Townparks North

482 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks North, from 1 m² to 7,413 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 340 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 96 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1C1 - Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of (a) flat roof projection to front of existing dwelling. (b) single storey pitched roof extension to side and rear of dwelling, (c) single storey pitched roof to replace existing flat roof at rear, (d) Re-roof existing house to accommodate non-habitable loft storage space. (e) Modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout. (f) Blocking up existing domestic entrance and construct new recessed entrance and driveway to include boundary treatment upgrades, (g) Re-locate existing on-street parking space, parking ticket machine and associated parking signage (h) all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661085

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  The development being retained consists of detached domestic garage incorporating garden equipment storage area together with all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660228

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of subdivision of site No. 14, and the construction of a proposed single storey style dwelling, revisions to site entrance at access lane (L-40224-4) including the demolition of existing boundary wall, revisions to existing site layout and access lane, connection to all public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660199

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of the change of use from existing commercial building to residential use including internal renovations & alterations, all elevational changes, proposed domestic storage shed, revisions to existing site layout and all associated site works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660123

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of demolition of attached single storey garage and construction of new single storey extension to front, side and rear of existing dwelling, revised internal layout and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561378

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  the development comprises of retention permission for (a) single storey extension to side of existing dwelling comprising of a utility room and accessible toilet. (b) single storey living room extension to rear. (c) modifications to elevations together with all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2560969

• 25 Feb 2025N/a

  the construction of one 105 sqm, 2 storey, detached dwelling house with two rooflights on a side garden adjacent to an existing dwelling house; 1 St. Loman’s Street. Alterations to an existing boundary wall to create a new vehicular entrance off Sarsfield Ave. for 2 car parking spaces onsite and a rear garden with a 1.8m high wall. Connection to public water and foul network. All sewage, drainage, landscaping, and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560179

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  the site is located within the Trim Historic Architectural Conservation Area. The development consists of pizza horse box unit t/a Med Street Food located in the existing beer garden to include dry goods storage area, pizza oven and bin storage area operating from Thursday to Sunday inclusive each week. The development also includes signage to rear entrance gate off Abbey Lane, staff toilet, kitchen area, and all services connected to existing public mains together with all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2461010

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  the development consists of the retention of a single storey domestic shed to the rear of the existing dwelling, along with all associated site works and services

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460947

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  the development consists of the retention of 2 no. single storey domestic sheds and partially roofed dog pen to the rear of the existing dwelling, along with all associated site works and services

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460814

• 18 Sept 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the of a proposed attic conversion to 2 bedroom and office space to landing (60.5sq.m), with dormer roof to rear, retention of existing single storey bedroom and ensuite extension to rear (14.7sq.m) and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460752

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of a bay for hot food casual trading from Thursday to Sunday from 4pm to 9pm daily in the car park located to the rear of the James Griffin Pub which is Protected Structure located within Trim Historic Core Architectural Conservation area and Trim Zone of Archeological potential’

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460630

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a ladies toilet block extension to the James Griffin Pub to replace the existing prefabricated ladies toilet block which is located in the enclosed rear yard area and all associated site works and services to serve this proposed development. The building is a Protected Structure and it is located within Trim Historic Core Architectural Conservation area and Trim Zone of Archeological potential’

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460631

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  the development consists of single storey extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling, re-roofing and conversion of garage to living accommodation and all elevational changes resulting from the works.

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460562

• 27 Mar 2024Conditional

  this is a Protected Structure. The development will consist of change of existing basement, ground and first floors from office to domestic use which will include modifications to internal plan layout and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 24139

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of a new two storey extension to the side and rear of the existing residential dwelling, new front porch, minor elevational changes, internal layout reconfiguration and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460109

• 2 Feb 2024Conditional

  the proposed development will consist of the change of use from existing Youth Hostel to use as a single domestic dwelling. The property was previously granted planning permission for a change of use from domestic dwelling to Youth Hostel under planning ref. P94/12 (Trim UDC) and the permission now sought is to revert to the original domestic use. No works are proposed to the building, this application is for change of use only. The property is a protected structure and located within an Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460075

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  the development consists of retention permission for: (a) Mono-pitch polycarbonate roof over keg store area. (b) Renewed mono-pitch polycarbonate roof over existing side beer garden area. (c) Pergola style roof with mono-pitch side roofs over the existing rear beer garden area. (d) Outdoor smoking area to the rear with hit and miss 1.8 metre high fence incorporating double gates. (e) 4 no. car parking spaces to rear. (f) The development also includes retention permission for change of use of domestic kitchen to snug with bar area together with change of use of retail unit to store area and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 231149

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  the development consists of retention permission for (a) Change of use of existing dis-used joinery workshop to retail showroom together with modifications to elevations, (b) Single storey timber frame, flat roof extension to rear with timber cladding to side and metal cladding to the rear for use as retail showroom together with ancillary welfare rooms. (c) Washed pebble parking area to rear and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 231113

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  the conversion of existing Residential building comprising 3no. self-contained residential units at 39 Loman's Street to 2no. I-bedroomed apartments to include demolition of existing rear single storey flat roof extension, construction of a new rear two storey extension and internal alterations, construction of new apartment building to the rear of 38-39 Loman's Street comprising 2no. 1-bedroomed apartments and all ancillary and associated site development works including site clearance works, new communal open space area, bin storage, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231036

• 5 Sept 2023Conditional

  the development will consist of the demolition of the existing single storey side and rear extension (comprising of a garage and kitchen) and construction of a new, two storey side extension, incorporating 2 bedrooms and 2 ensuite bathrooms on the first floor with a kitchenette, utility room and WC on the ground floor, with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23857

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  the development will consist of (A) Change of use from retail use to café use, (B) The construction of a two-storey extension with single storey element to rear of existing building to contain seating (C) Internal alterations (D) Elevational changes including the addition of windows to northern and eastern elevations and signage to northern elevation and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360138

• 20 Jan 2023Conditional

  the demolition of existing dwelling (107.2 sqm) and garage (22 sqm), the construction of new replacement single storey dwelling (130 sqm), domestic garage (32 sqm) and modification to existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2349

• 6 Dec 2022N/a

  the demolition of existing dwelling (107.2 sqm) and garage (22 sqm), the construction of new replacement single storey dwelling (130 sqm), domestic garage (32 sqm) and modification to existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221584

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  The development consists of retention of the change of use of two rear store rooms to bar area, retention of a single storey cleaners store located in the yard area, and use of rear yard area as a Beer Garden, retention of elevational changes to the building including, increased height to rear storerooms that have been converted into an additional bar area, provision of a covered area to the side of rear bar area, retractable awning to yard area and revisions to the windows/ roof windows to the covered beer garden area. Retention permission is also sought for a period of 10 years for a single storey prefabricated ladies toilet block which has been installed in the enclosed rear yard area and for the change of use of part of the yard area, which is located next the entrance to the car park, into additional car parking (five bays), along with four recycling banks and for the retention of a bay for hot food casual trading beside the entrance to this land from Thursday to Sunday from 4pm to 9pm daily. Planning Permission is sought to convert an existing store room within this public house to a cocktail bar, including the creation of a bar counter / servery area and permission is sought to cover the existing metal roof cladding to the rear bar area to be retained with a corrugated metal or sinusoidal curved metal, finished in a red colour, rendering and painting of the exposed blockwork to the gable end of the public house and all associated site works and services. The building is a Protected Structure and it is located within Trim Historic Core Architectural Conservation area and Trim Zone of Archeological potential'

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221371

The 25 most recent of 55 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME036-048 Historic town
  Description

