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Ráth is the Irish for a ringfort. There is evidence that it was already spelt Ratoath in 1392, when Walter Kerdiff of the town sued Sir Walter Cusack for debt. In a royal grant of the manor of Ratoath to Sir Robert Bold, later Baron Ratoath, in 1468, it was described as Rathonth.
Recorded by Noel E. French August 1987. Ratoath parish is situated in south County Meath near the Dublin border. The parish was united in 1682 to Greenoge Killegland, Cookstown and Donaghmore. In the early 1800’s Bishop Lewis O’Beirne tried to rectify the problem of non-resident clergy men.
This place, anciently called Rathtotoath, is supposed to have derived that name from a conspicuous mount near the church, on which Malachy, the first monarch of all Ireland, is said to have held a convention of the states. ...
History of the Church. The present Church of Ratoath replaced a Mass- house of the 1760’s, the site of which is still pointed out at a place called the ‘stepping stones’. The church still retains its medieval dedication to the Most Blessed Trinity.
The principal villages are Carlanstown, Dunboyne, Mornington, Ratoath, and Rathmolion (Rathmolyon). The county sent 14 members to the Irish parliament, two for the county, and two for each of the boroughs of Athboy, Duleek, Kells, Navan, Ratoath, and Trim.
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Reconstructing the seventeenth-century landscape of the Pale. When the lords of the Pale (as they continued to be styled in subsequent depositions) gathered at various hilltops in east Meath in October 1641, their dilemma was palpable.
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A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. 1837. RATOATH, a parish (formerly a parliamentary borough), in the barony of RATOATH, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (N. W.) from Ashbourne, and 11 ½ (N. W.) from Dublin; containing 1779 inhabitants, of which number, 552 are in the village. This place, anciently called Rathtotoath, is ...