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Holidays County Meath.

Towns in Meath : Ashbourne, Athboy, Dunboyne, Dunshaughlin, Kells, Navan, Oldcastle, Ratoath, Trim.

County Town = Navan.


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Holiday Homes / Holiday Cottages / Apartments

  Imagine Ireland
One of Ireland's leading self-catering holiday cottage specialists.

  Interhome    -   Holiday homes Ireland

    
Discover Ireland from the comfort of your own holiday park, apartment or villa

 
Cottages4you is the leading provider of self-catered holidays throughout Ireland 

Hotels in Meath, Bed & Breakfast, Guesthouses

  Booking.com   -   Hotel Guide County Meath

  Booking.com   -   Accommodation Guide Navan

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

  Dunboyne Castle Hotel & Spa
Situated just 8 miles from Dublin airport and 11 miles from Dublin City Centre, Dunboyne Castle Hotel & Spa stands minutes from the N3 and M50, making it an extremely accessible base from which to travel or commute. For Corporate guests, the Dublin 15 Business parks are within a 3 mile radius.
  Slane Farm Hostel   -   historic coach house

Travel Agencies / Tour Operator

 
Create your perfect break in Co Meath

 
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  golf
  fishing
  excursion on a canal barge
  enjoy beautiful scenic walks along the banks on the famous river Boyne
  air ballooning
  laze on a beach making sandcastles

Travel Guides Meath / Related books

Temples of Stone
Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland
Carleton Jones (Author)
Some time 6,000 years ago, the members of a now long-forgotten tribe dragged and lifted carefully chosen stones into place and built Ireland's first Temple of Stone. Over the next 2,000 years, hundreds more megalithic tombs were built across the country and then, around 2000 BC, the building stopped and the knowledge of what these remarkable stone structures meant to their builders was lost. After 4,000 years of silence, however, the stones are no longer mute. Every year, archaeologists discover more about these enigmatic monuments and instead of a single, simple answer to the question of what the megalithic tombs meant to those who built them, there is a multitude of answers, each one more intriguing that the next. As the Office of Public Works celebrates 40 years of the winter solstice at Newgrange and we enter Samhain, the Celtic New Year, Carleton Jones brings together the interpretations surrounding our megalithic tombs in a fully-illustrated popular format, shedding light on our ancestors belief systems and rituals and their deliberate manipulations of the world around them, often with drug-induced hallucinations. All key sites in Ireland are discussed with 100 Sites Worth Visiting listed in a final chapter with photos, maps and detailed directions.
Hardcover: 346 pages; Publisher: The Collins Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2007); ISBN-10: 1905172052; ISBN-13: 978-1905172054.

Bru Na Boinne
Lambert M. Surhone (Author), Miriam T. Timpledon (Author), Susan F. Marseken (Author)
Paperback: 96 pages; Publisher: Betascript Publishing (29 Jun 2010); ISBN-10: 613204776X; ISBN-13: 978 -6132047762.

Transport / How do I travel to Meath

  Cork Airport
  Dublin Airport
  Shannon Airport

  

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  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights / Cheap Flights 

  Norfolk Line
Ferries to Ireland from Liverpool ( ferry to Ireland ).

     -   Liverpool - Dublin v.v. and more
P&O Ferries is one of the most well known and trusted brands. Wherever you are travelling to, on holiday or on business, P&O Ferries offers a wide range of routes.

National Express 
Travel by bus or coach to Meath.


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  Meath Tourism 
Ireland's Heritage Capital was once the territory of the High Kings of Ireland. Some of the most important historic sites and monuments are located within County Meath and virtually every important aspect of Irish history from prehistoric times is associated with the county. 

  Navan   -   County Town Maeth
Traditionally Navan was famous for carpets and for a thriving furniture industry, but are in decline or ceased.
Tara Mine, Europe's largest lead and zinc mine is located in Navan.

  Ashbourne   -   commuter town ca. 20 km north of Dublin city
See Ashbourne Civic Office.
  Athboy   -   small agricultural town
The town is located on the Yellow Ford River, in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. A ford over the Athboy river gave its name to the town i.e. Baile Átha Buí (the town of the Yellow Ford), and the first bridge was built here in c. 1400 A.D. The Carmelites came to Ireland  c.1260, and one of their four chief houses was in Athboy.  The monastery was located at Danescourt near St. James' Church of Ireland, where the monks ran a hospital and a house of hospitality.
  Dunboyne   -   dormitory town for the city of Dublin
  Dunshaughlin   -   satellite town of Dublin
Named after Saint Seachnall, a contemporary of Saint Patrick, who established a church there in the 5th century.
  Enfield
  Julianstown
  Kells Town or Ceanannas Mór
An officially designated Irish Heritage Town and home to the finest examples of monastic settlements to be found in Ireland.
  Kinnegad
  Oldcastle
  Ratoath
  Slane   -   The Heart of The Boyne Valley   -   Slanetourism.com 
  Trim
Trim contains Ireland's largest Norman castle and was the setting for many Norman-Irish parliaments.