  Situated on both banks of a NW-SE run of the River Boyne. The town was built around slight hills on the NE bank at St Patrick’s church (ME036-048012-) and at the castle (ME036-048004-) on the SW bank. In 1172 King Henry II granted Meath to Hugh de Lacy ‘as Murrough O’Maelaghlin best held it’ (Otway-Ruthven 1968, 52-3). This king of Meath died in 1153 before the province was dismembered, so in theory de Lacy’s fief, if he could secure it, was as extensive as the modern counties of Meath, Westmeath and Longford with a large part of Offaly. Hugh determined that Trim would be the caput or centre of this vast estate and commenced planning a suitable headquarters for it in a castle that would be defensively strong as well as visually impressive and capable of administering a wide area. A town would naturally grow up around such an important centre, but there had probably been settlement here for some time. Its Gaelic name Áth Thruim – the ford of the alder trees – suggests that it had long been an important, though possibly overgrown, fording point of the river. This may have been where the medieval bridge (ME036-048001-) and Market Street were later constructed on low-lying ground where the river might have been quite broad. A hoard of Middle Bronze Age axes and other prehistoric artefacts from the town testify to prehistoric traffic at least (Potterton 2005, 29-34). According to an eight century source Lommán, a disciple and nephew of St Patrick, was welcomed at Trim by Fedelemid, the son of King Laoighre, and Fedelemid’s wife who was also British. Fedelemid gave his own dwelling to Lommán for a church in perpetuity, which may be why the land on which the town and castle were built was always regarded as Church land. This was possibly where St Patrick’s medieval parish church (ME036-048012-) was established later, but archaeological confirmation of an early date is not yet established. Fedelemid moved to Clúain Lagen, thought to be Clonylon, on the other side of the river (ibid. 34-40). The monastery was certainly in place by the eight century, and Trim was burnt in 784 (AU), 1128 (AU), 1143 (AFM) and 1155 (AFM). The Augustinian abbey of St. Mary’s (ME036-048021-) could have been established by c. 1140 on the NE bank of the river, perhaps on the site of the St Loman’s foundation. The earliest recorded charter (MacNiochaill 1964, 74-5) was granted by Walter de Lacy c. 1194 (Hennessy 2004, 2) but the town was undoubtedly already under way by then. While the castle had to be recaptured by Walter from his half-brother William after a seven week siege in 1224 (ME036-048075-), the town seems to have presented no resistance and was probably unfortified. The earliest murage grant in 1290 was extended in 1308 and again in 1316 (Bradley and King 1985, 163), so the town walls (ME036-048005-) might have been in place by 1315, as Edward Bruce refrained from attacking either the town or castle during his Irish campaign (1315-18). Additional murage in 1393, which also diverted the tolls of Athboy, Navan, and Skreen to Trim, testifies not only to the need to refurbish the walls but also to the status of Trim as the centre of the Liberty or lordship that it retained until 1906 when the county council offices moved to the more central town of Navan (Hennessy 2004, 7). In 1422 Dunshaughlin, Dunboyne, Greenoge and Slane replaced the original three towns in the supporting financial role. The town walls and the paving of the streets preoccupied the burgesses throughout the fifteenth century, and the town was one of the principal bulwarks in the defences of the Pale. In 1584 its status as a walled town was used unsuccessfully to promote Trim as the site of Ireland’s first university. Although it is depicted as a walled town on the Down Survey maps (1658) the walls were known to be in a poor condition, and the last recorded repairs were conducted in 1689. Thereafter they were neglected and removed at some crucial points but considerable stretches remain. The Civil Survey (1654) does not provide much detail and does not mention the walls but it lists three castles, eight houses (probably of stone), three mills, and 74 tenements owned by 16 named individuals (Simington 1940, 249-50). The town continued to be administered in an increasingly ineffectual manner by the Corporation until they were replaced by town commissioners in 1840 (Hennessy 2004, 5-7), but it is not certain if there was a town hall or tholsel (ME036-048060-). The composition of the Corporation changed radically after the Suppression of the monasteries in 1540 when so many New English and non-resident property owners came to dominate that body to the exclusion of the Old English and Roman Catholic natives. The wall encloses a rectangular area of about 20 hectares (c. 50 acres) that is replete with narrow house-plots fronting onto the six principal streets, as recorded on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The principal street is High St. on the NE bank running into Bridge St. and Castle St. with Market St. radiating off it to the SW south of the river while Mill St., Church Lane and Haggard St. are offset to the NW north of the river. Watergate and Loman Streets close off the W ends of these thoroughfares. It is an unusual lay-out for a medieval Irish town (Bradley 1985, 430), but would probably have been in place by the end of the thirteenth century. This century was a period of rapid development which saw both the Franciscans (ME036-048025-) and Dominicans (ME036-048022-) establish friaries on the outskirts of the town, and a church dedicated to Mary Magdalen (ME036-027---) was in place SE of the castle before 1335. In contrast, the fourteenth century was a period of economic decline when the ravages of the Bruce campaign were followed by severe flooding of the town in 1330, the first outbreak of the Black Death (1347-9), and the burning of St. Mary’s in 1364. Conditions improved in the fifteenth century when aristocratic houses such as the Nangle (ME036-048003-) and Talbot (ME036-048002-) fortified houses were built at this administrative centre. A suburb developed outside the Dublin Gate in the thirteenth century, and it is detectable in the burgage plots depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS map. The suburb was not walled but is confirmed by the excavation of two medieval houses (ME036-048032-). The town wall had a circuit of almost 2km with five gateways, but only the ‘Sheep Gate’ (ME036-048011-) between the Augustinian abbey and the Porch Field (ME036-048054-) survives. Archaeological excavations have proved fruitful in many parts of the medieval urban area. Medieval houses (ME036-048035-; ME036-048049-) have been found on both sides of High Street, and the remains of houses and house plots (ME036-048028- to ME036-048031-) have been found close to the river just W of Talbot’s Castle. On the S side between Emmet St., Market St. and Castle St. more than one house has been excavated (ME036-048043-; ME036-048056-) within the town walls, and earlier surface levels of Market St. (ME036-048038-) have been identified. Between Market St., Watergate St. and the river testing on two development sites identified medieval deposits and a N-S medieval masonry wall over layers of riverine silt (Duffy 2007, 2008). A hearth and what might be evidence of industrial activity was found off the W side of Loman’s St. (Coughlan 2007), while three ditches and two masonry features were identified immediately E of St Patrick’s church (Kiernan 2006). There can be no doubt that the town has extensive archaeological deposits. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 July, 2019

• ME036-048001 Bridge
  Description

  Straddling the River Boyne, this bridge is largely of medieval date with some minor 18th century alterations and pointing that is considered to be of 19th century date. The winter of 1330 witnessed a series of violent storms which resulted in a great flood, especially along the River Boyne. Almost all of the bridges, both of wood and stone, were carried away. It has long been held that a pre-existing bridge (of whatever form) on this site was swept away and subsequently replaced by the present structure. The following description of the bridge is derived from Potterton (2005, 195-6): ‘This bridge, which is founded on solid bedrock, consists of four pointed segmental masonry arches, each spanning c. 4.9m with a rise of c. 2.05m, the same ratio as at Babes Bridge (near Donaghmore, Co. Meath). The piers are 2.45m thick and the bridge is 6.4m wide with solid parapets finished with copingstones. There is no evidence whatsoever for post-medieval widening in any arch or pier. During the 1970s the Office of Public Works carried out a programme of arterial drainage (the Boyne Drainage Scheme) which involved lowering the bed of the river at this point by c.1.25m. The piers were left intact, perched on solid rock but, as with many other bridges affected by the scouring action of rivers, the footings of each pier were surrounded with a reinforced concrete skirt or 'pontoon', incorporating pointed cutwaters to assist the flow of floodwaters under the bridge. The six original triangular cutwaters survive, three on each side of the bridge. The one closest to the south bank on the downstream side extends up to the level of the pavement and may once have functioned as a pedestrian refuge, as at the bridge of Newtown Trim. The remaining five cutwaters reach a level just above the arch springings and continue in the form of long, tapering, semi-pyramidal, masonry cappings, 1.7m high, reaching to the level of the soffit of the keystone. This type of capping is found on many old bridges in Meath and sometimes elsewhere. The underside or intrados of the bridge arches are pointed segmental, of identical shape to the surviving arch of Babes Bridge. The arch rings are formed of roughly trimmed, rectangular stones varying in thickness from 7.5 to 15.5cm, and the keystones are no different from the ring stones. A second ring is faintly visible on all arches except the downstream arch on the south side. It is evident that this arch was rebuilt at some stage, and not very well, for it is still distorted and rounded at the keystone in a manner suggestive of the partial collapse of the shuttering. The springings are obscured by the cutwaters that are built into the piers up to that level, indicating that this was all constructed as a unit. The spandrel masonry is roughly-coursed random rubble. The stonework in the sheeting of the arches is also good. The ribbon pointing is probably of nineteenth-century date, and the copingstones on the parapets are neatly shaped 46 x 38 x 10cm limestone flags.’ Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 October 2015

• ME036-048005 Town defences
  Description

  The earliest surviving murage grant for Trim in 1290 was renewed in 1308 and 1316 (Bradley and King 1985, 163), so the town walls might have been in place by 1315, as Edward Bruce refrained from attacking either the town or castle during his Irish campaign (1315-18). Additional murage in 1393, which also diverted the tolls of Athboy, Navan, and Skreen to Trim, testifies not only to the need to refurbish the walls but also to the status of Trim as the centre of the liberty that it retained until 1906 when the county council offices moved to the more central town of Navan (Hennessy 2004, 7). In 1422 Dunshaughlin, Dunboyne, Greenoge and Slane replaced the original tree towns in the supporting financial role. The town walls and the paving of the streets preoccupied the burgesses throughout the fifteenth century and in 1584 the quality of its walls was cited unsuccessfully to promote Trim as the site of Ireland’s first university. Although it is depicted as a walled town on the Down Survey maps (1658) the walls were known to be in a poor condition at that time, and the last recorded repairs were conducted in 1689. Thereafter they were neglected and even removed at some points, particularly where they hindered traffic, but considerable stretches remain. The town wall had a circuit of almost 2km with five gateways, but only the ‘Sheep Gate’ (ME036-048011-) between the Augustinian abbey and the Porch Field (ME036-048054-), which it owned as demesne land in 1540 (White 1943, 303), survives. At least three mural towers can be identified from maps but there may have been more. The course of the wall can be traced on maps dating from 1770 onwards but the most detailed record is provided by the unpublished 5-feet to 1 mile map prepared for the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The castle is the natural focus of the defences at the SE corner of the town, and from its SW angle the wall ran W to the Dublin Gate and beyond (L c. 275m) to the point where the Luppard stream is culverted. A section still can be inspected in a car-park off the modern street called Finnegan’s Way, and it had a wide fosse (ME036-048042-) outside it at this point. From the SW angle it proceeded N (L c. 225m) to where a square tower survives at the crest of the slope down to the river. In this section the wall was revealed (ME036-048044-) at the core of an earthen bank. Archaeological testing (E004250) by D. Fallon outside the line of the wall and c. 17m S of the tower identified a cut for the outer edge of the town ditch (Wth 6.2-6.7m) (excavations.ie 2010:0543). Just N of the tower it turns NE to the site of the Watergate that survived long enough to be photographed in 1889 (Potterton 2005, Pls 5.8, 5.9), and some boundaries (ME036-048034-) have been identified in excavation outside the line of the wall here. The mill that was on the N bank of the river across from the Watergate could be on the site of one of the three mills of the Civil Survey (1658). The town wall ran N from the mill and might still be incorporated in the filed boundaries behind properties that front onto the W side of Loman’s Street. North of St Patrick’s church its line was destroyed by the glebe associated with that church (Coughlin 2007) but it extended to the site of Athboy Gate, which is at a complicated road junction, where a SW-NE wall (T 1m) with the footing of a curving structure extending NW from it into the terminal of a NW-SE ditch (Wth 4.6m; D 1.5m) were uncovered (Seaver 2008, 12-16; 2009). This fragment is the only possible remnant of the town wall in this sector recorded through excavation, but more probably lies buried. The ditch (Wth 4.6m; D 1.6m), which was filled with organic layers and sealed with what is probably a levelled bank, could have bordered the road to Athboy. Potterton (2005, 180-1) suggests that the original town wall may have turned E just N of St Patrick’s church and that the wall running E from Athboy Gate was a later wall enclosing a suburb, but the location of the Dominican friary (ME036-048022-) intimates that a recognised boundary, if not a wall, was already present on this line at the foundation of the friary in 1263. On the E side of the town opposite the castle a long stretch of surviving wall (L c. 250m) extends from the Sheep Gate (ME036-048011-) almost at the riverside northwards to the site of the Navan Gate. Excavation (E002398) here did not uncover the gateway, but medieval deposits, two pits, a ditch and a small wall were recorded (Shine 2007; Seaver and Shine 2010). From here its line is known as it continues N to the open space around the Dominican friary where it turned west, running S of the friary to the site of Athboy Gate, although none of it survives visibly. Where it survives the wall (Wth c. 0.9m-1.2m; H up to 3m) is constructed of well coursed limestone blocks with a rubble core, and the outer face usually has a stronger finish than the inner. The wall, or certain parts of it, had an outer fosse (ME036-048042-) that can be revealed through excavation as between the Dublin Gate and the castle. A stream, known as the Water of Luppard (Leppar?) still runs in a culverted form outside the Dublin Gate and fed into the fosse outside the S section of the castle’s curtain wall. The only surviving gate, the Sheep Gate, is a rectangular block (dims N-S; 3.6m E-W) that has an entrance passage with a round arch at either end. A vaulted passage leads S from the entrance passage to the Porch Field, and a doorway on the N side of the entrance passage leads to a newel or spiral stairs to an upper storey. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 10 July 2019

