Talk:County Meath

History of Meath

anyone interested in doing something on the history of the county. Its steeped in it...Newgrange, Nowth and Dowth, the Boyne itself from Fionn Mac Cumhail to the Battle between King James and King William of Orange. The High King sat there as mentioned as well as St Patrick having spent a while there (battling druids and such ;)). Paidí O Donaghue in 1798, Thomas Ashe in 1916 (one of the few risings outside Dublin and the only succesful one) in Ashbourne. Kells, Trim, etc. etc I could go on....perhaps they are covered under individual articles but it would be nice to have a brief summary and then link to the various things...(its done in the intro but not really....) --83.61.164.102 16:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What's with the "de facto" re. Navan, it *is* the county town. 194.165.181.169 00:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wotno flag?

Is there a reason the county flag isn't included on the page? [1] 158.234.10.144 (talk) 15:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There sure is. There is no flag for the county. The only flag that is used is the Meath GAA flag which is not representative of the political entity that is Meath. --MacTire02 (talk) 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

JGillet summary table

I found this excellent piece of work on User:Jgillett (if you object to me copying it here just delete it):

Towns and Villages

**Survey of Meath Towns July 2008**
Location	Size	Infobox	Image	Sources	Irish Name
Agher	Good for the auctual size of Agher	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ardcath	Stub	No	No	No	Yes
Ashbourne, County Meath	Good	Yes	Yes^[1]	Yes	Yes
Athboy	Start	Yes	Yes^[2]	Yes	Yes
Batterstown	Stub	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Bellewstown	Stub	No	Yes	No	Yes
Bettystown	Start^[3]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Carnaross	Stub	No	Yes	No	yes
Clonard, County Meath	Stub	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Clonee	Start	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Curraha	Stub	No	No	No	Yes
Donacarney	Okay	No	No	No	Yes
Drumconrath	Stub	No	No	No	Yes
Drumone	Stub	No	Yes^[4]	No	Yes
Drumree	Stub	No	No	Yes	Yes
Duleek	Start^[5]	No	No	Yes	Yes
Dunboyne	Stub	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Dunshaughlin	Stub	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Enfield, County Meath^[6]	Start	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gormanston, County Meath	Stub	No	No	Yes	Yes
Julianstown	Start	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Kells, County Meath	Start	Yes	Yes^[7]	Yes	Yes
Kentstown	Stub	No	Yes	No	Yes
Kildalkey	Stub^[8]	No	No	Yes	Yes
Kiltale	Start	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Laytown	Good	Yes	Yes^[9]	Yes	Yes
Longwood, County Meath	Start	Yes	No	No	Yes
Monknewton	Stub	No	No	Yes	Yes
Mornington, County Meath	Start	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mosney	Stub	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Moylagh, County Meath	Stub	No	No	No	Yes
Moynalty	Start	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Navan	Needs to be updated	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nobber	Start	No	No	Yes	Yes
Oldcastle, County Meath	Start	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ratoath	Start	Yes	No	No	Yes
Ráth Cairn	Stub	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Skryne	Stub	Yes	No	No	Yes
Slane	Good	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stamullen	Start	No	No	No	Yes
Summerhill, County Meath	Good	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Trim, County Meath	Good	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Very good idea to keep track of progress on towns and villages - we should have one for every county! Sarah777 (talk) 13:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agher is a very small village, if even one.

Ballinlough is 7 miles north west of Kells and 6 miles from Oldcastle. It has a shop, pub, club and petrol station.

References

^ Quite a few images for article, might do with a gallery.
^ Could do with better pictures
^ Rated as stub in WPie
^ Merely a picture of the village sign
^ Rated as Stub by WP Ireland
^ Need to create a disambig page and put a link to it from Enfield
^ No current photos
^ WPie = Start
^ No current photos

--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up

This article needs to be cleaned up seriously. I don't even no where to start, and perhaps it may be a sysop's job to rollback certain additions made by some users. For a start, Ms. O'Connor, I would assume, is a teacher in some school and it appears some kids are using her words to edit this article. Great that we have young editors but we need accurate information here. Secondly, the article insinuates that Meath was in Brega - incorrect. Part of modern Meath was for a time in Brega, but then part was also in Leinster, Breifne, etc., depending on what period of history you are looking at, but certainly to indicate it was never in Meath is just innacurate. The capital of the kingdom of Mide was in Tara - the very centre of the county for Pete's sake. So if Meath was not in Mide, how was Tara capital of Mide? Did it teleport or something??? The history and geography sections also need expanding, as currently the history section contains barely a few sentences (one including historical inaccuracies) and the geography section consisting of simple lists. --MacTire02 (talk) 19:10, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, under the Government section, Ray Butler (Fine Gael) links to the retired American Football player. Is that correct (and need to be added to) or not? Virillustre (talk) 18:54, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Population 2016 or 2011

Population is given for 2016, but source is given for 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wanfried-Dublin (talk • contribs) 16:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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B class and updating

Much of this article is not up to date in terms of population and various other issues. Is that not a requirement for a B-class article? Sarah777 (talk) 14:56, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Quite a few images for article, might do with a gallery.

[2] Could do with better pictures

[3] Rated as stub in WPie

[4] Merely a picture of the village sign

[5] Rated as Stub by WP Ireland

[6] Need to create a disambig page and put a link to it from Enfield

[7] No current photos

[8] WPie = Start

[9] No current photos

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