ratoath (7) and Trim (6).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fine_Gael" title="Fine Gael">Fine Gael</a> currently hold 11 seats, <a href="/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" title="Fianna Fáil">Fianna Fáil</a> hold 9, <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> hold 6, <a href="/wiki/Aont%C3%BA" title="Aontú">Aontú</a> hold 2, and the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democrats_(Ireland)" title="Social Democrats (Ireland)">Social Democrats</a> hold 1. There are 11 independent councillors. Council elections are held every 5 years, with the next election due to be held in June 2029. The <a href="/wiki/2024_Meath_County_Council_election" title="2024 Meath County Council election">2024 Meath local elections</a> had a voter turnout of 48.0%, a very slight decrease of 0.1% on the <a href="/wiki/2019_Meath_County_Council_election" title="2019 Meath County Council election">2019 election</a>. The highest turnout was at Kells (55.0%) and the lowest was at Trim (43.9%).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The council has three representatives on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Midland_Regional_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly">Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county town is Navan, where the county hall and government are located, although <a href="/wiki/Trim,_County_Meath" title="Trim, County Meath">Trim</a>, the former county town, has historical significance and remains a sitting place of the <a href="/wiki/Courts_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Courts of the Republic of Ireland">circuit court</a>. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Seats </th> <th><abbr title="First preference votes percentage">FPv%</abbr> </th> <th>% Change since <a href="/wiki/2019_Meath_County_Council_election" title="2019 Meath County Council election">2019</a> </th> <th>Seat Change since 2019 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Fine_Gael" title="Fine Gael">Fine Gael</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">11</td> <td style="text-align:right;">24.4%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5.2%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" title="Fianna Fáil">Fianna Fáil</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9</td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.9%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4.4%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6</td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.4%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.5%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #44532A;" data-sort-value="Aontú"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Aont%C3%BA" title="Aontú">Aontú</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">2</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.4%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.6%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #752F8B;" data-sort-value="Social Democrats (Ireland)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democrats_(Ireland)" title="Social Democrats (Ireland)">Social Democrats</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.6%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.6%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Ireland)" title="Labour Party (Ireland)">Labour</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">0</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.8%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.6%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician (Ireland)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician_(Ireland)" title="Independent politician (Ireland)">Independent</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">11</td> <td style="text-align:right;">28.0%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4.1%</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_districts">Former districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Former districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>County Meath was divided under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Rural_district_(Ireland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rural district (Ireland)">rural districts</a> of Ardee No. 2, Dunshaughlin, Kells, Meath, Navan, Oldcastle, Trim, and Edenderry No. 3, and the <a href="/wiki/Urban_district_(Ireland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban district (Ireland)">urban districts</a> of An Uaimh (<a href="/wiki/Navan" title="Navan">Navan</a>), Ceannanus Mór (<a href="/wiki/Kells,_County_Meath" title="Kells, County Meath">Kells</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Trim,_County_Meath" title="Trim, County Meath">Trim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rural districts were abolished in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The urban districts became <a href="/wiki/Town_council_(Ireland)" title="Town council (Ireland)">town councils</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All town councils in Ireland were abolished in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_elections">National elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: National elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Bruton_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/John_Bruton_2011.jpg/160px-John_Bruton_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/John_Bruton_2011.jpg/240px-John_Bruton_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/John_Bruton_2011.jpg/320px-John_Bruton_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="882" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Bruton" title="John Bruton">John Bruton</a>, Taoiseach (1994–97)</figcaption></figure> <p>County Meath is within four <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_constituencies" title="Dáil constituencies">Dáil constituencies</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cavan%E2%80%93Monaghan_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cavan–Monaghan (Dáil constituency)">Cavan–Monaghan</a> – comprises the entirety of counties <a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">Cavan</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Monaghan" title="County Monaghan">Monaghan</a>, with a small portion of northern County Meath;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louth_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Louth (Dáil constituency)">Louth</a> – comprises the entirety of <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">County Louth</a>, with the electoral divisions of Julianstown and St. Marys (Part) in County Meath;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a> – lies entirely within the borders of the county;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a> – comprises the western portion of the county and includes a part of the neighbouring county of <a href="/wiki/County_Westmeath" title="County Westmeath">Westmeath</a>;</li></ul> <p>From 1923 to 1937, and again from 1948 to 2007, there was one <a href="/wiki/Meath_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath (Dáil constituency)">Meath</a> constituency. From 1937 to 1948 the county was within the <a href="/wiki/Meath%E2%80%93Westmeath_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath–Westmeath (Dáil constituency)">Meath–Westmeath</a> constituency. Between 1923 and 2007 a total of 31 <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Elections in the Republic of Ireland">general elections</a> and <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-elections</a> were held. Following the demise of <a href="/wiki/Cumann_na_nGaedheal" title="Cumann na nGaedheal">Cumann na nGaedheal</a> in the 1930s, national politics in the Meath and Meath–Westmeath constituencies was dominated by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour Party. During those years, the Meath and Meath–Westmeath constituencies returned a total of 106 <a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">TDs</a> to <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann" title="Dáil Éireann">Dáil Éireann</a>, of which 54 were from Fianna Fáil, 34 from Fine Gael and 11 from Labour; with Cumann na nGaedheal and the <a href="/wiki/Farmers%27_Party_(Ireland)" title="Farmers' Party (Ireland)">Farmers' Party</a> returning 6 and 1 TDs respectively in the 1920s and 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No other party would win a Dáil seat in Meath until 2011, when <a href="/wiki/Peadar_T%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn" title="Peadar Tóibín">Peadar Tóibín</a> was elected to <a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a> for Sinn Féin. </p><p>Meath East and Meath West return 6 TDs to the Dáil. In the most recent <a href="/wiki/2020_Irish_general_election" title="2020 Irish general election">general election in 2020</a>, Sinn Féin won 2 of the 6 seats, Fine Gael won 2, and Fianna Fáil and Aontú both won 1 seat each. The voter turnout at the 2016 general election was 61.5% in Meath West, and 63.4% in Meath East. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_elections">European elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: European elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county is part of the 4-seat <a href="/wiki/Midlands%E2%80%93North-West_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)">Midlands–North-West</a> constituency for elections to the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county is colloquially known by the nickname "The Royal County", owing to its history as the seat of the <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It formed from the eastern part of the former <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mide" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Mide">Kingdom of Mide</a> but now forms part of the <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a>. Historically, the kingdom and its successor territory the <a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Meath" title="Lordship of Meath">Lordship of Meath</a> included all of the counties Meath, <a href="/wiki/Fingal" title="Fingal">Fingal</a> and Westmeath as well as parts of counties <a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">Cavan</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Longford" title="County Longford">Longford</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">Louth</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Offaly" title="County Offaly">Offaly</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Kildare" title="County Kildare">Kildare</a>. The seat of the High King of Ireland was at <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Tara</a>. The archaeological complex of <i><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne" title="Brú na Bóinne">Brú na Bóinne</a></i> in the north-east of the county is 5,000 years old and is a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>-designated <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg/220px-Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg/330px-Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg/440px-Tremblestown_Bracelets.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2353" data-file-height="1140" /></a><figcaption>Gold Bracelets from Tremblestown, c. 800–700 BC</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-history">Pre-history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Pre-history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg/220px-Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg/330px-Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg/440px-Bog-body_Clonycavan-Man.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Clonycavan_Man" title="Clonycavan Man">Clonycavan Man</a>, c. 392–201 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest known evidence of human settlement in the county is the <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic" title="Mesolithic">Mesolithic</a> flints found at Randalstown north of Navan, which were uncovered during the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Tailings" title="Tailings">tailings</a> pond for Tara Mines in the 1970s. These flints have been dated to 9,500 BC and are one of the earliest traces of <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Ireland" title="Prehistoric Ireland">pre-historic humans in Ireland</a>. The excavation site at Randalstown also revealed other evidence of <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherer</a> society, such as a <a href="/wiki/Fulacht_fiadh" title="Fulacht fiadh">fulacht fiadh</a> and mounds of burnt soil and stone.<sup id="cite_ref-History_of_Meath_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History_of_Meath-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Farming was established in the area during the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> period. This provided a surplus of time and resources which was spent constructing great stone monuments to the dead, such as <a href="/wiki/Passage_grave" title="Passage grave">passage graves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Court_cairn" title="Court cairn">court cairns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gallery_grave#Wedge-shaped" title="Gallery grave">wedge tombs</a>. There are hundreds of surviving examples of these dotted across the landscape, however, the most famous Neolithic monuments in Ireland are those at <a href="/wiki/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne" title="Brú na Bóinne">Brú na Bóinne</a> – <a href="/wiki/Newgrange" title="Newgrange">Newgrange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knowth" title="Knowth">Knowth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dowth" title="Dowth">Dowth</a>. These tombs were constructed prior to 3,000 BC making them older than <a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids" title="Egyptian pyramids">Egyptian pyramids</a>. The site is believed to have been of religious significance and is decorated with <a href="/wiki/Megalithic_art" title="Megalithic art">megalithic art</a>. Newgrange, the largest pre-historic tomb in Ireland, is most famous for its alignment with the <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">equinoxes</a>, when sunlight shines through a '<a href="/wiki/Roofbox" title="Roofbox">roofbox</a>' and floods the inner chamber.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-solstice_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solstice-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In constructing the tomb the early settlers displayed an advanced knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Calendar" title="Calendar">calendar</a> system. However, a writing system would not be developed until the 1st century BC, with the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a>. </p><p>The arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a> to Ireland around 500 BC heralded the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Ireland#Iron_Age_(500_BC-AD_400)" title="Prehistoric Ireland">Iron Age</a> and the establishment of most of what would define Gaelic Irish culture for millennia; including <a href="/wiki/Primitive_Irish" title="Primitive Irish">Primitive Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic paganism</a> and an early form of the <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaelic calendar">Gaelic calendar</a>. The ancient monuments of the Boyne Valley were assimilated into Celtic culture and mythology, with <a href="/wiki/C%C3%BA_Chulainn" title="Cú Chulainn">Cú Chulainn</a> said to have been conceived at Newgrange. Furthermore, tradition states that <a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_mac_Dela" title="Sláine mac Dela">Sláine mac Dela</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolg</a>, cleared the forest at Brú na Bóinne and built the monuments, becoming the first High King of Ireland. It was during the Celtic period that Meath was divided into 8 <a href="/wiki/T%C3%BAath" title="Túath">túatha</a>, the primary political unit of <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic Ireland">Celtic Ireland</a>. The túatha were independent <a href="/wiki/Petty_kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Petty kingdoms">petty kingdoms</a> ruled by a chief who was elected by members of their extended family. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Christian_period_(400–1169)"><span id="Early_Christian_period_.28400.E2.80.931169.29"></span>Early Christian period (400–1169)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Early Christian period (400–1169)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kingdom_of_Meath">Kingdom of Meath</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Kingdom of Meath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Meath" title="Kingdom of Meath">Kingdom of Meath</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Meath" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kings of Meath">List of Kings of Meath</a>, and <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg/140px-Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg/210px-Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg/280px-Coat_of_arms_of_Meath.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="338" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Mide" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of arms of Mide">Coat of arms</a> of the Kingdom of Meath</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lia_Fail.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Lia_Fail.jpg/220px-Lia_Fail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Lia_Fail.jpg/330px-Lia_Fail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Lia_Fail.jpg/440px-Lia_Fail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lia_F%C3%A1il" title="Lia Fáil">Lia Fáil</a></i> (Stone of Destiny) at the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Hill of Tara</a> was the traditional inauguration site of the <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Due to a lack of extensive written historical records prior to the 5th century AD, the early history of Meath is murky and largely mythologised. <a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish legend</a> purports that the title of "<a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a>" stretches back millennia, however, it is today known that the Hill of Tara did not become a seat of power until the early centuries AD.