• ME036-048012 Church
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. According to Tíreachán in the 7th century followed by the later Tripartite Life of St Patrick, St Lomán, a disciple of Patrick and a Briton, was welcomed at Ath Truim – the ford of the ridge - by Fedhlim, son of Laoghaire, who granted him the north side of the river where Patrick established a church (Cogan 1862-70, 46-7; Potterton 2005, 34-52). Although the foundation of the church is recorded in the annals under 432 (AFM), the names of abbots and bishops occur with certainty only from the mid-8th century. Trim escaped the depredations of the Norsemen but it was burned in 784 (AU) and three times in the 12th century – 1128 (AU), 1143 (AFM), and 1155 (AFM). The ford is attested in shallow water above the bridge (ME036-048001-) (Conwell 1872-3, 361-2), but others consider Lomán as possibly belonging to the Colla Dá Chríoch of Armagh (Ó Riain 2011, 401). Although there is no physical evidence of a pre Anglo-Norman church at what became the parish church of Trim, and numerous other possibilities have been mooted (Potterton 2005, 59-65), the location and co-incidence of the name suggests it may have been on the same site as St Patrick’s parish church. A section cut through what was probably an E-W fosse or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 1.1m) under Loman St just W of the graveyard showed two clay fills but produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6, 1997), and raises the tantalizing possibility that it is an a-ceramic and pre Anglo-Norman feature. St Patrick’s parish church of Trim is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Its history and archaeological and architectural remains have been described thoroughly by Potterton (2005, 267-93), of which this is a summary. The earliest reference is from c. 1188. It had at least two chapels and possibly four, including one in the rood loft. Trim was a wealthy parish with a large rural area, and it was the head of a deanery. The ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV valued Trym and its chapel at over £40 (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 256). St Patrick’s was one of the wealthiest churches in Meath, and the post of rector or parish priest was a desirable one. Consequently it featured in many disputes, as a result of which many of its clergy are known (Conwell 1873, 409-10). Ussher (1622) describes the church as in reasonably good repair (Erlington 1847-64, 1, lxxx), and Dopping (1682-5) says the church was in good repair but the chancel was ruined since 1641. The windows were glazed, the floor was clay and the roof was of slates. At that time eight rural churches were associated with it, and the graveyard was enclosed by a stone wall (Ellison 1972, 8). The medieval church continued in use until the present Church of Ireland church was built on its site in 1803 (Lewis 1837, 2, 645), and this now serves as the Cathedral of Meath. Of the medieval structure, the shell of the chancel to the E of the present structure and the tower, located just N of the W end of the present church, survive. There is a base-batter on the present W wall, indicating that parts of it may be original. Part of a nave wall is under the N wall of the present church, and the scar of a wall on the E face of the tower suggests that it may have been a double nave church or had an aisle. The tower is rectangular (ext. dims 7.53m E-W; 6.58m N-S) with a base-batter and has a stairs tower (ext. dims 2.98m E-W; 1.55m N-S) projecting N from its NW angle. This is now entered from the outside, but was originally entered from the N-S barrel-vaulted ground floor, which now communicates with the W end of the church through a pointed neo-gothic doorway at S. The tower has four upper stages, the topmost being the belfry stage with twin-light transom openings on each face and small lights above. An armorial plaque on the W face of the tower bears the arms of de Burgh and Mortimer, from which a building date of 1372-1425 has been suggested for the tower (Hickey 1983), if the plaque is in its original position, but a 15th century date is likely in any case. The chancel (ext. dims 9.25m plus E-W; 8.4m N-S) has been ruined since 1641 and is now in a precarious condition, being made inaccessible for safety reasons. Its N and S walls survive to the eaves and a doorway in the N wall is blocked. In 1795 Cooper described a room attached to the N wall that was probably a sacristy (Price 1942, 99) and which does not survive. There is an elaborate three-light cusped ogee-headed window under a square hood-moulding with carved heads on the labels and open spandrels, which is inserted in the S wall and probably replaced two earlier windows. Graveslabs and fragments of tombs have been found in the vicinity of the chancel, but two of these at least have been moved to the ground floor of the church tower where five are displayed. Also in the tower there is an armorial plaque with three fish, two groups of three angels bearing armorial plaques, and a fragment illustrating six apostles that was originally from Ratoath and probably from a cross. An elaborate piscina or font is at the W end of the church (Roe 1968 101-05). At least five graveslabs or fragments of graveslabs are in the vicinity of the chancel and another fragment is built into the W end of the S wall of the present church. A headstone with the date 1694 is just NE of the tower, and another headstone with an illegible inscription in false relief is just S of the chancel. (Potterton 2005, App. 13, 394-412) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 16 February 2015

• ME036-048013 Architectural fragment
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 409-12) At least fifty fragments of medieval masonry, mainly of window tracery, can be seen in the vicinity of the church of St Patrick (ME036-048012-). Most of the pieces have been gathered together and piled at the west end of the medieval chancel, but others are to be found underneath some of the table tombs in the graveyard, and several decorated pieces have been placed in the vestibule of the tower. Among the various slabs and pieces of masonry that have been assembled into a ‘fire-place’ are some window mullions with grooves for glazing. Two mullions are each decorated with an undulating branch of ivy and oak leaves in relief. A number of ogee-headed windows are also represented among the scattered vestiges, at least one of which was at least triple-light. There are also pieces of doorjambs and capitals as well as gable fragments and part of a carved stone drain or gutter. A number of worked sandstone blocks were reused in the construction of the west door of the tower. In 1885 it was recorded (Butler 1854, 168) that ‘some years ago... the remains of another tomb and of a carved doorway [from Newtown Trim], for greater security were also inserted in the porch at the east end of Trim Church’. Butler also brought some decorated floor-tiles from Bective and others from Newtown Trim to St Patrick’s Church where he placed them in the wall of the vestry. In 1906 the tiles were still present (Anon. 1906, 449), but they are not visible today (2005). The ‘vestry’ of which Butler writes seems to be the ground floor of the tower, now used as an entrance porch. The present vestry was a later addition. In Butler’s time, the entrance to the church was through a door in the west wall of the nave. When the door was being blocked up, Butler took the opportunity to insert the piscina into the new wall. A flat, perforated, rectangular stone, measuring 35cm in height and 40cm in maximum width, has been incorporated into the wall of a shed beside the Old Rectory across the road from St Patrick’s Church (Fig. 11.33). The left hand portion of the stone is missing and it appears that, when complete, the stone would have measured at least 50cm across. At what would have been the centre of the stone, the three tear-shaped holes form a triskele similar to those on the ‘Thomas A' Beckett stone’, above (Fig. 11.6). This piece may have functioned as a window or for ventilation. Its provenance is not known, but it may have been brought here from the church across the road. A number of comparable triskele stones are known from eldwhere in Ireland, such as the two at Coole, near Ferbane, and the one from Taghshinny, near Ballymahon, Co. Longford (Manning 1994, 24-5; Corlett 2001, 41). Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048014 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 395, No. 2): Thirteenth/fourteenth-century Purbeck slab This monument was set by Butler into a disused doorway in the north wall of the ruined chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). A recent examination confirmed that this badly decayed memorial slab, now in two pieces, is of stone imported from the Isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire (Gittos and Gittos 1998, 5, 12, 13). Although usually described as ‘marble’, the stone from Purbeck is in fact a dark, fossiliferous limestone, favoured by masons in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This late-thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century, coffin-shaped slab also has indents for a marginal Lombardic brass inscription, enclosed on both the inside and outside by a lcm-thick border. Conwell (1872-3, 400-01) noted that there was a speck of greenish metal remaining in the inscription when he inspected it in the early 1870s. With the exception of a small number of letters, the lettering on the matrix is now indecipherable. Even when Conwell was writing in the 1870s it was impossible to decipher the name of the ecclesiastic, but he was able to identify a cross followed by the letters IVID and space for about six more letters. The name is followed by an inscription which Butler recorded as...HIC: RECTOR: ET: ARC[HILE V1TES]: HIC: JACET: IRA: DEI: PACIFICETVR: El: (Butler 1854, 155). The word archilevites has been translated as archdeacon. In England, monuments of this type are known from as early as the 1270s, but the presence at the head of this slab of what was once identifiable as the bust of an ecclesiastic under a pinnacled and crocketted canopy, led King (1994, 124) to suggest a date in the first decades of the fourteenth century. A monument of similar style is the tomb of Sir Richard de Boselyngthorpe, at Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire, which dates to c. 1290. [Length: 200cm; Width: 80-75cm; Depth of indent: c.2mm)

