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Ireland Gazeteer

County Meath in 1839  

INTRODUCTION

MEATH, formerly distinguished as EAST MEATH, an Irish county in the province of Leinster; bounded on the north by Monaghan, on the north-east by Louth, on the east by the Irish sea, on the south-east by the county of Dublin, on the south by Kildare, on the south-west by King's County, on the west by West Meath, and on the north-west by Cavan.

Its form is very irregular. It greatest length is from the coast of the Irish Sea near Gormanstown on the east, to the bank of Lough Sheelin, or Shillin, on the west, 47 statute miles; its greatest breadth, at right angles to the length, is from the border of the county of Monaghan on the north, to the junction of the three counties, Kildare, King's County, and Meath, on the south 39 or 40 miles.

The area of the county of Meath is estimated at 488,758 statute acres, or nearly 764 square miles.

The population by the census of 1831 was 176,826, giving 231 inhabitants to a square mile.

In size it may be compared with the English county of Westmoreland; in amount of population, with Northampton; and in density of population, with Durham.

Trim, the assize town, is about 25 miles north-west of Dublin.

Meath is divided into eighteen baronies, which, with their relative position, and population in 1831, are as follows:-  

Deece, Lower ; central ; 3,931

Deece, Upper ; S. ; 5,294

Demifore or Half Foure ; W. ; 13,717

Duleek, Lower ; E. ; 10,020

Duleek, Upper ; E. ; 8,941

Dunboyne ; S.E. ; 2,698

Kells, Lower ; N.W. ; 13,666

Kells, Upper ; N.W. ; 20,462

Lune ; W. ; 12,212

Morgallion ; N. & Central ; 11,990

Moyfenragh, Lower ; S. ; 11,893

Moyfenragh, Upper ; S.W. ; 8,631

Navan, Lower ; Central ; 16,234

Navan, Upper ; Central ; 4,857

Ratoath ; S.E. ; 6,685

Skreen or Skryne ; Central ; 8,683

Slane, Lower ; N. ; 9,647

Slane, Upper ; N.E. ; 7,265

TOTAL : 176,826

Population Table:-

Date

Houses

Families

Families chiefly employed in:

Persons

 

 

 

Agriculture

Trade, Manufacture, Handicraft

Other

Males

Females

Total

1792

22,468

-

-

-

-

-

-

112,400

1813

25,921

-

-

-

-

-

-

142,479

1821

27,942

30,125

-

-

-

79,778

79,405

159,183

1831

29,796

31,632

22,396

4,575

4,661

88,993

87,883

176,826