<sup id="cite_ref-DOC_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DOC-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 400s, <a href="/wiki/Niall_of_the_Nine_Hostages" title="Niall of the Nine Hostages">Niall of the Nine Hostages</a>, King of the <a href="/wiki/U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Uí Néill">Uí Néill</a>, conquered southward from <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> and established a kingdom in Meath. As was commonplace in Ireland at the time, the achievements of Niall and his sons were propagandised and <a href="/wiki/Cycles_of_the_Kings" title="Cycles of the Kings">mythicised</a> by <a href="/wiki/Irish_bardic_poetry" title="Irish bardic poetry">bards</a> to such an extent that much of what is known about them is considered fictional. Nevertheless, the dynasty of the Uí Néill had become firmly established in the centre of Ireland and they proclaimed themselves the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Tara" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Tara">Kings of Tara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Uisnech" title="Kings of Uisnech">Kings of Uisnech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Uí Néill dynasty subsequently divided into two septs, the <a href="/wiki/Northern_U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Northern Uí Néill">Northern Uí Néill</a> who remained in Ulster, and the <a href="/wiki/Southern_U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Southern Uí Néill">Southern Uí Néill</a> who now ruled over several small, disjointed kingdoms established throughout modern-day Meath, Westmeath and Dublin. </p><p>Following the split, a series of internecine conflicts erupted between members of the Uí Néill septs. The feud was eventually resolved, and as part of the resolution, it was decided that the position of King of Tara would alternate between the northern and southern Uí Néill septs. The title alternated between the two septs for over 500 years, with every second king travelling south from Ulster for an inauguration ceremony at Tara.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 740, <a href="/wiki/Domnall_Midi" title="Domnall Midi">Domnall Midi</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Clann_Cholm%C3%A1in" title="Clann Cholmáin">Clann Cholmáin</a> dynasty, the most powerful branch of the southern Uí Néill, had conquered or subdued all neighbouring clans in Meath, and the Uí Néill were recognised as their <a href="/wiki/Suzerain" class="mw-redirect" title="Suzerain">suzerain</a>. Domnall was now in possession of both Tara, the seat of the Uí Néill, and the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Uisneach" title="Hill of Uisneach">Hill of Uisneach</a>, which held symbolic significance as the <a href="/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Ireland" title="Geographical centre of Ireland">geographical centre of Ireland</a>. Having secured his power in the heart of the island, Domnall now presided over a unified <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mide" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Mide">Kingdom of Mide</a> (<i>Meath</i>), a name derived from the <a href="/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a> meaning "middle".<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/Irish_annals" title="Irish annals">annalistic</a> mention of a "<i>High King of Ireland</i>" or "<i>Ard-Rí</i>" was <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1el_Sechnaill_mac_M%C3%A1ele_Ruanaid" title="Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid">Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid</a>, King of Mide, who died in 862 AD, having achieved many victories against both the <a href="/wiki/Norse%E2%80%93Gaels" title="Norse–Gaels">Norse</a> and the kingdoms of Ulster. Later historians would retroactively apply the title of "High King" to the earlier Kings of Tara, although there were no contemporary references to either the Kings of Tara or Mide being referred to as <i>Ard-Rí</i> prior to the 9th century.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the reign of <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1el_Sechnaill_mac_Domnaill" title="Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill">Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill</a> in the 970s, the fort of Dun-na-Scia near <a href="/wiki/Lough_Ennell" title="Lough Ennell">Lough Ennell</a> became the permanent royal residence, thereby creating two seats of power within the kingdom – one for the High King and one for the King of Mide.<sup id="cite_ref-Annals_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Annals-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kells-Round-Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Kells-Round-Tower.jpg/200px-Kells-Round-Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Kells-Round-Tower.jpg/300px-Kells-Round-Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Kells-Round-Tower.jpg/400px-Kells-Round-Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1068" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>A religious settlement at <a href="/wiki/Kells,_County_Meath" title="Kells, County Meath">Kells</a> was founded in 550 AD.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the late 10th century, the <a href="/wiki/Dalcassians" title="Dalcassians">Dalcassians</a> to the south, led by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Boru" title="Brian Boru">Brian Boru</a>, consolidated their hold over <a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a>, with Boru establishing himself as <a href="/wiki/King_of_Munster" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Munster">King of Munster</a>. The ascendancy of this longtime rival kingdom posed a serious threat to High King <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1el_Sechnaill_mac_Domnaill" title="Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill">Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill</a>, so the two leaders met at <a href="/wiki/Clonfert" title="Clonfert">Clonfert</a> in 997 and agreed upon a truce, whereby Boru was granted overlordship of the southern half of the island. The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Leinster" title="Kingdom of Leinster">Kingdom of Leinster</a> immediately rebelled against Boru and allied with the Norse <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dublin" title="Kingdom of Dublin">Kingdom of Dublin</a>. Mide and Munster formed a defensive alliance and, after a series of campaigns throughout 998–999, crushed the forces of Leinster and Dublin, which both became <a href="/wiki/Vassal_state" title="Vassal state">vassals</a> of Munster. </p><p>Boru now believed that Munster was the most powerful kingdom in Ireland and therefore he, and not Máel Sechnaill, should be the High King. Máel Sechnaill's claim to the kingship was challenged by Boru in 1002 at the Hill of Tara. The Meath king requested a month-long truce to rally his subordinates to his side, which Boru accepted, however, Máel Sechnaill was quickly abandoned by his northern Uí Néill kinsmen. Having failed to raise enough troops to challenge Boru, he was forced to abdicate, thus ending the hereditary right of the Uí Néill to the title of High King. Although they remained Kings of Meath, the power and prestige of the southern Uí Néill would never recover.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Monastic_settlement">Monastic settlement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Monastic settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission" title="Hiberno-Scottish mission">Hiberno-Scottish mission</a></div> <p>Traditional accounts of the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Patrick" title="Saint Patrick">Saint Patrick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> to Ireland are centred on Meath and its legendary High Kings. Folklore states that he travelled to the kingdom to light a <a href="/wiki/Easter_Fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter Fire">Paschal Fire</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Slane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill of Slane">Hill of Slane</a>, in defiance of High-King <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B3egaire_mac_N%C3%A9ill" title="Lóegaire mac Néill">Lóegaire mac Néill</a>, who was on the nearby Hill of Tara celebrating a pagan festival. Patrick was then summoned to the king's court and so impressed Lóegaire with his teachings that he was allowed to continue preaching Christianity across Ireland. While Christian missionaries were documented in Ireland long before the time of Saint Patrick, and accounts of his activities are heavily shrouded in myth, what is known is that by the late 6th century AD Christianity had supplanted <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic Paganism</a> in every corner of the island.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a similar manner to how the Celts assimilated prehistoric traditions into their beliefs, many Celtic pagan beliefs and festivities were adapted to <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Christianity" title="Celtic Christianity">Celtic Christianity</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Samhain" title="Samhain">Samhain</a>, which became <a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Imbolc" title="Imbolc">Imbolc</a>, which became St. Brigid's Day. </p><p>By the 7th century a network of monasteries and religious settlements had been set up throughout Ireland and <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata" title="Dál Riata">Western Scotland</a>, supported by local kings and chieftains. Beginning at this time, the "<i>Golden Age of Irish Christianity</i>" lasted for several centuries. Irish Scholars preserved invaluable <a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin" title="Classical Latin">Latin texts</a> and Gaelic monasteries developed into centres of learning which attracted theologians from across Europe. These monasteries sent missionaries to northern and central Europe to re-ignite Christianity and Latin tradition in areas where it had lapsed following the fall of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Roman Empire</a>. One of Ireland's national nicknames, "<i>the land of saints and scholars</i>", is in reference to this period. </p><p>Patronage of the Church was also used as a political tool to project wealth and prestige in Irish kingdoms until the 16th century. Successive High Kings and Kings of Meath supported the establishment of prominent religious settlements and institutions, such as <a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Kells" title="Abbey of Kells">Kells</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clonard_Abbey" title="Clonard Abbey">Clonard Abbey</a>, the latter of which taught Ireland's most significant saints, dubbed the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Apostles_of_Ireland" title="Twelve Apostles of Ireland">Twelve Apostles of Ireland</a>. During the golden age, the monasteries of Meath were associated with several of Ireland's most famous artefacts, which are considered to be among the finest examples of <a href="/wiki/Insular_art" title="Insular art">Insular</a> and medieval <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian art</a> in existence.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ireland_2010_etc_029_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tara Brooch, c. 7th century"><img alt="Tara Brooch, c. 7th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg/90px-Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg/135px-Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg/180px-Ireland_2010_etc_029_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Tara_Brooch" title="Tara Brooch">Tara Brooch</a>, <br />c. 7th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Donore_Handle.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Donore Handle, c. 8th century"><img alt="Donore Handle, c. 8th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Donore_Handle.jpg/120px-Donore_Handle.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Donore_Handle.jpg/180px-Donore_Handle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Donore_Handle.jpg/240px-Donore_Handle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1692" data-file-height="1489" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Donore,_County_Meath" title="Donore, County Meath">Donore</a> Handle, <br />c. 8th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Book of Kells, c. 9th century"><img alt="Book of Kells, c. 9th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg/92px-KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg" decoding="async" width="92" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg/138px-KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg/184px-KellsFol032vChristEnthroned.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1484" data-file-height="1934" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Kells" title="Book of Kells">Book of Kells</a>, <br />c. 9th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kells Crozier, c. 10th century"><img alt="Kells Crozier, c. 10th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg/80px-Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg/120px-Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg/160px-Britishmuseumkellscrozier.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="3888" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kells_Crozier" title="Kells Crozier">Kells Crozier</a>, <br />c. 10th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="St. Patrick's Shrine, c. 11th century"><img alt="St. Patrick's Shrine, c. 11th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg/90px-The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg/135px-The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg/180px-The_Bell_of_Saint_Patrick_Shrine_MET_tem07651s1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">St. Patrick's Shrine, <br />c. 11th century</div> </li> </ul> <p>As knowledge of the importance and wealth of the Irish monasteries became more widely known, they began to attract the attention of <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a>, who were raiding throughout Britain and Ireland in the 8th century. The most distinctive feature of Irish monasteries, their <a href="/wiki/Irish_round_tower" title="Irish round tower">round towers</a>, were built in response to these Viking raids. Eventually, the Vikings established kingdoms and founded <a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(800%E2%80%931169)#Second_Viking_age_(914–980)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Ireland (800–1169)">Ireland's first cities</a> along coastal areas, including in neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>. The High Kings and lesser kingdoms waged near-continuous war with these <a href="/wiki/Norse-Gael" class="mw-redirect" title="Norse-Gael">Norse-Gael</a> settlers for over two centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lordship_of_Ireland_(1169–1542)"><span id="Lordship_of_Ireland_.281169.E2.80.931542.29"></span>Lordship of Ireland (1169–1542)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Lordship of Ireland (1169–1542)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Norman_period">Norman period</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Norman period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Meath" title="Lordship of Meath">Lordship of Meath</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trim_Castle_6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Trim_Castle_6.jpg/220px-Trim_Castle_6.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Trim_Castle_6.jpg/330px-Trim_Castle_6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Trim_Castle_6.jpg/440px-Trim_Castle_6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Trim_Castle" title="Trim Castle">Trim Castle</a>, the largest Norman castle in Ireland</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1166, <a href="/wiki/Diarmait_Mac_Murchada" title="Diarmait Mac Murchada">Diarmait Mac Murchada</a> was banished from Ireland by the High King <a href="/wiki/Ruaidr%C3%AD_Ua_Conchobair" title="Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair">Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair</a> for the abduction of Lady of Meath <a href="/wiki/Derbforgaill_ingen_Maeleachlainn" title="Derbforgaill ingen Maeleachlainn">Derbforgaill ingen Maeleachlainn</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Tigern%C3%A1n_Ua_Ruairc" title="Tigernán Ua Ruairc">Tigernán Ua Ruairc</a>, King of <a href="/wiki/Breifne" class="mw-redirect" title="Breifne">Breifne</a>. Mac Murchada returned with Norman allies and landed at Bannow in <a href="/wiki/County_Wexford" title="County Wexford">Wexford</a> in 1169, after which they conquered northward throughout 1169–70, initiating the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Invasion_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman Invasion of Ireland">Norman Invasion of Ireland</a>. In response, the High King assembled an alliance which included King Magnus Ua Máel Sechlainn of Meath as well as soldiers from <a href="/wiki/Connacht" title="Connacht">Connacht</a>, Breifne and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dublin" title="Kingdom of Dublin">Dublin</a> along with their respective kings. They confronted Mac Murchada's forces at <a href="/wiki/Ferns,_County_Wexford" title="Ferns, County Wexford">Ferns</a> and an agreement was reached whereby Mac Murchada was acknowledged as king of Leinster, in return for acknowledging Ruaidrí as his overlord and agreeing to send his foreign allies away permanently.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Mac Murchada breached the agreement and enlisted more Normans to his side before continuing his conquests, capturing <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> in 1171 and forcing the capitulation of Magnus Ua Máel Sechlainn. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg/180px-Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg/270px-Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg/360px-Hugh_de_Lacy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1408" data-file-height="1662" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Lacy,_Lord_of_Meath" title="Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath">Hugh de Lacy</a>, 1st Lord of Meath</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg/220px-The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg/330px-The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg/440px-The_Pale_According_to_the_Statute_of_1488_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2018" data-file-height="2517" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/The_Pale" title="The Pale">The Pale</a> – According to Statute of 1488</figcaption></figure> <p>Following Mac Murchada's death in May 1171, <a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Clare,_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke" title="Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke">Strongbow</a> succeeded him as <a href="/wiki/King_of_Leinster" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Leinster">King of Leinster</a> and, once again, Magnus joined the High-King's coalition army to oust the Normans, however, their forces were routed during an unsuccessful siege of Dublin. Fearing that Strongbow was growing too powerful and might set up his own independent kingdom in Ireland, <a href="/wiki/Henry_II_of_England" title="Henry II of England">Henry II of England</a> landed in Ireland in October 1171 to establish control over both the Irish and the Normans. Henry's campaign in Ireland was largely successful and he managed to reign in the Normans as well as a few Irish kingdoms which also submitted to him. Most crucially, he retained the city of Dublin, and <a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Lacy,_Lord_of_Meath" title="Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath">Baron Hugh de Lacy</a> was made its bailiff.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKingsford1892_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKingsford1892-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Henry's appointment of de Lacy was intended to act as a counterbalance to Strongbow. However, in order to achieve this, de Lacy would need a strong holding on Irish soil and it was decided that the Kingdom of Meath was to be granted to de Lacy. </p><p>This grant posed an issue for Henry as the previous decade had been a tumultuous time in Meath. There were four rival heirs to the kingship and each claimant held a different part of the kingdom. The strongest claim came from the King of Breifne, <a href="/wiki/Tigern%C3%A1n_Ua_Ruairc" title="Tigernán Ua Ruairc">Tigernán Ua Ruairc</a>, who – through conquest, marriage and an alliance with the church – had subsumed almost all of eastern Meath into his kingdom by the time of the Norman arrival.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strongbow also had nominal claim to Meath as King of Leinster. A war of succession within the <a href="/wiki/Clann_Cholm%C3%A1in" title="Clann Cholmáin">Clann Cholmáin</a> dynasty meant that both Magnus and Art Ua Máel Sechlainn were also vying for the kingship of Meath. To circumvent this problem, Henry defined the borders of Meath as they had been in <a href="/wiki/1153_in_Ireland" title="1153 in Ireland">1153</a> and ignored all subsequent subdivisions. In March 1172 he granted control of Meath to de Lacy on the condition that de Lacy could personally retain the kingdom with near total autonomy if he could conquer it. </p><p>Shortly after Henry left Ireland, Hugh de Lacy invaded Meath, setting up countless <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Motte and bailey">motte and bailey</a> fortifications throughout the kingdom. de Lacy made the ecclesiastic centre of Trim his stronghold, constructing a huge ringwork castle defended by a stout double palisade and external ditch on top of the hill. With de Lacy now at the border of Ua Ruairc's outermost settlement of Kells, a parlay was arranged and the two leaders met on the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Ward" title="Hill of Ward">Hill of Ward</a> for negotiations. During these negotiations, a dispute erupted and de Lacy's men killed Ua Ruairc. Both sides blamed the other, with the <a href="/wiki/Irish_annals" title="Irish annals">Irish annals</a> reporting that Ua Ruairc was "<i>treacherously slain</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-martin99_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-martin99-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1175, de Lacy had conquered the entire territory, executing Magnus Ua Máel Sechlainn that year. He expanded existing settlements into charter towns throughout Meath, including Trim, Athboy, Kells and Navan; and he married <a href="/wiki/Rose_N%C3%AD_Conchobair" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose Ní Conchobair">Rose Ní Conchobair</a>, the High-King's daughter, in order to cement his claim as Lord of Meath. </p><p>Hugh de Lacy died in 1186 and several informal divisions and feuds among de Lacy's descendants over control of the lordship followed over the next century. The Lordship was formally shired in 1297 into the County of Meath.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following this, Meath developed into the largest and wealthiest shire in Ireland, with the eastern portion characterized by well-populated market towns, nucleated villages and a strong commercial focus on labour-intensive <a href="/wiki/Cereal" title="Cereal">cereal</a> cultivation, with one English official noting that Meath was "as well inhabited as any shire in England".<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the <a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Ireland" title="Lordship of Ireland">Lordship of Ireland's</a> judges, barristers and government officials such as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_Ireland" title="Lord Chief Justice of Ireland">Lord Chief Justice of Ireland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Baron_of_the_Irish_Exchequer" title="Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer">Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_Common_Pleas_for_Ireland" title="Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland">Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland</a> hailed from the county. </p><p>Between the 13th and 15th centuries, English power diminished significantly in Ireland for three primary reasons. Firstly, there was a reconsolidation and resurgence in the power of the Irish kingdoms which had been shattered during the Norman invasion. Secondly, the onset of the <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> devastated nucleated settlements such as walled Anglo-Norman towns but had a significantly smaller impact in more sparsely populated Gaelic kingdoms. Lastly, and of most concern to the English crown, the gradual <a href="/wiki/More_Irish_than_the_Irish_themselves" title="More Irish than the Irish themselves">gaelicisation of the Normans</a> meant that many of the most prominent Anglo-Norman families, who were meant to act as England's <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroys</a> in Ireland, no longer followed English laws or customs.<sup id="cite_ref-Kilkenny_1366,_pp.4_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kilkenny_1366,_pp.4-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>English authority continued to retreat eastward until Trim, Athboy and Kells were the outermost settlements of <a href="/wiki/The_Pale" title="The Pale">The Pale</a>, an area centred around <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> where English law was still obeyed. This situation meant that by the 1500s part of County Meath was within the Pale while other areas – which were inhabited by both the Gaelic Irish as well as Normans who were once loyal to the Crown – were now outside the control of the authorities in Dublin.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kingdom_of_Ireland_(1542–1800)"><span id="Kingdom_of_Ireland_.281542.E2.80.931800.29"></span>Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tudor_conquest">Tudor conquest</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Tudor conquest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tudor_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Tudor conquest of Ireland">Tudor conquest of Ireland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg/220px-Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg/330px-Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg/440px-Dunmoe_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_290230.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Tudor-era <a href="/wiki/Dunmoe_Castle" title="Dunmoe Castle">Dunmoe Castle</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">papal bull</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Laudabiliter" title="Laudabiliter">Laudabiliter</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Adrian_IV" title="Pope Adrian IV">Pope Adrian IV</a>, issued in 1155, recognised the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet" title="House of Plantagenet">Angevin</a> monarch as <i>Dominus Hibernae</i> (Latin for "Lord of Ireland"). When <a href="/wiki/Pope_Clement_VII" title="Pope Clement VII">Pope Clement VII</a> excommunicated <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> in 1533, the constitutional position of the lordship in Ireland became uncertain. Following Henry's split with the church, the <a href="/wiki/Tudors" class="mw-redirect" title="Tudors">Tudors</a> heralded the end of monastic Meath. Church Lands which comprised roughly one-third of the county were seized and granted to <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> English statesmen and soldiers as a form of payment. Monasteries were suppressed and their treasures were either looted or scattered by Irish scholars to protect them. <sup id="cite_ref-Kilkenny_1366,_pp.4_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kilkenny_1366,_pp.4-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meath was invaded by <a href="/wiki/T%C3%ADr_Eoghain" title="Tír Eoghain">Tyrone</a> and its allies in 1539 who raided as far south as Navan, which was razed to the ground. King <a href="/wiki/Conn_O%27Neill,_1st_Earl_of_Tyrone" title="Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone">Conn O'Neill</a> had been recognized as "<i>King of our realm in Ireland</i>" by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_III" title="Pope Paul III">Pope Paul III</a> and was encouraged to expel Protestant influence from the island.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the conflict stoked an unexpectedly swift reaction from the typically lethargic Dublin government, and Tyrone was defeated by <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grane" title="Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane">Lord Deputy Grey</a> and forced to sue for peace in 1541. </p><p>Henry had broken away from the Holy See and declared himself the head of the Church in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, and subsequently refused to recognise the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>'s vestigial sovereignty over Ireland. For this reason, and also to address England's waning power in Ireland, Henry proclaimed the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Kingdom of Ireland</a> in 1542, with himself as its monarch. The following year, the <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Meath_and_Westmeath_Act_1543" title="Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543">Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act</a> was passed by the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Ireland" title="Parliament of Ireland">Parliament of Ireland</a> and Meath was officially divided in two. The act was intended to allow a more effective administration in both counties, particularly in Westmeath, which England had lost control of. A new shire town at <a href="/wiki/Mullingar" title="Mullingar">Mullingar</a> was established along with four new <a href="/wiki/Barony_(Ireland)" title="Barony (Ireland)">baronies</a>, while Trim retained its status as the shire town of Meath.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the general loyalty of the "<a href="/wiki/Normans_in_Ireland#"Old_English"_vs._New_English" title="Normans in Ireland">Old English</a>" of Meath to the government in Dublin, the introduction of new <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> English settlers, seen as more reliable by the English government, undermined the power of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy who had remained overwhelmingly Catholic following the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>. Although there was a fervent anti-Catholic sentiment in England at this time, no punitive laws were enacted out of fear that they would provoke further rebellion. However, this changed following England's victory over the Irish kingdoms in the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)" title="Nine Years' War (Ireland)">Nine Years' War</a> in 1603. With Ireland subdued, the English pursued a series of <a href="/wiki/Penal_Laws_against_Irish_Catholics" class="mw-redirect" title="Penal Laws against Irish Catholics">Penal Laws</a> restricting the rights of Catholics, which were accelerated following the <a href="/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" title="Gunpowder Plot">Gunpowder Plot</a> of 1605. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Protestant_Ascendancy">Protestant Ascendancy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Protestant Ascendancy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MANTE(1800)_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg/220px-MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg/330px-MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg/440px-MANTE%281800%29_p3.072_CROMWELL_TAKING_DROGHEDA_-_1649.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2407" data-file-height="1803" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Cromwell</a> shelling <a href="/wiki/Drogheda" title="Drogheda">Drogheda</a> from across the Boyne, 1649</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Battle_of_the_Boyne,_1_July_1690_(by_Jan_Wyck).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg/220px-The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg/330px-The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg/440px-The_Battle_of_the_Boyne%2C_1_July_1690_%28by_Jan_Wyck%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="879" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">Battle of the Boyne</a>, 1690</figcaption></figure> <p>The uneasy peace that had persisted between Catholics and Protestants for several decades unravelled when the anti-Catholic <a href="/wiki/Long_Parliament" title="Long Parliament">Long Parliament</a> gained traction in England in 1640. Fearing further persecution, the dispossessed Irish of <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> went into <a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641" title="Irish Rebellion of 1641">rebellion in 1641</a> to regain the lands they had lost to the <a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster" title="Plantation of Ulster">plantations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exaggerated news of brutal Catholic massacres against Protestants spurred the English into aggressive action, and the peaceful lands of Meath were indiscriminately ransacked by <a href="/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">puritanical</a> armies in retribution. In response, the lords of Meath met at Trim and issued their <a href="/wiki/Remonstrance" title="Remonstrance">remonstrance</a> to <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">King Charles I</a>. Sir John Read was sent to deliver it; however, gripped by anti-Catholic hysteria, officials in Dublin seized Read and tortured him, questioning whether the King and his Catholic wife <a href="/wiki/Henrietta_Maria_of_France" title="Henrietta Maria of France">Henrietta</a> were in league with the Irish rebels. </p><p>As the rebellion intensified, the Ulstermen once again conquered southward into Meath, crushing an English garrison at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Julianstown" title="Battle of Julianstown">Battle of Julianstown</a>. A contingent of Old English lords led by <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Gormanston" title="Viscount Gormanston">Viscount Gormanston</a> rode out to halt their advance. A parlay was arranged at the Hill of Crufty and the Irish, led by <a href="/wiki/Rory_O%27Moore" title="Rory O'Moore">O'Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_O%27Reilly_(Cavan_County_MP)" title="Philip O'Reilly (Cavan County MP)">O'Reilly</a>, met with the Anglo-Norman gentry of Meath. Seeing that they fought for a common cause, the leaders of the two sides embraced amid the acclamation of their followers, and the lords of Meath rode home to rally their forces against the English.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 March 1642 the Catholic hierarchy held a <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> at Kells and almost unanimously agreed that the rebellion was a <a href="/wiki/Just_war_theory" title="Just war theory">just war</a>. They drafted a <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Oath_of_Association" title="Confederate Oath of Association">Confederate Oath of Association</a> in May and Meath lawyer <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Plunkett" title="Nicholas Plunkett">Nicholas Plunkett</a> encouraged Catholic nobles to take up the oath. After the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, an assembly was held in <a href="/wiki/Kilkenny" title="Kilkenny">Kilkenny</a> and the provisional government of <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Ireland" title="Confederate Ireland">Confederate Ireland</a> was established, which took up arms with the <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalists</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarians</a>. The Royalists were crushed by <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>, who then set about ending the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Confederate_Wars" title="Irish Confederate Wars">Irish Confederate Wars</a> by engaging in an unquestionably brutal <a href="/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Cromwellian conquest of Ireland">conquest of Ireland</a>, resulting in the death of up to 40% of the island's population.