County Meath - Towns

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Situated on the N2, Ashbourne is a thriving village. On the northern outskirts of the valley is a monument to the only major incident of the 1916 Easter Rebellion to take place outside Dublin. This monument carries a plaque inscribed with a line from a poem by Thomas Ashe, the local schoolmaster at that time: 'Let me carry your cross for Ireland, Lord'. The monument has a dual image - on one side the figure is in the form of Christ, on the other Insurgent. Beside the village are the kennels and deerpark of the Ward Union Hunt. Fairyhouse Racecourse, southwest of Ashbourne, holds race meetings, on Easter Monday and Tuesday every year with the famous Irish Grand National among the races. There are other meetings during the year.

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This is a small agricultural town on the Athboy River, in a wooded country near the County Westmeath border. In medieval times it was a walled stronghold of the Pale. Owen Roe O' Neill took it in 1643, and six years later Cromwell camped his army on the Hill of Ward nearby. The tower of the Protestant church is a remnant of a fourteenth-century Carmelite priory. Behind the church are remains of the town walls.

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Approximately seven miles from Trim and Maynooth, John Bruton leader of Ireland's second biggest political party, Fine Gael, originates here.

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The village is known for the substantial medieval ruins of the second Cistercian monastery founded in Ireland in 1147. The remains are chiefly of smaller 15th century abbey built on the site of the 12th and 13th century early Gothic complex.

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