• ME036-048015 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 394-5, No. 1, Fig. 11, 1) Thirteenth/fourteenth-century cross-slab Set at floor level into north end of the west wall inside the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-), this small, coffin-shaped limestone cross-slab probably dates to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. It has an incised cross, the terminals, knop and centre of which are formed from compass-made circles. It was discovered during restoration work in 1937, ‘built into the north wall of the church, near the present organ chamber’ (from a placard). [Length: 69cm; Width: 26cm at top, decreasing to 16cm at bottom; Depth: 15cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048016 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005) App. 13, 396-7, No. 3: Fourteenth-century sandstone slab (Fig. 11.4) The central of three memorials set into the east wall inside the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-), this rectangular slab of red sandstone, now in two pieces, is decorated in high relief with a male (left) and a female bust side by side above a crucifixion. The male has curled hair that descends to level with his chin, which is bearded, while the lady wears a barbette with vertical pleats attached to a coif over which a veil descends to her shoulders. This variant of the wimple-and-veil headdress is known widely from slabs of this style in England, but only five examples have been recorded in Ireland. There is a possible pillow or headrest behind the busts. Christ is nailed to a floriated, mid-ribbed cross with two angels above his head swinging censers. He has a halo and his feet are crossed. John and Mary stand on either side, each haloed and dressed in a cloak and tunic. At the base of the slab is a twin-bodied beast biting the foot of the cross. From each tail of the beast grows an undulating stem of foliage that rises to support John and Mary respectively. The stem on the right (as one views it) is smooth and rounded (like the leaves at the top of the cross) and the leaves resemble fleur-de-lis, while the stem on the left is angular and the leaves may be those of a vine. The slab has no inscription. What is now the base of the slab has had a plaster or cement moulding of two shamrock leaves attached to it, but it seems likely that this base section was added to the slab in order to fill the nineteenth-century moulded surround. The edges of the entire slab may have been redressed to make it rectangular. Hunt (1974, 1, 35-7; 215-16, No. 209) dates this slab to the second quarter of the fourteenth century. This is almost certainly the memorial of a wealthy merchant and his wife. A slab of similar style is to be found in Kells (Co. Meath). [Length: 191cm (174cm excluding basal panel); Width: 52cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048017 Armorial plaque
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 406-08) Among the medieval plaques and slabs mounted on the N wall of the vestibule of the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) are two rectangular fossiliferous limestone tablets each comprising three rectangular compartments. As with the piscina, each of the compartments is decorated in false relief with an angel carrying an armorial shield. The arms on the first plaque, at the W end of the wall, is in considerably better condition thatn the one on the right (E), but the quality of the carving also appears to be higher. The arms on the W plaque (fig. 11, 26) are: 1) Sable on a fess between three crescents as many estoiles. These arms have been tentatively identified with the FitzSimon family, although the connection with Trim is unclear (Hickey 1988-9, 132). 2) A very unusual shield. A lion rampant debruised by a fess, within a border wavy. Hickey (ibid. 132) suggested that it may represent the arms of the de Lacy family, usually or, a lion rampant purpure, but this is by no means certain. 3) Or, four lions rampant in quadrangle; 1 and 4 sable; 2 and 3 gules (the arms of Queen Phillipa, wife of Edward III and mother of Lionel, duke of Clarence). Hickey (ibid. 133) suggested that this shield may represent a member of the Bathe family, who were prominent in Dublin and Meath in the fifteenth century. It is clear that these plaques and the piscina belong to the same ensemble, and the available evidence suggests that they date to the fifteenth century (ibid. 132). The possible de Lacy shield, the arms of the Virgin Mary and the fact that both the duke of York and Edward IV made grants to St Mary’s Abbey (Stat. Ire. 12-22 Edw. IV P 42-7) have prompted Hickey (1988-8, 129, 134) to argue that the plaques, together with the piscina, may originally have formed part of an armorial scheme in the Priory of St Mary at Trim. There is evidence, however, that these items were indeed original to St Patrick’s Church. A seventeenth-century manuscript (TCD MS 807, fo. 380) in Trinity College Dublin contains drawings of the shields from the St Patrick’s piscina under the heading ‘in ecclesia de Trim [Dimensions of the plaques: Height: 35cm; Width: 60cm; Depth: c.4cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048018 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 397, No. 4): This large rectangular slab has been set up as a table tomb on a low side panel at the base of the window in the ruined chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). An incised marginal gothic inscription reads HIC: IACET.I [W]ALTERVS: THOVMBE: DE TRVM:/ Q‘: OBIIT: XVIII:. DIE: JVNII: A:D: M: CCCC: LVIII/. The letters on the first three sides of the inscription are spaced wide apart (c. 12cm), whereas those on the fourth side closer together (c. 3 cm). The central portion of the slab is undecorated, with the exception of three rows of three small circular depressions arranged in a square towards the base of the slab. It is not known what this design represents, although it seems to be contemporary with the Latin inscription. When Austin Cooper visited the churchyard on 15 May 1795 he recorded the inscription and wrote that ‘there was another which I could not read’ (Price 1942, 99). It is not clear what exactly he meant by this. [Length: 212cm; Width: 110cm; Thickness: 12cm], Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048019 Font
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 402-06, figs 11. 22-5) Piscina Set into the back wall of the present nave of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) is a possible fifteenth-century piscina (FitzGerald 1921-5). The receptacle and the shaft to which it is attached were brought here from the ruined chancel and were assembled by Butler in the nineteenth century (Butler 1854, 163-4). As a piscina, it is unusual in that it seems to have been designed as an almost freestanding feature rather than something that was set into a recess or fenestella. The half-octagonal shaft must have been positioned against a wall and probably sat on a stone base. The round bowl, which is 11cm deep, has a small drainage hole which must originally have drained into some form of channel to allow the water to be evacuated. As the drainage hole is not at the base of the bowl, a later channel was chiselled to enable even the last drops of water to drain out. The bowl is surrounded externally by a double moulded rim, which also seems to be octagonal (not all sides are visible), above a thick chamfered band. This concave band is decorated with zoomorphic carvings in relief. The first animal (from left) is a dragon. The second creature resembles a manticora, described in medieval literature as a beast from India with ‘a threefold row of teeth meeting alternately, the face of a man, with gleaming blood-red eyes: a lion’s body: a tail like the sting of a scorpion, and a shrill voice.... it hankers after human flesh most ravenously’ (White 1954, 51-2, 247). The manticora in Trim is reminiscent of a thirteenth-century illustration in which the human head of the ‘manticore’ is also wearing a hat. The Trim manticora has hoofed feet, which is unusual, but there is known to have been some confusion between the manticora and another Indian beast, the leucrota, which does have hooves (ibid. 48-9). In Trim, the tail of the manticora interlinks with that of a creature with a line of angular ridges along its spine, namely a Crocodyllus. Although this creature looks little like what we today would know as a crocodile, it is clearly a crocodyllus as represented in medieval bestiary (ibid. 49-51). The illustration of the crocodyllus in White’s book of beasts suggests that it was drawn by someone who had never seen a crocodile but to whom a description of the animal was given. It has sharp claws, a long tail, a ridge along its back and long teeth. At the right of the frieze is a fox with a goose in its mouth. The animal frieze curves outwards slightly where it is attached to the wall on each side and on the right hand side it is ‘closed’ by the curving, bushy tail of the fox. Beneath the animal representations, and in marked contrast to that theme, four vertical rectangular panels, each measuring 18 by 34cm, are decorated armorial shields. Each panel is framed by a flat moulding, and the shields are held by winged angels. Also within each panel, at the base of the shield, is a decorative wavy line. Traces of red, yellow and blue tinctures survive on the shields. Although these may derive from nineteenth-century oil paint, it is quite possible that they are all that remains of the original tinctures. One of the shields is blank, but the other three can been identified (Hickey 1988-9, 129-31): Shield 1 (from left): The arms of Butler (or, a chief indented azure). Hickey believed that this shield represented James Butler (the White Earl), fourth earl of Ormonde. Butler and Richard, duke of York were long time allies and, at the time of his death in 1452, Butler was York’s deputy (Roe 1968, 103). Shield 2: The arms of Edward III (quarterly France ancient and England). Edward III was a great-grandfather of Roger Mortimer (d. 1398). Shield 3: Quarterly England and France modem, over all a label of three points, the arms of Richard, duke of York impaling quarterly Mortimer and de Burgh. The top of this shield is broken—two points only of the label can be seen and no torteaux are visible. Pinches gives the arms of Anne, countess of Cambridge (1390-1411), as quarterly France ancient and England with a label of three points argent charged with as many torteaux, impaling Mortimer and de Burgh quarterly—this shield exactly. Hickey (1988-9, 130) points out that since 1405 France modem was used in the royal arms of England and goes on to state that ‘there can be no doubt but that this shield represents the arms of Anne Mortimer [sic], grandmother of Edward IV and mother of Richard, duke of York’. Shield 4: There is a slightly raised ridge running vertically down the centre of this shield, but otherwise it is blank. Every part of the panel, including the hand of the angelic messenger holding it, is perfectly carved, so there is no reason to believe that it is unfinished. There are some very small patches of red tincture and Roe (1968, 102-3) was of the opinion that the arms on this shield were originally shown by colour only. Hickey suggested that the shield may represent a royal infant who died before he was granted arms. A blank shield can be found on the Great Gate of Trinity College, Cambridge (built between 1490 and 1535). Hickey (1988-9, 131) posited the view that the blank Trim shield represented George of Windsor, the infant son of Edward IV. Bom in 1478, George was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, but died the following year (1479). The piscina is set on top of a moulded octagonal limestone slab which in turn rests on a sandstone capital with fluted scallops. The orange colour of the sandstone capital does not blend in well with the rest of the font, but it is half-octagon in shape and it is easy to see why the person erecting this ensemble thought it would be appropriate. The sandstone piece is Romanesque in style, and may have been brought here from St Mary’s Augustinian priory. [Dimensions of piscina: Height: 53cm; Width: 60cm; Diameter: 52cm; Diameter of basin: 11cm], Set vertically into the wall behind this piscina is a shallow, octagonal, limestone basin. This feature almost certainly functioned originally as a piscina. Some late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century piscinas have two basins; one for rinsing the communion vessels and the other for washing hands—although the Trim example surely dates to the fifteenth century, it may also have had two basins originally. The piscina at Trim is one of a series of fonts and piscinas from Co. Meath. The fonts at Dunsany, Killeen and Clonard have shields held by winged angels (Roe 1968, 22, 28, 34, 50, 53, 103), while monsters appear on fonts at Crickstown and Kilcame (ibid. 40, 60-6). The piscina at Trim also bears a number of similarities to a series of elaborate fifteenth-century English fonts, all from churches in East Anglia.194 Several of these fonts are octagonal, each side having a vertical rectangular panel, on a number of which a winged angel holds an armorial shield. Wild beasts are also commonly represented on these fonts. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048028 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on a fairly steep S-facing slope on the N bank of the River Boyne. Archaeological testing (98E0556) during 1998 uncovered archaeological features (Seaver 1998, 2000) that were further investigated in 2001 under the same licence (Clarke 2001; 2003). Beneath topsoil was an extensive layer of loamy clay containing a mixture of medieval and post-medieval pottery. Features revealed include evidence of two houses and two burgage plots with cobbled surfaces. This burgage plot is represented by a WNW-ESE boundary wall c. 50m from the river meeting a NNE-SSW wall at its E end that could be traced in sections further S (L c. 50m) to the original edge of the river and then turned W but the breadth of the plot cannot be gauged as a W boundary was not identified. An area of cobbling sloping down to the S was inside the SE angle of the plot and could be interpreted as a quay. The original edge of the river is c. 5m behind the present river wall, and most of the material behind the river wall is builders rubble and clay, and probably fairly modern, although trenches were not bottomed. There are three gateways through the river wall on the N bank, with steps behind them and they are probably eighteenth century in date. (Clarke 2001, 21-2, 28-30, 34-5; 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048029 House - medieval
  Description

