Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Market-house
Townparks (navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.