  Abbey of Kells   -   a former monastery located in Kells
The Abbey was founded in the early ninth century, and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later medieval and early modern periods before finally leaving the Abbey in the 1650s.
  Athboy Heritage Trail 
  Beamore Heritage Trail
  Bective Abbey
Located 10 minutes drive west of Navan off the R161 is the remains of the second Cistercian Monastery founded in Ireland.
  Brú na Bóinne   -   Unesco World Heritage Site
  Clonard Heritage Trail
  Duleek Heritage Trail
  Hill of Tara   -    an ancient historical site
Just 10 minutes drive south of Navan off the N3 you will find the Hill of Tara where Irish myth, legend and history meet. It has been home to druids, warriors and was the seat of the High Kings of Ireland. The Hill of Tara today has the ruins of the royal enclosures, and circular mound formations.
Kings, poets and heroes used to gather at Tara every three years. There they would make laws, settle disputes and review the poems and stories that every poet kept in his head.
  Kells Heritage Centre
Where you can see the Market Cross which is a 9th Century High Cross that would originally been located at the gate of the Kells Monastery.
  King John's Castle
Commonly known as Trim Castle is the largest remaining Anglo-Norman castle in Europe. Built by Hugh de Lacy in 1173. Located in the designated Heritage town of Trim
  Ledwidge Cottage Museum
Slane is the birthplace of the poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) and the Ledwidge Cottage Museum in Slane commemorates the writer.
  Loughcrew Cairns   -   an ancient historical site
Possibly the oldest cemetery in the world. Loughcrew Cairns form the largest complex of Passage Graves in Ireland. The Cairns are megalithic structures containing symbolic engravings. Like other passage graves in Ireland, they have clear astrological alignments.
  Moynalty Heritage Trail
  Newgrange
One of the earliest and most significant and dramatic structures in Western Europe.
Newgrange is a large kidney shaped mound covering an area of over one acre, retained at the base by 97 kerbstones, some of which are richly decorated with megalithic art. The 19 metre long inner passage leads to a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof.
Newgrange was constructed over 5,000 years ago (about 3,200 B.C.), making it older than Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and classified by archaeologists as a passage tomb.
  Religious ruins
At Trim (two), Bective, Slane (two), Dunsany, Skryne (Skreen).
  Slane Castle [ private ]
Slane is steeped in history and with the river Boyne flowing below the Castle, it has a mystical quality. The Hill of Slane, which overlooks the Castle, is where St. Patrick lit his paschal fire, following which he was summoned by the High King to Tara, and Ireland was subsequently converted to Christianity. The historic Battle of the Boyne was fought just downriver.
The Castle displays the collective talents of some of Ireland and England's most distinguished architects. The parklands were laid out by the distinguished landscape architect, Capability Brown.
  Táin Trail
The Táin Trail is the route that the armies of Queen Maeve and Cúchulainn followed, where they rested and where they fought, as outlined in the epic tale An Táin Bó Cuailgne "The Cattle Raid of Cooley".
  The Workhouse Dunshaughlin
The Dunshaughlin workhouse was erected in 1840-41 to the south of Dunshaughlin and planned to accommodate 400 inmates.

  News from Meath   -   The Meath Chronicle 

Cuisine  -   Gastronomy

  Food & Drink County Meath

  Irish food

History of Meath

  History County Meath

  Battle of the Boyne
A battle of European significance fought on Irish soil. The defeat of the Catholic King James II of England by the Protestant King William of Orange affected the political shape of Europe, the British Throne and Protestant power in Ireland.

The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience 
British Library Studies in Medieval Culture.
Carol A. Farr (Author)
Hardcover: 256 pages; Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division (1 Feb 1997); Language English; ISBN-10: 0712304991; ISBN-13: 978-0712304993.
  The Book of Kells
An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
Bernard Meehan (Author)
Paperback: 96 pages; Publisher: Thames & Hudson; New edition edition (30 Jan 1995); Language English; ISBN-10: 0500277907; ISBN-13: 978-0500277904.

Music, Culture & Events

  Solstice Arts Centre, Railway Street, Navan, Co. Meath
The 320 seat theatre space is the core of the performing arts in Meath. Solstice Café, a place of culture, meeting and exchange, is also the perfect relaxation space to enjoy a good cup of Joe with friends.

  Slane Castle
Slane Castle hosts many high profile events, from its famous Summer Concerts with a capacity of 80,000 people, to intimate events inside the Castle.  With the backdrop of the River Boyne and the surrounding parkland of the Estate, it is the perfect venue to accommodate a wide range of events in unique surroundings.
  Slane St. Patrick's Day Parade

  Meath Event Guide

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