  Located on a fairly steep S-facing slope on the N bank of the River Boyne. Archaeological testing (98E0556) during 1998 uncovered archaeological features (Seaver 2000) that were further investigated in 2001 under the same licence (Clarke 2001; 2003). Beneath topsoil was an extensive layer of loamy clay containing a mixture of medieval and post-medieval pottery. Features revealed include evidence of two houses and two burgage plots with some cobbled surfaces. Close to the S end of the urban plot defined by stone walls (ME036-048028-) an E-W clay-bonded wall extended off to the W but turned S at its E end and had a cobbled area to its N, probably a yard. It is thought to be late medieval or post-medieval. (Clarke 2001, 23-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048030 House - medieval
  Description

  Located on a fairly steep S-facing slope on the N bank of the River Boyne. Archaeological testing (98E0556) during 1998 uncovered archaeological features (Seaver 2000) that were further investigated in 2001 under the same licence (Clarke 2001; 2003). Beneath topsoil was an extensive layer of loamy clay containing a mixture of medieval and post-medieval pottery. Features revealed include evidence of two houses and two burgage plots with some cobbled surfaces. Further W than the house (ME036-048030-) a layer of cobbles, probably associated with the stone-walled burgage plot (ME036-048028-) sealed a silty clay layer which overlay the clay floor of a house. Beneath this was a medieval occupation layer with a wall at its N edge (Clarke 2001, 25-6). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048031 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on a fairly steep S-facing slope on the N bank of the River Boyne. Archaeological testing (98E0556) during 1998 uncovered archaeological features (Seaver 2000) that were further investigated in 2001 under the same licence (Clarke 2001; 2003). Beneath topsoil was an extensive layer of loamy clay containing a mixture of medieval and post-medieval pottery. Features revealed include evidence of two houses and two burgage plots with some cobbled surfaces. A WNW-ESE channel just E of the burgage plot (ME036-048028-), at the water’s edge and parallel with it, could have provided the river-side boundary of another plot, and evidence of a palisade was found in an excavated sample. Up the slope a similar NNE-SSW channel cut into subsoil about 10m from the long boundary wall of the stone-walled burgage plot (ME036-048028-). However, it was not parallel with the stone wall and contained eighteenth century material so it is not a medieval boundary and could be a furrow. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048035 House - medieval
  Description

  Located on the S side of the Main Street. Archaeological excavation (01E1146) in 2001 identified house remains (Hayden 2001), which were excavated under the same licence in 2002 (Hayden 2002). The earliest feature was a N-S gully (max. Wth 1.4m; max. D 0.44m) that was truncated at either end and produced some sherds of Leinster cooking ware. The gully, with three unlined hearths on its E side, was covered by a loam deposit (T 0.2-0.3m). An E-W trench (Wth 1.3m plus; D 0.8m) cut through the loam and subsoil and was bordered by a stone wall and clay floor (dims c. 8m x c.8m; T 0.2m) on its S side. The bases of various hearths lay on this floor but no other walls were evident. A pit which cut through the clay floor is interpreted as a kiln. Post-dating all this are the foundations of a drystone-built house (int. dim. 4.75m N-S), the W wall of which was complete together with part of the oxidised clay floor. Outside the house to the W were two rectangular pits. A clay floor with a central hearth was laid down over the area, and this was followed by another clay floor and hearth, which appears to have been used in iron smelting. A large house with double-faced stone walls (Wth 0.9-1m) was built in a pit at the W edge of the area but only its SE angle (dims 4.3m N-S; 3.4m plus E-W) was excavated. It used the gravel subsoil as the first floor that was covered by a thin occupation level, a clay floor with a stone-based hearth and a thicker occupation layer of burnt and organic material. A partly stone-lined cess-pit abutted the outside of the S wall and a channel extended E from the E wall. A rough N-S drystone wall further E, an associated clay floor and three hearths are contemporary with the house. These were covered with a layer of ash, charcoal and oxidized clay. Three hearths were within these deposits and a large hearth was on top of it with a rough stone cobbled area. Some pits from an upper level, one with a dressed stone with a chamfered edge, cut through these surfaces. When the stone-built house became defunct it was covered in a dump of yellow clay and loam containing line-impressed floor tiles and thirteenth to fifteenth century ceramics, and what was probably a humus developed. In the later seventeenth or early eighteenth century a small clay-bonded stone-walled building was built at the W of the site. Only parts of the W and S walls survived, but its thick clay floor produced a sherd of Westerwald stoneware. This building was replaced by another in the same area. The walls of houses that are probably those on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map were identified. (Hayden 2002) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 July 2019

• ME036-048036 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. A church may have been founded by St Patrick at what later became St Patrck’s parish church (ME036-048012-) in Trim. There is no physical evidence of this but a section recorded in archaeological monitoring (96E0175) cut through what was probably an E-W fosse or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 1.1m) under Loman St just W of the graveyard (ME036-048051-). It had two clay fills but produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6; 1997), and raises the tantalizing possibility that it is an a-ceramic and pre Anglo-Norman feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048037 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. A church may have been founded by St Patrick at what later became St Patrck’s parish church (ME036-048012-) in Trim. There is no physical evidence of this but two shallow pits recorded in archaeological monitoring (96E0175) under Loman St. just SW of the graveyard (ME036-048051-) produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6; 1997). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048041 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. The church founded by St Patrick at Ath Truim may have been on the site of the later medieval parish church (ME036-048012-). A section cut through what was probably an E-W fosse or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 1.1m) under Loman St just W of the graveyard (ME036-048051-) showed two clay fills but produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6, 1997), and raises the tantalizing possibility that it is an a-ceramic and pre Anglo-Norman feature, possibly part of an ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2015

