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County Meath

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County Meath
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Area: 2,342 km²
Capital: Navan
Code: MH
Population: 134,005 (2002)
Province: Leinster

Meath (An Mhí in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, the county is often informally called The Royal County. Area: 2342 km² (904 square miles). The de facto county town is Navan, where the county hall is located, although Trim has a historical significance, including the location of the circuit court, Norman castle and Anglo-Norman parliament. Other major towns include Ashbourne, Laytown/Bettystown , and Kells with its round tower and monastic past.

Meath has experienced divergent population trends in recent years, with mild depopulation in the north and west of the county being more than offset by large increases in the population of the eastern part of the county, principally due to overspill from Dublin.

Meath (the "middle") was once a province of Ireland in its own right, but now forms part of Leinster. The High King of Ireland sat at Tara. The 5,000-year-old burial site Newgrange (Brú na Bóinne), in the northeast of the county, is a "World Heritage" designated site.

Geography

Economy

An increasing proportion of Meath residents commute into Dublin, with a resulting shift to a services based economy in the developing dormitory towns.


Traditional counties of Ireland
Connacht: Galway | Leitrim | Mayo | Roscommon | Sligo
Munster: Clare | Cork | Kerry | Limerick | Tipperary | Waterford
Leinster: Carlow | Dublin | Kildare | Kilkenny | Laois | Longford | Louth | Meath | Offaly | Westmeath | Wexford | Wicklow
Ulster: Antrim * | Armagh * | Cavan | Donegal | Down * | Fermanagh * | Londonderry * | Monaghan | Tyrone *
* Counties in Northern Ireland (other counties are in the Republic of Ireland)


Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45