Place:


Knockcommon  County Meath

 

In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Knockcommon like this:

KNOCKCOMON, or KNOCKMOON, a parish, in the barony of LOWER DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2 miles (S. E.) from Slane, on the road from Navan to Drogheda, and on the river Boyne; containing 902 inhabitants. It is a curacy, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Duleek; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda, to whom the tithes, amounting to £148. ...


1. 2 ½., are payable. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Donore, or Rosnaree, at which latter place there is a neat modern chapel, and another at the cross of Rathdrinath. About 80 children are educated in two private schools, to one of which Sir J. Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., allows a house and garden rent-free.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Knockcommon, in and County Meath | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/27306

Date accessed: 17th May 2024


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