• ME036-048045 Prison
  Description

  Situated on the N bank of the canalised WNW-ESE River Boyne as it passes through Trim, with the stream immediately to the SW. Provision of a town gaol is stipulated in a charter of 1430, but whether one was provided then is not known (Potterton 2005, 136). A prison (ME036-048085-) is associated with the castle from the beginning, but by the seventeenth century it was in disrepair and enticements for the lesee of the manor to construct a new structure at the castle were ineffectual. By c. 1617 the court had become established on the site of Franciscan friary (ME036-048025-) (Hennessy 2004, 12), and the goal had moved to Mill St. by 1684. The form of the Mill Street building is not known, but it had been replaced by a new prison building in 1760 (ibid. 12). This was extended c. 1805 and extended again in 1823 to include a treadmill, 36 cells, 4 debtors’ rooms, 7 dayrooms, a chapel, and a hospital room. This wasn’t enough to sustain it and it was closed in 1833. It seems to have been U-shaped with two or three wings extending from the street frontage towards the river as depicted on the 1836 OS 6-inch map where it is described as the ‘Old Gaol’. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July 2019

• ME036-048046 Building
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief (E000404) in 1987 uncovered evidence of a medieval building and other features (Walsh 1988). A trench (dims c. 13m NW-SE; c. 7m NE-SW) was opened mechanically and excavated below modern disturbance and garden soil (T c. 0.7m) at the N end where stratified medieval deposits survived (dims c. 4m x c. 5m). A layer of gritty silt, interpreted as the original sod contained animal bone and was overlain by thin layers with charcoal flecks. This was covered by a sandy clay containing animal bone and a shale bracelet. This surface was covered by garden soil, which was sealed by a cobbled surface. The cobbles were breached by a pit containing Ham Green and local wares as well as an antler comb. The pit was sealed by an organic layer under redeposited river gravels. The area was bordered at NE by a NW-SE wall (L 4m) of drystone construction that was robbed (Wth c. 1.5m) but had been built on the subsoil, whether inserted or not is not known. A slot-trench (L 4.5m plus; Wth 0.6m; D 0.3m) extended NE from its S end. The wall and trench are interpreted as from a house that extended further NE and NW, and at least one floor was recognised, although no internal features were evident. About 12m to the W a NE-SW ditch (ME036-048047-) was sampled. (Walsh 1990-91, 42-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July 2019

• ME036-048047 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief (E000404) in 1987 uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief the NW wall of the new structure was found to be on the line of a large NE-SW ditch (Wth of top 3m plus, D 2.5m) which was sealed beneath 2m of limestone rubble. The ditch was relatively straight-sided with a flat bottom and was filled with a fairly homogenous water-logged brown peat containing animal bones and sheep or goat horn as well as fragments of wood and lenses of straw that were rich in macro-environmental material. No pottery or other artefacts were recovered, which suggests a pre- Anglo Norman date (Walsh 1990-1, 46). The environmental samples support this and suggest that while food waste was being deposited in the ditch, it was in open, fairly wet grassland with some arable in the vicinity (Collins 1990-1, 63-7). A ditch or pit (Wth of top c. 5m; D 2.1m plus) which produced no dateable material was uncovered in archaeological testing (19E0573) by L. Coen just to the SW (excavations.ie 2019: 245, 602). If it is a ditch it is probably a continuation of this feature. (Coen 2019) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019 Amended: 30 April, 2021

• ME036-048048 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief (E000404) in 1987 uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief a builder’s trench cut a large medieval pit (dims c. 3.5m x 1.5m plus; D 1.5m plus) with steeply sloping sides at the NW edge of the development site. The pit was filled with yellow clays leavened with dark organic layers and it cut through stratified medieval layers which were beneath a substantial NE-SW wall (ME036-048050-). (Walsh 1990-91, 45) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019

• ME036-048049 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief in 1987 (E000404) uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief at the N angle of the development area undisturbed medieval stratigraphy (D c. 0.4m) was identified. Medieval pottery was recovered from these layers but no features were present apart from one cobbled layer. The medieval layers were sealed by a layer (T 0.4m) of fragmented fired clays with straw inclusions and some smooth surfaces, suggesting that a brick kiln may have been in the vicinity, but no structural evidence of a kiln was unearthed. (Walsh 1990-91, 45-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019

• ME036-048050 Structure
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief (E000404) in 1987 uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief a substantial wall (L 8m plus; Wth of base 1.8m; max. H 1m) with base-batters on both faces was identified running NE-SW over the area of the house (ME036-048046-) and parallel with the present street. A sherd of medieval cooking ware was recovered from the fabric, and the wall was sealed beneath garden soil and rubble. (Walsh 1990-91, 45) A wall (Wth 0.95-1.2m) was uncovered in archaeological testing (19E0573) by L. Coen c. 20m to the NW (excavations.ie 2019: 245, 602). It has the same alignment as this wall and the street, and extends off to the NE (L 15m plus) just outside the rear wall of the Library. It has a drain (Wth 0.8-1m; D 0.5m plus) on its SE side and is thought to be medieval although there were no artefacts associated with it. (Coen 2019) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July 2019 Amended: 30 April, 2021

• ME036-048051 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. St Patrick’s medieval parish church (ME036-048012-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by masonry walls, and Dopping (1682-5) records the graveyard as enclosed by a stone wall at that time (Ellison 1972, 8). Its headstones date from c. 1750-2010. Archaeological monitoring (05E0537) of development works immediately to the E recorded the inhumed remains of 31 individuals that were laid supine W-E with the heads at W (Kiernan 2005, 2010). These would be part of the graveyard. Archaeological testing (10E0239) immediately S of the graveyard produced no related material or medieval stratigraphy (Sweetman 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 February, 2015 Amended: 9 July, 2019

• ME036-048061 Armorial plaque
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 406-08) Among the medieval plaques and slabs mounted on the N wall of the vestibule of the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) are two rectangular fossiliferous limestone tablets each comprising three rectangular compartments. As with the piscina, each of the compartments is decorated in false relief with an angel carrying an armorial shield. The arms on the first plaque, at the W end of the wall, is in considerably better condition thatn the one on the right (E), but the quality of the carving also appears to be higher. The shields on the second (E) plaque show (fig. 11, 27): 1) Quarterly, 1 and 4, w bend, in sinister chief a tower (Plunkett). 2 and 3 a field chequy (a chequy shield appears on the fifteenth-century Plunkett Tomb at Dunsany and possibly represents a member of the same family — Hickey (1988-9, 133) suggested that it was a gentleman (perhaps a Warren) whose daughter and heiress married one of the Plunketts). 2) This shield is badly cracked. Quarterly, 1 and 4, a lion rampant with a bordure engrailed; 2 and 3, two lions passant. Hickey (ibid.) believed that the arms were those of Talbot and Strange quartered. 3) A heart pierced in saltire by two swords. These arms were first used in the fifteenth century to represent the Virgin Mary and often appear in churches dedicated to her. In Ireland, this coat of arms can be found on the fifteenth-century Maud Plunkett tomb in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Malahide (Co. Dublin), and on a tomb of the same period in St Mary’s Church at Killeen (Co. Meath). On the font in the ruined medieval church at Dunsany (Co. Meath), one of the angels holds a shield depicting a heart pierced saltire-wise by two swords. It is clear that these plaques and the piscina belong to the same ensemble, and the available evidence suggests that they date to the fifteenth century (ibid. 132). The possible de Lacy shield, the arms of the Virgin Mary and the fact that both the duke of York and Edward IV made grants to St Mary’s Abbey (Stat. Ire. 12-22 Edw. IV P 42-7) have prompted Hickey (1988-8, 129, 134) to argue that the plaques, together with the piscina, may originally have formed part of an armorial scheme in the Priory of St Mary at Trim. There is evidence, however, that these items were indeed original to St Patrick’s Church. A seventeenth-century manuscript (TCD MS 807, fo. 380) in Trinity College Dublin contains drawings of the shields from the St Patrick’s piscina under the heading ‘in ecclesia de Trim [Dimensions of the plaques: Height: 35cm; Width: 60cm; Depth: c.4cm].