<sup id="cite_ref-near-genocidal_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-near-genocidal-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the conquest, further Penal Laws were enacted and Catholics were forbidden to hold government office and stripped of their lands under the <a href="/wiki/Down_Survey" title="Down Survey">Down Survey</a>. Former aristocratic families were forced to send their children abroad for education to Irish seminaries in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">France</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a>. The "New English" along with those who had converted to Anglicanism occupied the Parliament, becoming what would later be termed the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Ascendancy" title="Protestant Ascendancy">Protestant Ascendancy</a>. This period also saw an influx of <a href="/wiki/Huguenots" title="Huguenots">Huguenots</a> into Meath, and surnames such as Beaufort and Metge appeared in the county for the first time. </p><p>Some Old English families were able to recover their lands and return to Meath following the restoration of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">King James II</a>. Although James did little to improve the overall situation of Irish Catholics, he was backed by them during the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>, while Protestants overwhelmingly backed <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William of Orange</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Williamite_War_in_Ireland" title="Williamite War in Ireland">Williamite War in Ireland</a>. The defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Jacobitism" title="Jacobitism">Jacobites</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">Battle of the Boyne</a> in July 1690 forced James to flee to France, ending the prospect of an autonomous Irish kingdom. This battle is seen as a seminal event in Irish history and is still <a href="/wiki/The_Twelfth" title="The Twelfth">celebrated</a> every year by <a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" title="Unionism in Ireland">Ulster Unionists</a>. </p><p>Towards the end of the 18th century the Penal Laws were relaxed and Catholic merchant families such as <a href="/wiki/Fay_(surname)" title="Fay (surname)">Fay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Connolly_(surname)" title="Connolly (surname)">Connolly</a> were granted trading privileges in Trim and Navan. Celebrated Meath sculptor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Smyth_(sculptor)" title="Edward Smyth (sculptor)">Edward Smyth</a> was commissioned by Catholics in Navan to produce a crucifix for the town's new chapel in 1792, which is still located in the church to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-History_of_Meath_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History_of_Meath-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As sectarian tensions eased, liberal ideas began to spread among members of the Protestant Ascendancy, such as <a href="/wiki/Wolfe_Tone" title="Wolfe Tone">Wolfe Tone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Grattan" title="Henry Grattan">Henry Grattan</a>, and many came to see themselves as citizens of an Irish nation and championed <a href="/wiki/Catholic_emancipation" title="Catholic emancipation">Catholic emancipation</a>. Ireland briefly secured parliamentary independence through the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_1782" title="Constitution of 1782">Constitution of 1782</a> which ushered in Ireland's first economic boom in centuries, as trade flourished and the population grew exponentially. However, these freedoms were abruptly ended with the <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Union_1800" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Union 1800">Act of Union 1800</a>, when Ireland was subsumed into the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg/190px-Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg/285px-Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Thomas-Brennan-Land-League.jpg 2x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="470" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brennan_(Irish_Land_League)" title="Thomas Brennan (Irish Land League)">Thomas Brennan</a>, co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League" title="Irish National Land League">Irish National Land League</a> in 1879.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg/220px-Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg/330px-Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg/440px-Dunshaughlin_Workhouse-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>At least 1,000 victims of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Great Famine</a> (1845–49) are buried in a <a href="/wiki/Mass_grave" title="Mass grave">mass grave</a> near the Dunshaughlin Workhouse</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Athboy,_Co._Meath_(28686693144).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg/220px-Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg/330px-Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg/440px-Athboy%2C_Co._Meath_%2828686693144%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1308" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Farmers%27_market" title="Farmers' market">Farmers' market</a> in <a href="/wiki/Athboy" title="Athboy">Athboy</a>, ca. 1890</figcaption></figure> <p>The economic boom of the late 18th century came to a sudden and catastrophic halt following the end of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> in 1815. During the war, Ireland had become known as the "<i>Food larder of Europe</i>", and the tenant farmers and landlords of Meath relied heavily on <a href="/wiki/Tillage" title="Tillage">tillage</a>, which fetched an artificially high price due to a surge in wartime demand. Further, a substantial number of Irish soldiers who comprised as much as 25% of the entire <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Navy</a> during the war were now made redundant. As post-war trade between Britain and Europe recovered, demand for Irish tillage collapsed; however, rents remained the same and the population continued to boom. As economic stagnation set in, the once well-managed, prosperous estates of Meath gave way to mismanagement and <a href="/wiki/Absentee_landlord" title="Absentee landlord">absenteeism</a>, and the tenant farmers were pushed further into poverty.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This dire economic state resulted in a surge of <a href="/wiki/Irish_nationalism" title="Irish nationalism">Irish nationalism</a> and demands to repeal the disastrous Act of Union. Nationalist sentiment was widespread in Meath, as reflected in the <a href="/wiki/Meath_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Meath (UK Parliament constituency)">Meath Parliamentary constituency</a>, which returned several of 19th century Ireland's most prominent nationalist politicians, including <a href="/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell" title="Daniel O'Connell">Daniel O'Connell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell" title="Charles Stewart Parnell">Charles Stewart Parnell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Davitt" title="Michael Davitt">Michael Davitt</a>. Owing to its symbolic place in the national psyche, Daniel O'Connell held a rally on the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Hill of Tara</a> in August 1843 which was attended by between 500,000 and 1 million people, making it one of the largest crowd gatherings in Irish history.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To address rising poverty and growing unrest in Ireland, the British government set up <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">workhouses</a> in the 1830s and began constructing <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Ireland" title="Rail transport in Ireland">railroads</a>. However, these efforts were largely unsuccessful and the impoverished of Meath, pushed to the brink by high rents and mass unemployment, were wiped out by the <a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Great Famine</a> of 1845–49. Having reached over 183,000 in 1841, the population of Meath would fall to 67,000 by 1900. The famine had a lasting cultural, societal and linguistic effect on the county. Pre-famine census records show that Meath had been a region with an "<i>undoubted Irish speaking majority</i>",<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by the late 1800s the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a> was virtually extinct within the county. The famine-era workhouse and mass grave at Dunshaughlin is today a memorial to its victims. </p><p>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. The Protestant Ascendancy went into steep decline following the famine and many landholders were effectively bankrupt, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Ad_hoc" title="Ad hoc">ad hoc</a> sale of lands to unproductive use. The push for reform escalated in the 1870s into a period of sporadic violence and civil unrest known as the <a href="/wiki/Land_War" title="Land War">Land Wars</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brennan_(Irish_Land_League)" title="Thomas Brennan (Irish Land League)">Thomas Brennan</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Furze" title="Yellow Furze">Yellow Furze</a>, co-founded the <a href="/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League" title="Irish National Land League">Irish National Land League</a> in 1879 alongside Michael Davitt. His staunch <a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">republicanism</a> and socialist leanings put him at odds with the League's executive, and he was excluded from the <a href="/wiki/Irish_National_League" title="Irish National League">Irish National League</a> set up by Parnell in 1882. Brennan moved to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and raised money for the republican cause, advocating total Irish independence as opposed to <a href="/wiki/Home_Rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Rule">Home Rule</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Irish-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish-American">Irish-American</a> diaspora.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This revealed an ideological divide within the nationalist movement, between those who favoured greater legislative independence under the British crown, as had been achieved in the 1780s, and those who advocated for completely severing ties with the United Kingdom. </p><p>Some of the political reforms desired by the nationalists were finally realised under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government Act of 1898</a>. The act set up urban and rural districts as well as county councils to take over local government from landlords. Under the reforms, small sub-councils and boroughs were abolished and <a href="/wiki/Meath_County_Council" title="Meath County Council">Meath County Council</a> was granted full control over the jurisdiction. The council sat at Navan, which became the new <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of Meath, ending Trim's 600-year status as Meath's shire town.<sup id="cite_ref-beckett_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beckett-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gailey_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gailey-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Laytown_(7675101354).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg/220px-Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg/330px-Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg/440px-Laytown_%287675101354%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1391" /></a><figcaption>Crowds disembark for the <a href="/wiki/Laytown_Racecourse" title="Laytown Racecourse">Laytown races</a>, 1910</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15,_1924.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg/220px-Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg/330px-Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg/440px-Fireworks_at_the_First_Tailteann_Games_August_15%2C_1924.jpg 2x" data-file-width="827" data-file-height="562" /></a><figcaption>First modern revival of Ancient Meath's <a href="/wiki/Tailteann_Games_(ancient)" title="Tailteann Games (ancient)">Tailteann Games</a>, 1924</figcaption></figure> <p>The reforms proposed by the UK government failed to stem the rising tide of nationalism, which spilled over into the 20th century as the <a href="/wiki/1916_Easter_Rising" class="mw-redirect" title="1916 Easter Rising">1916 Easter Rising</a>. The Battle of Ashbourne was one of the few skirmishes which took place outside of Dublin during the rising and was its sole success. On 28 April 1916, members of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Volunteers" title="Irish Volunteers">Dublin Volunteers</a> Fifth (<a href="/wiki/Fingal" title="Fingal">Fingal</a>) battalion, led by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ashe" title="Thomas Ashe">Thomas Ashe</a>, surrounded a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Constabulary" title="Royal Irish Constabulary">Royal Irish Constabulary</a> (RIC) police station in <a href="/wiki/Ashbourne,_County_Meath" title="Ashbourne, County Meath">Ashbourne</a> and demanded their surrender. RIC reinforcements were dispatched from Navan and upon arriving at the scene a firefight ensued during which 8 RIC members were killed and 15 wounded, forcing them to retreat. On the orders of <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Pearse" title="Patrick Pearse">Patrick Pearse</a>, Ashe and his battalion surrendered the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meath's <a href="/wiki/Eamonn_Duggan" title="Eamonn Duggan">Eamonn Duggan</a> served as the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919%E2%80%931922)" title="Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)">IRA's</a> director of intelligence during and after the rising and was a signatory of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Irish treaty">Anglo-Irish treaty</a> in 1921. Meath largely sided with the pro-treaty forces during the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Civil_War" title="Irish Civil War">Civil War</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Louth%E2%80%93Meath_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Louth–Meath (Dáil constituency)">Louth–Meath constituency</a> returning one anti-treaty and four pro-treaty <a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">TDs</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1922_Irish_general_election" title="1922 Irish general election">1922 general election</a>. Duggan later joined <a href="/wiki/Cumann_na_nGaedheal" title="Cumann na nGaedheal">Cumann na nGaedheal</a> and held various ministerial offices until his death in 1936. Following independence, various government-backed <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_revival" title="Gaelic revival">Gaelic revival</a> efforts were centred on the county and its history, including the foundation of 5 <a href="/wiki/Gaeltacht" title="Gaeltacht">Gaeltacht</a> areas within Meath, and the symbolic hosting of the <a href="/wiki/Tailteann_Games_(ancient)" title="Tailteann Games (ancient)">Tailteann Games</a>. </p><p>The declining population of Meath gradually stabilised as emigration balanced with high natural birth rates. Outward migration from the county remained substantial until the reforms of <a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Lemass" title="Seán Lemass">Seán Lemass</a> in the 1960s strengthened industry by injecting capital into the economy and abandoning the policy of <a href="/wiki/Autarky" title="Autarky">autarky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These reforms, coupled with <a href="/wiki/EEC" class="mw-redirect" title="EEC">EEC</a> membership in 1973, brought jobs and investment into the county, and the extraction and textile industries prospered. By the 1971 census, Meath's population had surpassed 70,000 for the first time in eighty years. Despite a <a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland#1980_to_early_1990s" title="Economic history of the Republic of Ireland">severe recession</a> in the 1980s, the growth of Meath's economy and population became exponential in the late 1990s and early 2000s during the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Tiger" title="Celtic Tiger">Celtic Tiger</a> era. </p><p>As places such as Trim, Navan and Kells developed into major commuter towns of Dublin, the county grew increasingly reliant on the <a href="/wiki/Overheating_(economics)" title="Overheating (economics)">overheated</a> construction sector, leaving Meath hard-hit by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_property_bubble" title="Irish property bubble">property collapse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_banking_crisis" title="Post-2008 Irish banking crisis">2008</a>. From 2014 onward, the economy experienced a robust recovery, and by 2016 Meath had the third lowest unemployment rate in Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meath surpassed its pre-famine population in 2011, becoming one of only five counties in the State to do so. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_interest">Places of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Places of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Irelands_history.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Irelands_history.jpg/220px-Irelands_history.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Irelands_history.jpg/330px-Irelands_history.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Irelands_history.jpg/440px-Irelands_history.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Newgrange" title="Newgrange">Newgrange</a>, c. 3,200 BC.