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Market-house

Townparks (Navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Market-house, Townparks, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Townparks (Navan Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65271, -6.68333
SMR number
ME025-044023-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The tholsel or market house was on Dublingate St, now called Ludlow St, at the junction with Market Square. It was described by Isaac Butler (1893) writing c. 1744 as a ‘low mean building’ that was demolished c. 1800. It had a vaulted cellar and was the centre of the butchery trade in eighteenth century Navan. The Court House was built on the site c. 1795-1805 but high up on its S wall is a stone commemorating the older building (Ellison 1963, 46-7). The inscription in false relief and gothic lettering reads: Edmund Manninge / was overseer / of this work in the / year of Our Lord /1632 on whose / soul the Lord / have mercy. See this web-page accessed on 08/07/2022 http://www.navanhistory.ie/index.php?page=tholsel

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 30 March 2023

Butler, I. 1892 A journey to Lough Derg (circa. 1749). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 22, 13-24, 126-36.
Ellison, C. C. 1963 Some aspects of Navan history. Ríocht na Mídhe, 3, 1, 33-56.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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