• ME036-048062 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 400, No. 8): Coffin-shaped graveslab (thirteenth-fourteenth century) The fragment of a thirteenth - fourteenth century coffin-shaped limestone graveslab has two chamfered edges and traces of a fleur-de-lis cross could be made out in 1984 (Bradley and King 1985, 166). This slab is partly buried outside the south wall of the chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). Bradley noted that its dimensions (L: 43cm; W: 19cm; D 7cm) indicated that it was probably for a child. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048063 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 397-8, No. 5): Sixteenth-century slab (John Ward, d. 1509) (Fig . 7.4) This memorial slab is the southernmost of the three memorials set into the east wall inside the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). It was uncovered, face-down, at a depth of 5 feet, during the preparation of the foundations for the present chancel in the nineteenth century (Callary 1899, 35). The slab was then inserted into the floor of the porch and remained there until at least 1906 (this may explain why the surface of the slab is so smooth, almost polished). It is a plain rectangular limestone slab with a marginal gothic inscription that reads HIC JACETI JOHANNES WARDE DECRETORUM DOCTOR QUONDAM ISTIUS ECCLESIAEI RECTOR QU1 OBIIT XX/ VI DIE FEBRUARII ANNO D Mo D VIIIIo). In the inscription, the second part of one letter is regularly used to form the first part of the next. The obituary of John Ward is recorded in the registers of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where it states Ob. Johannes Ward decretorum doctor atque ecclesie parochialis sancti Patricij de Trym quondam rector qui legauit priori et conventui in moneta v. marcas cuius anime propicietur deus amen' (Refaussé and Lennon 1998, 45). The title ‘Decretorum Doctor’ is apparently synonymous with Doctor of Canon Law. [Length: 188cm; Width: 78cm; Thickness: Conwell (1872-3, 401) was able to give the thickness of the slab as 5” [c. 13cm]]. (FitzGerald 1921-5, 219-20) Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048064 Graveslab
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 398-9, No. 6): Sixteenth-century slab (Martin/Delapatrick 1541 et seq.) (Fig. 7.10) This coffin-shaped limestone slab was discovered by gravediggers in the old chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) in 1844, erected by Butler in the porch, removed, broken and stored in the rectory coach-house until it was inserted by Archdeacon Berry into the north wall of the vestry (Conwell 1872-3, 397-8). It was still in the vestry in 1906 but was subsequently set into the east wall inside the tower, where it is the northernmost of the three memorials (Anon. 1906, 448). The four broken pieces of the slab have been crudely reassembled and the whole is set in modem stone frame. The lower part is decorated with a plain, short, eight-armed cross in false relief within a circle, rising from five steps. The cross has a diamond-shaped centre within which is a small Greek cross, and below the circle [on the left as one views it] is a Tudor rose. The remainder of the slab has a raised and incised gothic inscription, much of which is now missing (one detached flake, measuring 12 x 13cm x 4mm, with part of the inscription, is stored in a display cabinet at the back of the nave). There is a comma after each word of the inscription, which reads HIC I[ACET W]ALTERUS MARTI 1NUS [QUONDA]M DE TRYMI [BURGENSIS] CU PARENTIBUSI [AVIS ET PR]OAVIS SUIS ET ETIAI [JENETA D]ELA PATRICK UXOR EIUSI [QUI OBIIT MEN]SE IUNII ANNO SAL/[UTIS 15]41. HIC QUOQue JACET! [NICHOL\AUS MARTINUS FILIUSI [DICTI W]ALTERI ET IENETE CUMI [UXORE] SUA KATHER1NA ASPOLLI QUI OBIIT XXV° DIE IUNII ANNO DNI 1590 CUIUS FILIUSWALTERUS, MA/[RTINUS ET JEN]ETA GERRY EIUSI [UXOR HOC MONUMENjTU FIERI FEZ A break in the slab has made a line illegible here (it may have given the date of the erection of the memorial). Beginning upside-down on the right side of the bottom step of the cross (first three words) and then running vertically up the left side of the slab is an inscription that reads HOC EST SIGNU/ HUMANE REDEPTIONIS ET INSIGNE XIANU/BAPTISIMATE/ (the word BAPTISIMATE appears on the steps) DATU QUO MORS XI RECOLITUR ET DIABOLUS/ FUGATUR/. Beneath the word FUGATUR is the Tudor Rose. To the right of the cross (as one views it) there is an incomplete vertical inscription (running downwards), in a different style of lettering, which reads YMIA NOS G\ANUIT\... NITIS YMIA GA\/... ASTRA COLUNT ANIMAE CORPO[RA TERRA T]ENET. There is also a raised ‘blackletter’ inscription on the shaft of the cross, which has not been recorded, and is now illegible. It was possibly the sculptor’s name. [Length: 165cm; Width: 70cm at top, decreasing to 57cm at base; Thickness: Conwell (1872-3, 397) was able to give the thickness of this slab as 4" [c. 10cm]]. (FitzGerald 1921-5, 220) Date of upload: 15 February, 2015

• ME036-048065 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 399-400, No. 7, fig. 11, 6): The ‘Thomas A' Beckett stone’ Uncovered in the 1860s by workers digging the foundations of the new chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) (Callary 1899, 46), this slab was for a time (until at least 1906) (Anon. 1906, 449) set into the north wall of the ruined chancel (to the left of no. 2, above), but is now attached by iron supports and cement to the wall above the ‘fire-place’ inside the tower. It is a rectangular granite slab decorated in false relief with two panels, on the smaller of which is the bust and torso of an archbishop, slightly off centre beneath a cusped ogee-headed canopy. The archbishop’s right hand is held to his chest, perhaps clutching a pectoral cross, or in a gesture of blessing, while in his left hand he holds a simple knopped cross-staff. He wears a mitre, a pleated cassock and a collared chasuble. The other panel, which takes up almost two thirds of the slab, has eight circles enclosing triskeles arranged in three rows with two cusped semi-circles at either end of the middle row. The slab has a carved frame on three sides, but the fourth side is open, indicating that there may originally have been a further panel. Roe suggested that this slab may be a copy of the shrine of Thomas A' Beckett (Bradley and King 1985, 1, 169). [Length: 88cm; Width: 136cm; Thickness: 10cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048067 Cross
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 400-01): This freestanding hexagonal shaft is now located in the ground floor of the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-), but it has been suggested that it was brought here from Ratoath (Roe 1966, Pl. 23). The shaft is decorated with the carved figures of six bearded and moustached apostles (Figs 11, 11-17). The figures have curled hair and flat caps and they wear tunics and mantles. Each apostle is identifiable due to his individual iconographic attributes—Bartholomew, who was flayed to death, is depicted holding a flaying knife; James Minor carries a fuller’s club—the implement used to beat wool and cloth and with which James was slain; John, often associated with an eagle, is holding what seems to be a feather; Matthias is shown with an axe—the weapon with which he was beheaded; Andrew, who was crucified, is depicted with a saltire cross, while Thomas holds a spear to represent the manner of his death. Each apostle also carries a book in his left hand, and is set in a crocketed, cusped and pinnacled ogee-headed niche. The base has a small mortise and the upper part is broken. The upper part may have had another set of six figures (presumably the other six apostles) because the lower part of three figures can be seen on one side. This piece is among the finest sculptures produced in Ireland during the middle ages. Although its function is unknown, the stem of the apostle font in All Saints’ Church, Norwich, is similarly decorated (Gardner 1937, 302-04) and the shaft of a cross now housed in the Château Comtal at Carcassonne (France), also bears a striking resemblance (see Figs 11.18, 19). [Height: 80cm; Width: 26cm at top, increasing to 33cm at bottom; Depth: 20cm]. Date of upload: 15 February, 2015

• ME036-048068 Armorial plaque
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 401-02): A number of medieval slabs and various pieces of masonry have been assembled into what resembles a decorative fire-place in north wall of the porch of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). Among the slabs is a rectangular sandstone plaque with three horizontal fish below a what seems to be a form of crown. This slab was for a time set into the north wall of the ruined chancel and Conwell records seven loaves were present on it (1872-3, 401). In 1906 the plaque was still in the chancel and in that year it was described (Anon. 1906) as ‘a small armorial stone bearing three pikes in pale, surmounted by a coronet on which were seven fleur-de-lis, and a little leac on which a wheel-cross is incised’. A number of families have three fish in their coats of arms (e.g. Keane, Hackett, O’Gahan, Roache), and it is likely that this is indeed a heraldic plaque. A similar carved stone plaque, depicting three salmon, is in the chancel of the church at Monknewtown (Stout 2002, 94). The Trim plaque is now decaying rapidly in the damp conditions of the porch and is almost entirely covered in a dark green fungus. The wheel-cross is no longer visible and the edges of the slab are beginning to flake. [Height: 63cm; Width: 54cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048069 Armorial plaque
  Description

  From Potterton (2005, 287-8). Two thirds of the way up the west face of the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-) is an armorial shield showing the arms of de Burgh and Mortimer quartered; the shield is surmounted by a small bearded head carved into the same stone. From a study of this shield, Hickey has proposed a date somewhere between 1372 and 1425 for the construction of the tower, adjudging that it was erected during the tenure of either the third, fourth, or fifth earl of March and Ulster (Hickey 1983, 152). However, it has also been suggested that the tower was constructed by Richard, duke of York, lord lieutenant of Ireland from 1447 to 1460, who is known to have resided in Trim for a time in 1449 (Roe 1968, 4). William Elliot, an 18th century rector of Trim, described the arms as those of Richard, duke of York, and that tradition has been maintained by subsequent writers (Butler 1854, 163). Hickey disproved this attribution, however, showing that the arms were those of the duke’s mother’s family, the Mortimers. Even if Hickey’s dating of the shield to 1372-1425 is correct—which it probably is—the attribution of the tower itself to this period relies heavily on the assumption that the shield was incorporated into the tower as it was being built. This is difficult to prove. Although there is no evidence outside the frame of the shield for it being a later insertion (the stonework all blends together neatly), the fact that the frame is larger than the shield itself suggests that it may not originally have been assembled in this way. Whatever the case, it is doubtful if much time separated the construction of the tower and the incorporation of the shield. On the balance of evidence, then, it would seem that the tower was constructed before 1460. This would also fit in with the fact that the building of a large tower abutting one end of a parish church seems to have been a feature primarily of the fifteenth century. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

• ME036-048070 Graveslab
  Description

  The original chancel of St Patrick’s parish church (ME036-048012-) in Trim is presently inaccessible for safety reasons, but the graveslab of Thomas Ashe has been recorded by Conwell (1872-3, 401-03) as: In the north-eastern corner of the old chancel, level with the surrounding green sward, is a flat stone, measuring 6 feet long, 3 feet 3.5inches wide and 5 inches thick, and covering a vault beneath. The stone is from the quarry of Ardbraccan, about eight miles distant, and is apparently of about the date 1657. It has been broken into pieces, as will be seen from the accompanying engraving, all of which have been placed in juxtaposition, with the exception of that forming the left-hand lower corner of the slab, with which fragment is lost the commencement of the last three lines of the epitaph, which we have here ventured, on supposition, to restore in brackets. The upper portion of the stone is devoted to armorial bearings. On a shield – a chief ermine, three pheons, impaling two chevronels for Ashe; with two crests – a griffin’s head on a coronet, and a squirrel for Ashe (sic). On the lower part of the stone, in raised letters about 2 inches high, was cut the inscription, which we propose to restore as follows: Love and age have joynd in one / To lay th [ese] two under this stone / Sir Tho [mas] Ash his Lady Elizabeth / [Unite their ] ashes in this house of death / [and n]ow both having run their glasses / [They hop]e to be reviv’d from ashes. The author, whoever he may have been, of these doggerel lines, appears to have had no higher object than to make wordy capital out of the names of Elizabeth and Ashe. …. Sir Thomas Ashe was returned as Member of Parliament for the borough of Trim in 1613; but we have been unable to ascertain the date of his death. The family of Ashe held property in different parts of the county, as will be seen from an inspection of the Meath Inquisitions. One branch of the family, from the neighbourhood of Oldbridge, migrated immediately after the Battle of the Boyne to the North, and settling in the vicinity of Magherafelt, in the County of Londonderry, soon became intermarried with the principal families in that locality. (FitzGerald 1921-25, 222) Date of upload: 17 February, 2015