</figcaption></figure> <p>As a consequence of its location in the centre of Ireland, Meath has an abundance of historic sites. </p><p>All periods of Irish history are represented in the landmarks of the county, spanning from the prehistoric tombs at <a href="/wiki/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne" title="Brú na Bóinne">Brú na Bóinne</a>, the early Christian monasteries at Kells and Bective, the Norman-era fortifications at Trim and Dunmoe, the manor houses and estates of the 17th and 18th centuries such as those at Bellinter and Slane, the famine-era workhouse and graveyard at Dunshaughlin, all the way up to the Battle of Ashbourne historic site, which commemorates the sole victory of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Volunteers" title="Irish Volunteers">Irish Volunteers</a> during the <a href="/wiki/1916_Easter_Rising" class="mw-redirect" title="1916 Easter Rising">1916 Easter Rising</a>. </p><p>In terms of natural attractions, the county has a relatively tame landscape compared to other parts of Ireland, with no mountains, a short coastline and generally little forest cover. There are however a number of <a href="/wiki/National_Parks_and_Wildlife_Service_(Ireland)" title="National Parks and Wildlife Service (Ireland)">National Parks and Wildlife Service</a> (NPWS) protected sites within the county. The River Nanny Estuary & Shore and the River Boyne & River Blackwater are listed as <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Areas</a>. </p><p>Additionally, all bogs within the county; those being Mount Hevey, Girley, Killyconny, Molerick and Jamestown are listed as either <a href="/wiki/Special_Area_of_Conservation" title="Special Area of Conservation">Special Areas of Conservation</a> or <a href="/wiki/Natural_Heritage_Area" title="Natural Heritage Area">Natural Heritage Areas</a>. Lough Bane, Lough Glass, White Lough, Ben Loughs and Lough Doo are all also protected by the NPWS. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Monuments_in_County_Meath" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Monuments in County Meath">List of National Monuments in County Meath</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2013_at_Slane_Castle_(8647010098).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg/220px-2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg/330px-2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg/440px-2013_at_Slane_Castle_%288647010098%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2641" data-file-height="1855" /></a><figcaption>18th century <a href="/wiki/Slane_Castle" title="Slane Castle">Slane Castle</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gormanston_Castle,_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg/220px-Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg/330px-Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg/440px-Gormanston_Castle%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_578384.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>19th century <a href="/wiki/Gormanston_College" title="Gormanston College">Gormanston Castle</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 28em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athcarne_Castle" title="Athcarne Castle">Athcarne Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athlumney_Castle" title="Athlumney Castle">Athlumney Castle</a></li> <li>Ballinlough Castle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">Battle of the Boyne</a> Visitor Centre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bective_Abbey" title="Bective Abbey">Bective Abbey</a></li> <li>Bellinter House</li> <li>Boyne Hill Estate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clonard_Abbey" title="Clonard Abbey">Clonard Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dangan_Castle" title="Dangan Castle">Dangan Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dardistown_Castle" title="Dardistown Castle">Dardistown Castle</a></li> <li>Donaghmore Round Tower</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowth" title="Dowth">Dowth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunsany_Castle_and_Demesne" title="Dunsany Castle and Demesne">Dunsany Castle and Demesne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunmoe_Castle" title="Dunmoe Castle">Dunmoe Castle</a></li> <li>Dunshaughlin Famine Workhouse</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairyhouse_Racecourse" title="Fairyhouse Racecourse">Fairyhouse Racecourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourknocks_Passage_Tomb" title="Fourknocks Passage Tomb">Fourknocks Passage Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gormanston_College" title="Gormanston College">Gormanston Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Slane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill of Slane">Hill of Slane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Tara" title="Hill of Tara">Hill of Tara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Ward" title="Hill of Ward">Hill of Ward</a></li> <li>Irish Military War Museum</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Kells" title="Abbey of Kells">Kells Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killeen_Castle,_Dunsany" title="Killeen Castle, Dunsany">Killeen Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knowth" title="Knowth">Knowth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loughcrew" title="Loughcrew">Loughcrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newgrange" title="Newgrange">Newgrange</a></li> <li>Oldcastle <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> <a href="/wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp" title="Prisoner-of-war camp">POW Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertstown_Castle" title="Robertstown Castle">Robertstown Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Abbey,_Trim" title="St. Mary's Abbey, Trim">St. Mary's Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skryne_Castle" title="Skryne Castle">Skryne Castle</a></li> <li>Skryne Monastic Site</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slane_Castle" title="Slane Castle">Slane Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spire_of_Lloyd" title="Spire of Lloyd">Spire of Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tailteann_Games_(ancient)" title="Tailteann Games (ancient)">Tailteann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tattersalls" title="Tattersalls">Tattersalls</a> Country House</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trim_Castle" title="Trim Castle">Trim Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trim_Cathedral" title="Trim Cathedral">Trim Cathedral</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natural_attractions">Natural attractions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Natural attractions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dardistown_Bridge,_Cooper_Hill,_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg/220px-Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg/330px-Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg/440px-Dardistown_Bridge%2C_Cooper_Hill%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="510" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Nanny_(river)" title="Nanny (river)">Nanny River</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 28em;"> <ul><li>Balrath Woods</li> <li>Bettystown Beach</li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Boyne" title="River Boyne">Boyne Valley</a></li> <li>Girley Bog</li> <li>Grove Gardens</li> <li>Jamestown Bog</li> <li>Killyconny Bog</li> <li>Larchill Arcadian Gardens</li> <li>Loughs of the Upper Boyne Valley</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leinster_Blackwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Leinster Blackwater">Leinster Blackwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lough_Sheelin" title="Lough Sheelin">Lough Sheelin</a></li> <li>Loughcrew Historic Gardens</li> <li>Molerick Bog</li> <li>Mount Hevey Bog</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanny_(river)" title="Nanny (river)">Nanny Estuary</a></li> <li>Rathbeggan Lakes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slieve_na_Calliagh" title="Slieve na Calliagh">Slieve na Calliagh</a></li> <li>Sonairte National Ecology Centre</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale collapsible collapsed" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1841</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">183,828</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1851</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">140,748</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−23.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1861</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">110,373</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−21.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1871</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">95,558</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−13.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1881</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">87,469</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−8.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1891</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">76,987</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−12.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1901</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">67,497</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−12.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1911</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">65,091</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1926</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">62,969</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1936</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">61,405</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−2.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1946</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">66,232</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1951</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">66,337</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1956</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">66,762</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1961</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">65,122</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1966</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">67,323</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+3.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1971</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">71,729</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1979</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">90,715</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+26.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1981</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">95,419</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1986</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">103,881</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+8.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1991</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">105,370</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+1.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1996</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">109,732</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2002</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">134,005</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+22.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2006</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">162,831</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+21.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2011</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">184,135</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+13.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2016</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">195,044</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+5.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2022</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">220,826</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+13.2%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left"><sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Meath had a population of 220,826 according to the <a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022 Census</a>; an increase of 25,252 (+13.2 percent) since the <a href="/wiki/2016_census_of_Ireland" title="2016 census of Ireland">2016 census of Ireland</a>, making it the second fastest growing county in Ireland, after <a href="/wiki/County_Longford" title="County Longford">County Longford</a>. Population growth from 2016 to 2022 included a natural increase of 3,558 people (+1.62 percent) since the last census, coupled with an increase of 22,078 people (10.0%) due to net <a href="/wiki/Human_migration" title="Human migration">migration</a> into the county. Immigration from people born outside of the Republic of Ireland resulted in a net increase of 10,687 people. Migration of those from other Irish counties, primarily from neighbouring <a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">County Dublin</a>, produced a net increase of 11,391 people. Owing to its proximity to <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, Meath is the least indigenous county in Ireland, with just 71,356 usual residents (32.4 percent) recorded as being born within the county. Just under half of all Meath residents (49.2 percent) were born elsewhere in the State, and the remaining 18.3 percent were born abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county's population density was 94 people/km2 in 2022, making it one of just 8 counties in Ireland with a population density above the all-island average density of 83.5 people/km2. </p><p>In 2022, 6.4 per cent of the county's population was reported as younger than 5 years old, 23.5 per cent were between 5 and 19, 57.8 per cent were between 20 and 65, and 12.3 per cent of the population was older than 65. 5,661 people (2.6 per cent) were over the age of 80. Across all age groups, there was a roughly even split between females (50.2 per cent) and males (49.8 per cent).<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, there were 2,847 births within the county, and the average age of a first time mother was 31.6 years.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_trends">Population trends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Population trends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png/220px-Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png/330px-Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png/440px-Population_Graph_of_Meath_1841-2016.png 2x" data-file-width="636" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption>Graph showing the population change in Meath 1841–2022</figcaption></figure> <p>The population of Meath suffered a significant decline between 1841 and 1901, decreasing by almost two-thirds (183,828 to 67,497); it stabilised between 1901 and 1971 (67,497 to 71,729), and there was a substantial increase between 1971 and 1981 to 95,419. This increase was mainly due to a baby boom locally. The population then continued to increase at a constant rate, before increasing at an explosive rate between 1996 and 2002, from 109,732 to 134,005. This is due primarily to economic factors, with the return of residents to live in the county, and also an echo effect of the 1970s baby boom. The census of 2022 gives a figure of 220,296, including a dramatic increase in inward migration to the county. Meath is one of only 5 counties in the state which has a population higher than its <a href="/wiki/1841_census_of_Ireland" title="1841 census of Ireland">1841 pre-famine peak</a>. </p><p>This population growth has seen divergent trends emerge in recent years, with mild depopulation in the north and west of the county more than offset by large increases in the population of the eastern and south-eastern parts of the county, principally owing to inward migration to districts that have good proximity via road to the business parks on the western outskirts of Dublin. The accession of <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic States">Baltic States</a> to the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> in 2004 resulted in a significant influx of workers from these countries to work in sectors such as agriculture, quarrying, construction and catering.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Migration">Migration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Migration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The five largest foreign national groups in Meath are: <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Polish</a> (2.2 percent), <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a> (1.9 percent), <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanian</a> (1.6 percent), <a href="/wiki/Lithuanians" title="Lithuanians">Lithuanian</a> (1.3 percent), <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> (0.6 percent), <a href="/wiki/Latvians" title="Latvians">Latvian</a> (0.6 percent), and <a href="/wiki/Nigerians" title="Nigerians">Nigerian</a> (0.6 percent). </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Foreign citizenship by country, 2022<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> </th> <th><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Citizenship <br /> <small>(Country only)</small> </td> <td>3,933 </td> <td>2,756 </td> <td>3,170 </td> <td>3,030 </td> <td>312 </td> <td>1,082 </td> <td>476 </td> <td>834 </td> <td>925 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Citizenship <br /> <small>(Dual Irish-Country)</small> </td> <td>903 </td> <td>1,042 </td> <td>525 </td> <td>190 </td> <td>1,091 </td> <td>183 </td> <td>552 </td> <td>152 </td> <td>57 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Combined Population (2022) </td> <td>4,836 </td> <td>3,798 </td> <td>3,695 </td> <td>3,220 </td> <td>1,403 </td> <td>1,265 </td> <td>1,028 </td> <td>986 </td> <td>982 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnicity">Ethnicity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Ethnicity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2022, the racial composition of the county was:<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>89.9% <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">White</a> (78.7% White Irish, 10.7% Other White Background, 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Irish_Traveler" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Traveler">Irish Traveler</a>)</li> <li>2.6% <a href="/wiki/Asian_people" title="Asian people">Asian</a></li> <li>1.8% <a href="/wiki/Black_people_in_Ireland" title="Black people in Ireland">Black</a></li> <li>1.9% Others including mixed</li> <li>3.8% Not stated</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religion in Meath (2022)</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:72.