• ME036-048071 Graveslab
  Description

  The original chancel of St Patrick’s parish church (ME036-048012-) in Trim is presently inaccessible for safety reasons, but the graveslab of Greg and Griffith has been recorded by Evans (1903, 410-11) as: On a tomb in the old church, which has been lately restored by putting together the broken pieces which were in different places in the churchyard, is the following inscription: HERE LYE Ye BODIES OF JOHN GREG, DEAN OF LISMORE, AND FIRST VICAR OF TRIM, WHO DYED JANUARY 21, 1629: AND WILLIAM GRIFFITH, NEXT VICAR OF TRIM, WHO DYED --- (The date of this death was never filled in.) (FitzGerald 1921-5, 222-3) Date of upload: 17 February, 2015

• ME036-048072 Headstone
  Description

  The headstone (dims 0.33m x 0.8m; T 0.19-0.21m) of John Revell with a chamfer on one edge and an incised inscription is outside the NE angle of the church tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). The incised inscription has been read (FitzGerald 1921-5, 73) as: I R / JOHN REVELL / HIS BURING / PLEASCE WHO / DIED THE 24 / DAY OF IUNE / 1694. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 February, 2015

• ME036-048073 Graveslab
  Description

  This graveslab is set high up on the outer face of the W end of the church’s south wall. It has an incomplete incised inscription that has been read (Bradley and King 1985, 168) as: HIC JACE.. / KENED QV.. / PREPOSIT QV../ MA..N. / HABVT N../ GARRY ../ FILI.. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 February, 2015

• ME036-048074 Headstone
  Description

  Just outside the S wall of the chancel of St Patrick’s parish church (ME036-048012-) is a headstone (H c. 0.6m; Wth c. 0.3m) with an illegible inscription in false relief. It is the headstone of Margaret Boyle and has been described by FitzGerald (1921-5, 74) as: Fixed against the south wall of the ancient chancel is a headstone bearing this inscription: HERE LY / ETH THE BOD / Y OF MARGARET / BOYLE ALIAS PO /VGE WIFE TO MIC / HAEL BOYLE OF / TRIM WHO DEPAR / TED THIS LIFE T / HE FIRST DAY OF A / VGVST IN THE YEA / R OF OUR LORD / GOD 1731 AGED - / YEARS Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 4 March, 2015

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, now in use as tourist hostel. Ruled and lined cement rendered walls. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Square-headed openings with one original timber six-over-six sash window and later timber two-over-two sash windows. Late nineteenth-century shopfront comprising a double sash window with rendered stallriser to ground floor.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. Snecked limestone walls with ashlar quoins. Pitched slate roof, with stone chimneystacks and cast-iron gutter carried on corbelled cornice. Timber two-over-two sash windows with ashlar surrounds and stone sills. Round-arched stone doorcase with timber panelled door and fanlight. Modern extensions and stone boundary wall to rear.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey roughcast rendered house, c.1840. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron gutter carried on corbel cornice. Square-headed openings with timber two-over-two sash windows having ogee horns and stone sills. Integral carriage arch with ashlar limestone quoins. Round-arched stone doorcase with carved flanking pilasters.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Limestone wall built in two distinct phases running from Mill Street to the River Boyne, constructed c.1850. Lower section is constructed of limestone blocks roughly brought to course while the upper section is constructed of random limestone rubble. Square openings provide drainage from rear sites of buildings on Mill Street while cast-iron hooks project from the wall at regular intervals.

• Watergate Bridge, bridge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span road bridge, built 1904, consisting of four cast-iron spans resting on concrete piers. Triangular cutwaters on both the upstream and downstream sides of the bridge. Plaque to road side elevation.

• Crowpark House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800. Roughcast rendered walls, pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystacks. Square-headed openings with stone sills. Cast-iron balconette to central first floor window. Round-arched door opening with engaged Doric columns, fluted frieze and decorative lead fanlight. Rubble limestone boundary walls with rubble limestone gate piers and wrought-iron gate. Ranges of stone outbuildings to north and west.

• The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over concealed basement former glebe, built c. 1805, with central breakfront. Single-storey entrance porch with round-headed door opening having carved stone rope moulding and carved stone hood moulding above, approached by flight of stone steps. Timber panelled door, with carved timber doorcase, having fanlight above. Roughcast rendered walls and pitched slate roof. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Range of built stone outbuildings to rear. Rubble stone boundary walls with ashlar entrance piers.

• Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Trim), cathedral, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Church of Ireland cathedral, rebuilt 1802, comprising of three-bay side elevations to nave. Renovated c. 1869, and single-bay chancel added to the east, and gabled porch added to the north. Pitched slate roofs. Snecked limestone walls with buttresses and ashlar limestone dressings. Pointed arch openings with paired lancets having trefoils above to the nave. Pointed arch openings with carved stone tracery having hood mouldings above the east and west gables. Fifteenth-century castellated tower to north-west corner. Carved stone doorcase to tower. Chancel of the fifteenth century church to east. Recumbent, upright and table tombs of medieval to present date to graveyard. Rubble limestone boundary wall with ashlar gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, c. 1905, with ER VII insignia set in squared rubble limestone wall.

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace comprising six two-bay two-storey brick houses, built c.1910. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Moulded brick string course above openings at ground floor level. Segmental-arched window openings with stone sills. Segmental-arched door openings with overlights, stone steps and chamfered brick door surrounds.

• Hotel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace seven-bay two-storey former hotel, built c.1850, now in use as guest house and public house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneys. Rendered walls with render quoins. Timber panelled door with engaged Doric pilasters having fluted frieze and plain glass fanlight. Approached by limestone steps with cast-iron bootscraper. Integral carriage arch gives access to stone outbuildings to rear.

• House, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Roughcast rendered walls and pitched slate roof. Timber panelled door with overlight and carved stone doorcase. Timber two-over-two sash windows with stone sills and convex horns, some with original glass.

• Saint Patrick's National School, school, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Gothic Revival school, built c.1860. Snecked stone façade with corner buttresses. Cement rendered window and door surrounds. Group of three cast-iron diamond paned lancets window, set above timber battened double doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Plaque to entrance elevation. Limestone piers with cast-iron gate and railings to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800. Ruled and lined rendered walls with raised rendered quoins. Pitched artificial slate roof. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door, limestone block-and-start doorcase, fanlight and sidelights. Timber two-over-two sash windows with convex horns and stone sills. Cast-iron window guards. Stone outbuildings to rear.

• Blackhall House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800 with concealed basement. Pitched slate roof with cement rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled and lined rendered walls. Timber panelled door with overlight and stone steps. Timber six-over-six sash windows, with no window horns to upper floor, and convex horns to ground floor.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with concealed basement. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled and lined rendered walls. Timber panelled door, with stone step and overlight. Timber single pane sash windows with ogee horns.

• Ulster Bank, bank/financial institution, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey bank, built 1863. Ashlar limestone walls with channelled limestone and plinth to ground floor, and having carved frieze below parapet and continuos sill to first floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered chimneystacks and clay pots. Square-headed recessed openings with engaged limestone pilasters to first floor windows. Square-headed openings with raised stone surrounds to ground floor. Brass night safe to centre of façade. Modern interior.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Ruled and lined rendered walls. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and clay pots. Timber panelled door with overlight and moulded surround. Two-over-two sash windows with stone sills. Range of stone outbuildings to rear with pitched slate roofs, brick-arched openings and timber battened doors.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey over concealed basement house, built c.1830. Exposed stone facade. Hipped slate roof. Segmental-arched stone doorcase with panelled door and fanlight. Stone entrance steps and cast-iron bootscraper. Timber single pane sash windows with convex horns to ground floor. Timber six-over-six sash windows with convex horns on upper floor. Segmental-arched integral carriage arch with ashlar stone surrounds and timber battened doors.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey over concealed basement house, built c.1830. Exposed stone facade. Pitched artificial slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks. Segmental-arched stone doorcase with panelled door and fanlight. Stone entrance steps and cast-iron bootscraper. Timber six-over-six sash windows with stone sills. Cast-iron railings on a plinth to front elevation.

• House, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1835, with breakfront central bay. Snecked stone walls with limestone plinth and lead covered parapet. Segmental-arched stone doorcase, with timber panelled door, sidelights and decorative fanlight. Timber six-over-six sash windows with stone sills. Carriage arch to the east of house. Cast-iron spear-headed railings on limestone plinths to front.

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Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2613 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Townparks North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Townparks North · Páirceanna an Bhaile Thuaidh

Area

258,404 m² (25.84 ha, 63.85 acres)

Civil parish

Trim, and its townlands

Barony

Navan Upper

Electoral division

Trim Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trim Urban electoral division: 1,383 people in 589 households; 56% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackfriary (2nd Division), Commons (1st Division), Commons (5th Division), Corporationland (3rd Division), Crowpark (1st Division), Crowpark (2nd Division), Fostersholding, Manorland (1st Division), Townparks South

Placenames

Townparks North on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.