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">72.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">No religion</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:black; width:13.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">13.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Other Christian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:7.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">7.3%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:green; width:1.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:0.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other stated religions</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:yellow; width:0.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Not Stated</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:grey; width:4.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.3%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p>According to the 2022 Census, published by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Statistics_Office_(Ireland)" title="Central Statistics Office (Ireland)">Central Statistics Office</a>, 82.6% of County Meath's residents identify with a religion. 80.0% affiliate with Christianity and its various denominations, and the other 2.6% are adherents of non-Christian religions. The remaining 13.1% have no religion, with 4.3% of people not stating their religion. </p><p>The largest denominations by number of adherents in 2022 were the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> with 159,410; followed <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christianity</a> with 6,512; the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> and <a href="/wiki/Episcopalian" class="mw-redirect" title="Episcopalian">Episcopalian</a> with 4,446; and all other Christian denominations including <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a> with 5,176 adherents. Among the non-Christian denominations, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Muslims</a> are by far the largest group, with 3,153 adherents, followed by <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> with 881 and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> with 330. Additionally, 9,495 people did not state their religion.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Trim_Cathedral" title="Trim Cathedral">Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Trim</a> was the seat of the former Diocese of Meath, which is now the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Meath_and_Kildare" title="Diocese of Meath and Kildare">Diocese of Meath and Kildare</a> in the Church of Ireland. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Meath" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath">Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath</a> has its seat at <a href="/wiki/Mullingar" title="Mullingar">Mullingar</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Westmeath" title="County Westmeath">County Westmeath</a>. A former cathedral was located at <a href="/wiki/Clonard_Abbey" title="Clonard Abbey">Clonard Abbey</a>, however, it was destroyed by fire in 1206. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Deenihan" title="Thomas Deenihan">Thomas Deenihan</a> is the current <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Meath" title="Bishop of Meath">Bishop of Meath</a>. The county's largest Presbyterian church is located in Kells, and the Navan Muslim Community Centre, which is primarily used as a mosque, is located on Kennedy Road in Navan. </p><p>Continuing the trend which has been observed throughout Ireland since the Census of 2006, a significant increase in the number of people who identified as having no religion was observed in the 2022 census. This demographic has increased by 260% since 2011, from 7,990 to 28,771. People with no religion now account for 13.1% of the county's population, up from 8.1% in 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Irish_language">Irish language</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Irish language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg/200px-Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg/300px-Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg/400px-Giving_way_to_Irish_in_the_Baile_Ghib_Gaeltacht_-_geograph.org.uk_-_704757.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Irish-language road sign on a road junction in the southeast of Baile Ghib</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png/220px-Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png/330px-Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png/440px-Meath_Gaeltacht_Areas.png 2x" data-file-width="3112" data-file-height="2480" /></a><figcaption>Gaeltacht Areas (Green) within County Meath.</figcaption></figure> <p>Meath contains <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster's</a> only <a href="/wiki/Gaeltacht" title="Gaeltacht">Gaeltacht</a> areas, at <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1th_Chairn" title="Ráth Chairn">Ráth Chairn</a>, close to <a href="/wiki/Athboy" title="Athboy">Athboy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Baile_Ghib" title="Baile Ghib">Baile Ghib</a>, located northwest of Navan. With a combined area of 44  km<sup>2</sup>, they are the two smallest Gaeltachts in Ireland. As of 2022, there were 2,093 people living within the Meath Gaeltacht areas, of which 1,179 (56.3 percent) stated that they were Irish speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike the Gaeltachts of the west of Ireland, the Meath Gaeltachts are the result of a government <a href="/wiki/Gaelicisation" title="Gaelicisation">gaelicisation</a> scheme to reintroduce the Irish language to the east of the country. In total, 5 Irish-speaking settlements were set up in Meath between 1935 and 1939 – Ráth Chairn, Baile Ghib, Cill Bhríde, Cluain an Ghaill and Baile Ailin. They were established on fertile land which had been allowed to fall into disrepair by <a href="/wiki/Absentee_landlords" class="mw-redirect" title="Absentee landlords">absentee landlords</a> and was consequently repossessed by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Land_Commission" title="Irish Land Commission">Irish Land Commission</a>. In total, 122 Irish-speaking families moved to the county. They were primarily from <a href="/wiki/Connemara" title="Connemara">Connemara</a>, but some families were also from <a href="/wiki/County_Kerry" title="County Kerry">County Kerry</a>. </p><p>Over the years Cill Bhríde was subsumed into Ráth Chairn, and Cluain an Ghaill was subsumed into Baile Ghib. The fifth and final Gaeltacht to be set up – Baile Ailin – failed after a generation, as several Irish-speaking families moved away and day-to-day use of the Irish language failed to take hold amongst the children of those who remained. The two surviving settlements were officially recognised as Gaeltacht areas in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2022 Census, 39.8 per cent of Meath residents were able to speak Irish, up from 38.6 percent in 2016. Of that, there were 2,594 <i>Gaeilgeoirí</i> (people who speak Irish everyday outside of the education system) in County Meath.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, 27,566 people stated that they speak Irish daily within the education system only. The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Dublin_Area" title="Greater Dublin Area">Greater Dublin Area</a> has the highest number of Irish-medium schools in Ireland, and there are seven <a href="/wiki/Gaelscoil" title="Gaelscoil">Gaelscoileanna</a> outside the Gaeltacht areas within Meath.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urban_areas">Urban areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Urban areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Navan is the county town and by far the largest settlement in Meath. It is also the <a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland">4th largest town</a> in the state, excluding <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_Ireland" title="City status in Ireland">cities</a>. </p><p>Meath is predominantly an urban county, although a large percentage of its residents live in rural areas. According to the 2022 Census, 56 percent of the county lived in urban areas, and the remaining 44 percent lived in rural areas. Just over half of the county's population (52.1 percent) live in the ten largest towns. Historically, the largest towns in Meath were located in the north and west of the county, such as Trim, Navan and Kells. However, in recent years settlements in the south and east of the county such as Ashbourne, Dunboyne, and the coastal agglomeration of <a href="/wiki/Bettystown" title="Bettystown">Bettystown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laytown" title="Laytown">Laytown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mornington,_County_Meath" title="Mornington, County Meath">Mornington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donacarney" title="Donacarney">Donacarney</a> have expanded significantly, and the majority of the county's fastest growing towns are now located in these areas. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1219497266">.mw-parser-output .largestCities-table-background{background:#f9f9f9;color:#222}.mw-parser-output .largestCities-cell-background{background:#f0f0f0;color:#222}</style> </p> <div> <table style="font-size:88%;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%; border: 1px solid darkgray;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10" style="padding:0.3em 0.75em;"><div style="float:right; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div><div style="float:left; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div> <div style="height:2.6em;line-height:1.3em;"><span style="font-size:110%;">Largest cities or towns in Meath (Census 2022)</span><br /><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal;">Source:<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div> </th></tr> <tr> <th></th> <th>Rank </th> <th> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_constituencies" title="Dáil constituencies">Constituency</a> </th> <th>Pop. </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MarketSquareNavan.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Navan"><img alt="Navan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MarketSquareNavan.JPG/120px-MarketSquareNavan.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MarketSquareNavan.JPG/180px-MarketSquareNavan.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MarketSquareNavan.JPG/240px-MarketSquareNavan.JPG 2x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="240" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Navan" title="Navan">Navan</a><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ashbourne"><img alt="Ashbourne" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg/120px-New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg/180px-New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg/240px-New_Shopping_District_Ashbourne_2006-4-30.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1440" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ashbourne,_County_Meath" title="Ashbourne, County Meath">Ashbourne</a> </td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Navan" title="Navan">Navan</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">33,886 </td> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Neptune_Hotel,_Bettystown.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney"><img alt="Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg/120px-Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg/180px-Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg/240px-Neptune_Hotel%2C_Bettystown.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Laytown%E2%80%93Bettystown%E2%80%93Mornington%E2%80%93Donacarney" title="Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney">Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney</a><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ratoath"><img alt="Ratoath" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg/120px-Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg/180px-Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg/240px-Ratoath_-_Holy_Trinity_church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ratoath" title="Ratoath">Ratoath</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ashbourne,_County_Meath" title="Ashbourne, County Meath">Ashbourne</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">15,680 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Laytown%E2%80%93Bettystown%E2%80%93Mornington%E2%80%93Donacarney" title="Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney">Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Louth_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Louth (Dáil constituency)">Louth</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">15,642 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ratoath" title="Ratoath">Ratoath</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,077 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Trim,_County_Meath" title="Trim, County Meath">Trim</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,563 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">6</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Drogheda" title="Drogheda">Drogheda (Southern Environs)</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Louth_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Louth (Dáil constituency)">Louth</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,145 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dunboyne" title="Dunboyne">Dunboyne</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,155 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dunshaughlin" title="Dunshaughlin">Dunshaughlin</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,644 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">9</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kells,_County_Meath" title="Kells, County Meath">Kells</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_West_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath West (Dáil constituency)">Meath West</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,608 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Duleek" title="Duleek">Duleek</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Meath_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Meath East (Dáil constituency)">Meath East</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,899 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Central_Statistics_Office_(Ireland)" title="Central Statistics Office (Ireland)">Central Statistics Office</a> estimates that Meath's Total Household Income in 2017 was €5.253 billion, ranking 6th among Irish counties. Meath also ranks 6th in the country by per capita disposable income, at €20,493 or 95.8% of the State average.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meath residents are also the 6th highest per capita tax contributors to the State, returning a total of €1.311 billion in taxes in 2017 – roughly equivalent to the entire <a href="/wiki/Midland_Region,_Ireland" title="Midland Region, Ireland">Midlands Region</a>. Major industries include services, retail, agriculture and food processing, mining, manufacturing and tourism. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Services,_retail_and_hospitality"><span id="Services.2C_retail_and_hospitality"></span>Services, retail and hospitality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Services, retail and hospitality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg/220px-C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg/330px-C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg/440px-C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster_Arial_View.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4335" data-file-height="2276" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_C%C3%BA_Chulainn_Coaster" title="The Cú Chulainn Coaster">Cú Chulainn</a></i>, Ireland's biggest rollercoaster</figcaption></figure> <p>Services, retail and the hospitality industry are the primary employers in the county. Navan was historically a manufacturing town, and involved in the household goods sector. Navan was also a centre in the Irish carpet-making industry, before this was lost to overseas competition.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tourism benefits from the abundance of historically important pre-historic and early Christian sites, as well as castles and manor houses within the county, many of which are currently in use as hotels. Due to its rich history, Meath is marketed by <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1ilte_Ireland" title="Fáilte Ireland">Fáilte Ireland</a>, the country's national tourism agency, as "Ireland's Heritage Capital". Good local infrastructure means that most of Meath's tourist attractions are located within a one-and-a-half-hour drive from <a href="/wiki/Dublin_Airport" title="Dublin Airport">Dublin Airport</a>. Despite this, Meath received just 162,000 overseas tourists in 2017 – placing it 17th out of 26 counties.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tourism is worth in excess of €50 million to the local economy each year. </p><p>In addition to historic attractions, Meath is home to scenic lakes, beaches, wooded areas and several European-designated areas of ecological significance. The only permanent amusement park in Ireland is <a href="/wiki/Emerald_Park" title="Emerald Park">Emerald Park</a>, located in Ashbourne, which has 3 roller coasters, including <i>Cú Chulainn</i>, Ireland's largest roller-coaster. </p><p>Meath also has a growing science and biotechnology field. In 2018, <a href="/wiki/Shire_(pharmaceutical_company)" title="Shire (pharmaceutical company)">Shire</a>, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, opened a €350 million international disease research centre in Dunboyne, which was sold to <a href="/wiki/Merck_%26_Co." title="Merck & Co.">Merck & Co.</a> in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg/220px-Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg/330px-Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg/440px-Silage_Harvesting_Cadamstown.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1448" data-file-height="972" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Silage" title="Silage">Silage</a> harvesting in <a href="/wiki/Clonard,_County_Meath" title="Clonard, County Meath">Clonard</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The agricultural products of the county are <a href="/wiki/Beef" title="Beef">beef</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pork" title="Pork">pork</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dairy" title="Dairy">dairy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poultry" title="Poultry">poultry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vegetables" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegetables">vegetables</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cereals" class="mw-redirect" title="Cereals">cereals</a>. Meath has a strong farming tradition and up until the <a href="/wiki/Census_of_Ireland,_1911" class="mw-redirect" title="Census of Ireland, 1911">1911 Census</a> the most commonly listed occupation in the county was <a href="/wiki/Farmworker" title="Farmworker">farm labourer</a>. Meath is ranked 2nd in the country for the production of vegetables and 2nd for the production of <a href="/wiki/Rapeseed" title="Rapeseed">rapeseed oil</a>. </p><p>As of 2018, Meath has the country's 8th largest cattle herd with 275,301 cows. Dairy production was the largest and most profitable agricultural sector in the county and 63.7% of all cattle were <a href="/wiki/Dairy_cattle" title="Dairy cattle">dairy cows</a>. The remaining 36.3% were <a href="/wiki/Beef_cattle" title="Beef cattle">beef cattle</a>. The county also has Ireland's 9th largest sheep herd (150,571 sheep) and 14th largest pig herd (40,259).<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meat processors such as Kepak and Dawn Meats are large employers within the county. </p><p>There are 4,620 farms in the county, with a total farmed area of 194,886 ha (481,574 acres), accounting for 83% of land area. Of this, 31,201 ha (77,099 acres) was under tillage, the 3rd highest in the country. Although Irish agriculture is heavily dominated by <a href="/wiki/Pasture" title="Pasture">pasture</a> farming, Meath's favourable climate and easterly location give it a much greater capacity than most counties for agricultural diversification, reflected in its robust tillage and vegetable production sectors. The average size of a farm in the county is 42 ha (104 acres), well above the national average of 31 ha (77 acres). </p><p>Agriculture supports thousands of jobs within the county and, according to the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Farmers%27_Association" title="Irish Farmers' Association">Irish Farmers' Association</a>, the total value of agricultural produce from Meath in 2018 was €541 million, ranking it 6th in Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Extraction_and_energy">Extraction and energy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Extraction and energy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg/220px-Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg/330px-Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg/440px-Zinc_fragment_sublimed_and_1cm3_cube.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5135" data-file-height="3138" /></a><figcaption>Meath has one of the largest reserves of <a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">Zinc</a> in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Due to the geology of the area, Meath has enormous reserves of <a href="/wiki/Lead" title="Lead">Lead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">Zinc</a>, which are extracted at <a href="/wiki/Tara_Mine" title="Tara Mine">Tara Mine</a> in Navan. Tara is both Europe's largest and deepest mine and is currently owned by <a href="/wiki/Boliden_AB" title="Boliden AB">Boliden AB</a>. The mine commenced operations in 1977, and a total of 85 million tonnes of ore has been extracted from it, producing an average of 2.6 million tonnes of zinc ore annually.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Glacial deposits of gravel exist in a band stretching from the Offaly border at Edenderry, to the sea at Laytown. This is the basis of a long quarrying tradition. The local availability of large deposits of limestone and shale also gave rise to a significant cement production industry within the county. The two largest cement facilities are at Kinnegad and Platin, the latter of which is owned by <a href="/wiki/CRH_plc" title="CRH plc">Irish Cement</a> and has the capacity to produce 2.8 million tonnes of cement per annum, which is primarily transported via rail to Dublin for use or export. </p><p>Ireland's first waste-to-energy plant opened in Duleek in 2011 and produces 17 MW of electricity per annum. <a href="/wiki/SSE_plc" title="SSE plc">SSE</a> <a href="/wiki/Airtricity" class="mw-redirect" title="Airtricity">Airtricity</a> aim to build a 208 MW gas-fired power plant south of Drogheda. Meath has a small but growing <a href="/wiki/Biomass" title="Biomass">biomass</a> industry, however other forms of renewable energy such as <a href="/wiki/Wind_power" title="Wind power">wind power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectricity</a> have stalled due to widespread objections. There is an abundance of natural subterranean <a href="/wiki/Fault_(geology)" title="Fault (geology)">faults</a> where water from <a href="/wiki/Hot_spring" title="Hot spring">hot springs</a>, such as those Enfield, rise to the surface at 25 °C. There is potential for these to be used for <a href="/wiki/Geothermal_power" title="Geothermal power">Shallow Geothermal Energy</a> generation.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_M1_Boyne_Bridge,_near_Drogheda,_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg/200px-The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg/300px-The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg/400px-The_M1_Boyne_Bridge%2C_near_Drogheda%2C_Co._Louth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1414270.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mary_McAleese_Boyne_Valley_Bridge" title="Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge">Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The county is served by four <a href="/wiki/Motorways_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Motorways in the Republic of Ireland">motorway routes</a>. The <a href="/wiki/N3_road_(Ireland)" title="N3 road (Ireland)">M3</a> connects Navan to Dublin and runs from just south of Kells to Clonee, a distance of 48 km (30 mi). The <a href="/wiki/N4_road_(Ireland)" title="N4 road (Ireland)">M4</a> passes through the south of the county and serves as the main road to both <a href="/wiki/Sligo" title="Sligo">Sligo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Galway" title="Galway">Galway</a>, when it divides at <a href="/wiki/Kinnegad" title="Kinnegad">Kinnegad</a> into the N4 and the <a href="/wiki/M6_motorway_(Ireland)" title="M6 motorway (Ireland)">M6</a>. The <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway_(Republic_of_Ireland)" title="M1 motorway (Republic of Ireland)">M1</a> Dublin to <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> route traverses East Meath for 17 km (11 mi) before bypassing <a href="/wiki/Drogheda" title="Drogheda">Drogheda</a>. </p><p>A 13 km (8.1 mi) stretch of the <a href="/wiki/N2_road_(Ireland)" title="N2 road (Ireland)">N2</a> from Ashbourne to the Dublin border at Ward Cross was upgraded to the M2 motorway in 2009. Two <a href="/wiki/National_primary_road" title="National primary road">national primary routes</a> pass through the county, The N3 and the N2. The M3 becomes the N3 south of Kells before continuing on to <a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">County Cavan</a>, a distance of 12 km (7.5 mi). The N2 begins at Ashbourne and crosses the county for roughly 30 km (19 mi) before entering <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">County Louth</a> near <a href="/wiki/Collon" title="Collon">Collon</a>. Two <a href="/wiki/National_secondary_road" title="National secondary road">national secondary routes</a> pass through the county. The majority of the <a href="/wiki/N51_road_(Ireland)" title="N51 road (Ireland)">N51</a> Drogheda to Mullingar route is located within Meath, and crosses the county for 40 km (25 mi), passing through Slane, Navan and Athboy.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/N52_road_(Ireland)" title="N52 road (Ireland)">N52</a> which stretches from <a href="/wiki/Nenagh" title="Nenagh">Nenagh</a>, where it joins the <a href="/wiki/M7_motorway_(Ireland)" title="M7 motorway (Ireland)">M7</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Dundalk" title="Dundalk">Dundalk</a>, where it joins the N1, crosses the county for 36 km (22 mi) and passes through Kells. <a href="/wiki/Bus_%C3%89ireann" title="Bus Éireann">Bus Éireann</a>, as well as private coach operators, provide bus services to villages and towns across the county. Areas close to Dublin city in southern and eastern Meath such as Clonee and Dunboyne are also served by <a href="/wiki/Dublin_Bus" title="Dublin Bus">Dublin Bus</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rail">Rail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Rail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg/200px-M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg/300px-M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg/400px-M3_Parkway_railway_station_-_2014-05-15.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/M3_Parkway_railway_station" title="M3 Parkway railway station">M3 Parkway railway station</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Irish_Rail" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Rail">Irish Rail</a> provides frequent rail services from <a href="/wiki/Dunboyne_railway_station" title="Dunboyne railway station">Dunboyne</a> and <a href="/wiki/M3_Parkway_railway_station" title="M3 Parkway railway station">M3 Parkway</a> to Dublin city centre. <a href="/wiki/Laytown_railway_station" title="Laytown railway station">Laytown railway station</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gormanston_railway_station" title="Gormanston railway station">Gormanston railway station</a> have a commuter rail service and are located along Dublin's <a href="/wiki/Dublin_Suburban_Rail" title="Dublin Suburban Rail">Northern Commuter Line</a> which runs from Dundalk to Dublin. A commuter train service (Western Commuter Line) passes through <a href="/wiki/Enfield_railway_station_(Ireland)" title="Enfield railway station (Ireland)">Enfield</a>, although the service is less frequent as the station is primarily used for the long-distance Irish rail routes to <a href="/wiki/Longford" title="Longford">Longford</a> and Sligo. </p><p>Navan is currently served by a freight-only spur railway line from Drogheda on the Dublin-Belfast main line, for freight traffic (zinc and lead concentrate from Tara Mines in Navan to Dublin Port) connecting at Drogheda. Currently, the only commuter rail from Dublin to Navan must also pass through Drogheda. The direct <a href="/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Navan_railway_line" title="Dublin–Navan railway line">Dublin–Navan railway line</a> remains disused, though still intact. In June 2018, the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Transport,_Tourism_and_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport">Department of Transport</a> stated that it would review reopening the line by extending the link past the M3 parkway in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Air">Air</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Air"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For commercial and international flights, Meath is serviced by <a href="/wiki/Dublin_Airport" title="Dublin Airport">Dublin Airport</a>, which is the closest international airport to the county and has good road links with most major towns. For light aircraft and recreational flying, there are several airstrips located throughout the county which serve as the base of operations for local flying clubs. </p><p>The Trim Aerodrome is primarily used for microlight flying. The Ballybog Airstrip opened in 1990 and provides a number of recreational aviation activities such as <a href="/wiki/Hot_air_balloon" title="Hot air balloon">hot air balloon</a> rides and <a href="/wiki/Air_show" title="Air show">air shows</a>. There are also airfields at Navan and at Moyglare, across the river rye from <a href="/wiki/Kilcock" title="Kilcock">Kilcock</a>, County Kildare. </p><p>There is also a military landing strip at <a href="/wiki/Gormanstown_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Gormanstown Camp">Gormanstown Camp</a> which is not actively used for aircraft. However, the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Defence_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Defence Forces">Irish Defence Forces</a> continue to utilise the airstrip for ground-to-air combat training. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="GAA">GAA</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: GAA"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg/220px-Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg/330px-Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg/440px-Croke_Park_fans_on_the_hill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Meath_GAA" title="Meath GAA">Meath</a> supporters (green and yellow) at an All-Ireland Qualifiers game against <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_GAA" title="Tyrone GAA">Tyrone</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football" title="Gaelic football">Gaelic football</a> is the most popular sport in the county, and the <a href="/wiki/Meath_county_football_team" title="Meath county football team">Meath county football team</a> competes annually in Division 2 of the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_(Ireland)" title="National Football League (Ireland)">National Football League</a>, the provincial <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship" title="Leinster Senior Football Championship">Leinster Senior Football Championship</a> and the <a href="/wiki/All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship" title="All-Ireland Senior Football Championship">All-Ireland Senior Football Championship</a>. Meath has long been the second power of Leinster football, behind <a href="/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Meath_Gaelic_football_rivalry" title="Dublin–Meath Gaelic football rivalry">rivals</a> <a href="/wiki/Dublin_GAA" title="Dublin GAA">Dublin</a>, and 26 Leinster Senior Football Championship Finals have been contested between the two, of which Meath emerged victorious on 9 occasions. In total, Meath has won 21 Leinster titles, making the county the second most successful in the province after Dublin. Given the pre-eminence of Dublin in recent years, Meath's rivalry with <a href="/wiki/Louth_GAA" title="Louth GAA">Louth</a> is now often regarded as the most heated contest, especially after Meath's <a href="/wiki/2010_Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final">highly controversial win</a> over Louth in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship" title="2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship">2010</a> Leinster Final. </p><p>Meath has won the national football league 7 times, between 1933 and 1994, the fifth most titles in Ireland. Additionally, Meath has won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the most prestigious competition in Gaelic football, on 7 occasions between 1949 and 1999, also making it the fifth most successful county in Ireland. Meath has also won Leinster's <a href="/wiki/O%27Byrne_Cup" title="O'Byrne Cup">O'Byrne Cup</a> on 10 occasions, the joint-second most after <a href="/wiki/Kildare_GAA" title="Kildare GAA">Kildare</a>. </p><p>Within the county, Gaelic football clubs compete annually in the <a href="/wiki/Meath_Senior_Football_Championship" title="Meath Senior Football Championship">Meath Senior Football Championship</a>. The first championship was played in 1887, in which Dowdstown beat Kells by 1 goal to nothing. The most successful club in Meath is <a href="/wiki/Navan_O%27Mahonys_GAA" title="Navan O'Mahonys GAA">Navan O'Mahonys</a> with 20 Senior Football Championship titles. The most successful club at the provincial level is <a href="/wiki/Walterstown_GFC" title="Walterstown GFC">Walterstown</a>, which has won 2 <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Club_Football_Championship" title="Leinster Senior Club Football Championship">Leinster Senior Club Football Championship</a> titles in 1980 and 1983. No team from Meath has ever won the <a href="/wiki/All-Ireland_Senior_Club_Football_Championship" title="All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship">All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Hurling" title="Hurling">Hurling</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Meath_county_hurling_team" title="Meath county hurling team">Meath county hurling team</a> competes in Division 2 of the <a href="/wiki/National_Hurling_League" title="National Hurling League">National Hurling League</a>, as well as in the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Hurling_Championship" title="Leinster Senior Hurling Championship">Leinster Senior Hurling Championship</a> and the <a href="/wiki/All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship" title="All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship">All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship</a>. Meath is not a <a href="/wiki/Dual_county" title="Dual county">dual county</a>, and has never won a provincial or national hurling title. </p><p>As with football, the <a href="/wiki/Meath_Senior_Hurling_Championship" title="Meath Senior Hurling Championship">Meath Senior Hurling Championship</a> is held every year. The first championship in 1902 was won by the <a href="/wiki/Navan_Hibernians_GAC" title="Navan Hibernians GAC">Navan Hibernians</a>. The most successful hurling club in the county is <a href="/wiki/Kilmessan_GAA" title="Kilmessan GAA">Kilmessan</a>, with 29 titles, followed by <a href="/wiki/Trim_GAA" title="Trim GAA">Trim</a>, with 28. No club team from Meath has ever won the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Club_Hurling_Championship" title="Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship">Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship</a>, and has therefore never qualified for the <a href="/wiki/All-Ireland_Senior_Club_Hurling_Championship" title="All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship">All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg/220px-Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg/330px-Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg/440px-Horse_Racing_at_Fairyhouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3759" data-file-height="2506" /></a><figcaption>Horse racing at <a href="/wiki/Fairyhouse_Racecourse" title="Fairyhouse Racecourse">Fairyhouse</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Equestrian_activities">Equestrian activities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Equestrian activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Horse_racing" title="Horse racing">Horse racing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horse_breeding" title="Horse breeding">horse breeding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horse_training" title="Horse training">horse training</a> are popular in Meath. There are 54 studs within the county, including the Dollanstown Stud and Estate, which is one of the most expensive private properties in Ireland. Race courses within the county include <a href="/wiki/Navan_Racecourse" title="Navan Racecourse">Navan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fairyhouse_Racecourse" title="Fairyhouse Racecourse">Fairyhouse</a> and Bellewstown, which host both <a href="/wiki/National_Hunt_racing" title="National Hunt racing">National Hunt</a> and Flat horse races, such as the <a href="/wiki/Brownstown_Stakes" title="Brownstown Stakes">Brownstown Stakes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bobbyjo_Chase" title="Bobbyjo Chase">Bobbyjo Chase</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lismullen_Hurdle" title="Lismullen Hurdle">Lismullen Hurdle</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Grand_National" title="Irish Grand National">Irish Grand National</a>. The latter has been held at Fairyhouse since 1870. Beach horse racing also takes place at the <a href="/wiki/Laytown_Racecourse" title="Laytown Racecourse">Laytown Racecourse</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Tattersalls" title="Tattersalls">Tattersalls</a> Country House and equestrian grounds, which hosts the International Horse Trials and Country Fair each year, is located opposite the Fairyhouse Racecourse near Ratoath. </p><p>Artist <a href="/wiki/Letitia_Marion_Hamilton" title="Letitia Marion Hamilton">Letitia Marion Hamilton</a> from Dunboyne won an Olympic bronze medal for <a href="/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics" title="Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics">oils and watercolours</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics" title="1948 Summer Olympics">1948 Summer Olympics</a> for her depiction of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_National_Hunt_races" title="List of Irish National Hunt races">The Meath Hunt Point-to-Point Races</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_sports">Other sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Other sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg/190px-Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg/285px-Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg/380px-Killeen_Castle_18th_Hole.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>18th Hole at Killeen Castle</figcaption></figure> <p>As with much of the rest of Ireland, <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> is a popular spectator sport within Meath. The two most prominent football clubs in the county are <a href="/wiki/Parkvilla_F.C." title="Parkvilla F.C.">Parkvilla F.C.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dunboyne_A.F.C." title="Dunboyne A.F.C.">Dunboyne A.F.C.</a>, which both compete in the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_League_(association_football)" title="Leinster Senior League (association football)">Leinster Senior League</a>. The lower-tier Meath and District League comprises clubs from counties Meath, Louth, Cavan and Monaghan. Despite being one of the most populous counties in Ireland, it took until 2018 for Dunboyne's <a href="/wiki/Darragh_Lenihan" title="Darragh Lenihan">Darragh Lenihan</a> to become the first player from Meath to have represented the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_team" title="Republic of Ireland national football team">Republic of Ireland national football team</a>. Since then, <a href="/wiki/Jamie_McGrath" title="Jamie McGrath">Jamie McGrath</a> of <a href="/wiki/Athboy" title="Athboy">Athboy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Evan_Ferguson" title="Evan Ferguson">Evan Ferguson</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bettystown" title="Bettystown">Bettystown</a> have represented the side. </p><p>Golf is also widely played, and there are numerous golf and <a href="/wiki/Links_(golf)" title="Links (golf)">links</a> courses in Meath. <a href="/wiki/Killeen_Castle,_Dunsany" title="Killeen Castle, Dunsany">Killeen Castle</a> in Dunsany has an 18-hole championship golf course which was designed by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicklaus" title="Jack Nicklaus">Jack Nicklaus</a> in 2009, and was the venue for the <a href="/wiki/2011_Solheim_Cup" title="2011 Solheim Cup">2011 Solheim Cup</a>. Knightsbrook Golf Club in Trim also has a championship golf course which was designed by <a href="/wiki/Christy_O%27Connor_Snr" title="Christy O'Connor Snr">Christy O'Connor</a> in 2006. The County Meath Golf Club in Trim and Royal Tara Golf Club near Navan are two of the most popular golfing locations in the county. Links golf is also played adjacent to the Irish sea coast at the Laytown & Bettystown Golf Club. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Athletics_(sport)" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletics (sport)">Athletics</a> within the county is organised by the Meath Athletics Board, which oversees the county's 18 athletics clubs. The board is based in Claremont Stadium in Navan, which is a 400m Tartan Athletics Track and Field Stadium. <a href="/wiki/Sara_Treacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sara Treacy">Sara Treacy</a> of Dunboyne AC represented Ireland in the <a href="/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics" title="2016 Summer Olympics">2016 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>. </p><p>Several teams from Meath compete in the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_League" title="Leinster League">Leinster League</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a>, most notably <a href="/wiki/Ashbourne_RFC" title="Ashbourne RFC">Ashbourne RFC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athboy_RFC" title="Athboy RFC">Athboy RFC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navan_R.F.C." title="Navan R.F.C.">Navan R.F.C.</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Meath_RFC" title="North Meath RFC">North Meath RFC</a>. Former <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Rugby" title="Leinster Rugby">Leinster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_union_team" title="Ireland national rugby union team">Ireland</a> <a href="/wiki/Wing_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wing (rugby union)">wing</a> <a href="/wiki/Shane_Horgan" title="Shane Horgan">Shane Horgan</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Bellewstown" title="Bellewstown">Bellewstown</a>, played for <a href="/wiki/Boyne_RFC" title="Boyne RFC">Boyne RFC</a> in <a href="/wiki/Drogheda" title="Drogheda">Drogheda</a> at youth level. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Meath_people" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Meath people">List of Meath people</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_County_Meath" title="Category:People from County Meath">Category:People from County Meath</a></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">Counties of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Meath" title="Lord Lieutenant of Meath">Lord Lieutenant of Meath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Meath" title="High Sheriff of Meath">High Sheriff of Meath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meath_Archaeological_and_Historical_Society" title="Meath Archaeological and Historical Society">Meath Archaeological and Historical Society</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_Meath&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Offaly" title="County Offaly">County Offaly</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Offaly_crest.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Offaly_crest.svg/30px-Offaly_crest.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Offaly_crest.svg/45px-Offaly_crest.svg.png 1.5x, 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Meath">Oldcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratoath" title="Ratoath">Ratoath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trim,_County_Meath" title="Trim, County Meath">Trim</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg/100px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg/150px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg/200px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Meath.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1450" data-file-height="1807" 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title="Bettystown">Bettystown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyerstown" title="Boyerstown">Boyerstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlanstown" title="Carlanstown">Carlanstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnaross" title="Carnaross">Carnaross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castlejordan,_County_Meath" title="Castlejordan, County Meath">Castlejordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castletown-Kilpatrick" title="Castletown-Kilpatrick">Castletown KP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clonard,_County_Meath" title="Clonard, County Meath">Clonard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clonee" title="Clonee">Clonee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curraha" title="Curraha">Curraha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donacarney" title="Donacarney">Donacarney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drumconrath" title="Drumconrath">Drumconrath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drumone" title="Drumone">Drumone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drumree" title="Drumree">Drumree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunderry" title="Dunderry">Dunderry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gormanston,_County_Meath" title="Gormanston, County Meath">Gormanston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julianstown" title="Julianstown">Julianstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentstown" title="Kentstown">Kentstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilcloon" title="Kilcloon">Kilcloon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kildalkey" title="Kildalkey">Kildalkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmainhamwood" title="Kilmainhamwood">Kilmainhamwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmessan" title="Kilmessan">Kilmessan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiltale" title="Kiltale">Kiltale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knightsbrook" title="Knightsbrook">Knightsbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laytown" title="Laytown">Laytown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longwood,_County_Meath" title="Longwood, County Meath">Longwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monknewton" class="mw-redirect" title="Monknewton">Monknewton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mornington,_County_Meath" title="Mornington, County Meath">Mornington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosney" title="Mosney">Mosney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moylagh,_County_Meath" title="Moylagh, County Meath">Moylagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moynalty" title="Moynalty">Moynalty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mulhussey" title="Mulhussey">Mulhussey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobber" title="Nobber">Nobber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldbridge" title="Oldbridge">Oldbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1th_Chairn" title="Ráth Chairn">Ráth Chairn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rathmolyon" title="Rathmolyon">Rathmolyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robinstown,_County_Meath" title="Robinstown, County Meath">Robinstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skryne" title="Skryne">Skryne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slane" title="Slane">Slane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamullen" title="Stamullen">Stamullen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summerhill,_County_Meath" title="Summerhill, County Meath">Summerhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilkinstown" title="Wilkinstown">Wilkinstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Furze" title="Yellow Furze">Yellow Furze</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Geography_of_County_Meath" title="Category:Geography of County Meath">Category:Geography of County Meath</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Counties_of_Ireland" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div 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alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg/20px-Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg/30px-Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg/40px-Coat_of_arms_of_Connacht.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="226" data-file-height="270" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Connacht" title="Connacht">Connacht</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_Galway" title="County Galway">Galway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Leitrim" title="County Leitrim">Leitrim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Mayo" title="County Mayo">Mayo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Roscommon" title="County Roscommon">Roscommon</a></li> <li><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg/20px-Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg/30px-Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg/40px-Coat_of_arms_of_Leinster.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="338" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_Carlow" title="County Carlow">Carlow</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">Dublin</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire%E2%80%93Rathdown" title="Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown">Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fingal" title="Fingal">Fingal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dublin" title="South Dublin">South Dublin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Kildare" title="County Kildare">Kildare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Kilkenny" title="County Kilkenny">Kilkenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Laois" title="County Laois">Laois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Longford" title="County Longford">Longford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">Louth</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Meath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Offaly" title="County Offaly">Offaly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Westmeath" title="County Westmeath">Westmeath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Wexford" title="County Wexford">Wexford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Wicklow" title="County Wicklow">Wicklow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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title="County Tipperary">Tipperary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Waterford" title="County Waterford">Waterford</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg/20px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg/30px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg/40px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="338" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Antrim" title="County Antrim">Antrim</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Armagh" title="County Armagh">Armagh</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Cavan" title="County Cavan">Cavan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Donegal" title="County Donegal">Donegal</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Down" title="County Down">Down</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Fermanagh" title="County Fermanagh">Fermanagh</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Londonderry" title="County Londonderry">Londonderry</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Monaghan" title="County Monaghan">Monaghan</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/County_Tyrone" title="County Tyrone">Tyrone</a></i><sup><small>†</small></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Italic_type" title="Italic type">Italics</a></i> denote non-administrative 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