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Trim (Irish: Baile Átha Troim) is the traditional county town of County Meath in Ireland, although the county town is now Navan. The town was recorded in the 2006 census to have a population of 6,870. Bullet for locations in Ireland, displays location and not area. ...
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). ...
The Irish national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Ireland. ...
During late Gaelic and early historic times Ireland was divided into provinces to replace the earlier system of the tuatha. ...
Statistics Area: 19,774. ...
For much of its history, the island of Ireland was divided into 32 counties (Irish language contae or condae, pronounced IPA: ). Two historical counties, County Desmond and County Coleraine, no longer exist. ...
Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Navan Code: MH Area: 2,342 km² Population (2006) 162,621 Website: www. ...
Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x420, 343 KB) Summary Trim Castle (Dublin side). ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x420, 343 KB) Summary Trim Castle (Dublin side). ...
crest of de Lacy Lacy´s purple lion De Lacy (Lascy, Lacie) is an old Norman noble family originating from Lassy (Calvados). ...
A county town is the capital of a county in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. ...
Meath (An Mhí in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, the county is often informally called The Royal County. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
The closest neighbouring towns and villages are:
Each of these South Meath towns have strong cultural, historical and social ties, and an interdependency in terms of commerce, recreation and leisure, and administration. Athboy is a small agricultural town in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference N965526 Statistics Province: Leinster County: Population (2006) 3,384 Dunshaughlin (Irish: ) [1] is a town in County Meath in Ireland. ...
Kildalkey, (Cill Dealga, Dealgas Church, in Irish) is a village and a parish in the Barony of Lune, county and diocese of Meath, and province of Leinster, Republic of Ireland. The population of the village was 137 at the time of the 2002 Census. ...
Situated 61 metres above sea level on the River Boyne, Trim was one of the most important Hiberno-Norman settlements in the Middle Ages. In the 15th century the Norman-Irish parliament met in Trim. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is reputed to have been born in Dangan Castle between Trim and Summerhill, and a large column to him was erected in the town during British rule, in 1817. The town's main feature is Ireland's largest castle, Trim Castle; other features include two ruined church complexes, the Boyne River for fishing and the Butterstream Gardens, visited by Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales in the mid-nineties (no longer open to the public). The Boyne is a river in Leinster, Ireland, which course is about 70 mi (112 km) long. ...
The term Hiberno-Norman is used of those Norman lords who settled in Ireland, admitting little if any real fealty to the Anglo-Norman settlers in England. ...
The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
(14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...
The term Hiberno-Norman is used of those Norman lords who settled in Ireland, admitting little if any real fealty to the Anglo-Norman settlers in England. ...
A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ...
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
Summerhill has several meanings: Summerhill School, a school now located in Leiston, England. ...
Trim Castle (Dublin Side) Trim Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Atha Troim in Irish), Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of the largest Norman castle in Europe, and Irelands largest castle. ...
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George[2]; born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...
The Town Hall, known locally as the Market House, is reputed as one of Thin Lizzy's first concert venues, and has seen U2 and several other bands of worldwide influence play there over the years.
Trim's future
The development of a new town centre expansion zone immediately to the west of the existing town centre (at Townparks, Market Street and Emmet Street) is due to begin early in 2007. This new town centre will comprise open civic spaces, retail and office space, residential developments and a new headquarters for the Office of Public Works, or OPW, which is due to decentralise to the town by 2009. The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for Irish Government and historic buildings in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Trim Car Show An annual classic car show takes place in Trim every July, Trim Veteran and Vintage Rally has been running since 1985. It started in a small yard on Loman Street with just 23 cars. The founder, Norman Pratt, determined to expand the show, approached the Roundtree family who very kindly allowed The Porchfields to be used on the day. It has grown each year since then and there are now in excess of 500 cars and motor cycles on show.Many cars enter this for free to show the cars and hard work which can be admired.Many people come from around the globe to see this.
Trim Haymaking Festival Trim Haymaking Festival is another festival held in the town every mid-June. The Porchfields, an amenity space rich in historic value, are home to a fair, market, and cultural displays.The main event being the tradisional making of the first hay of the year by hand and by old method macinery.This year, the descendants of Josephine (Bridget) Lynch will be attending the event.
Trim Show An Agricultural Show takes place in the show in the first week of September each year, named "The Trim Show", and features trained dogs, as well as horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. Royal Meath Show, Trim Show Ltd.
Town history The town is home to Western Europe's largest Norman castle, Trim Castle (or King John's Castle) which was built in the late 12th century following the Norman invasion of Ireland's eastern seaboard. Trim and the surrounding lands were granted to Hugh de Lacy, a Norman knight. Richard II of England stayed there before being ousted from power 1412. Once a candidate to be the country's capital, the town has also occupied a role as one of the outposts of the Pale. It was also designated by Elizabeth I of England as the planned location for a Protestant Dublin University (known as Trinity College, Dublin). However this was revised by Sir Francis Drake, who advocated the case for locating the University in Dublin. In 1649 after the sacking of Drogheda, the garrison of Trim fled to join other Irish forces and the town was occupied by the army of Oliver Cromwell. There were many local disturbances in neighbouring villages in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, most infamously the massacre on the Hill of Tara, following the dispersal of the Wexford rebellion. Trim was represented by Arthur Wellesley in the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797. The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the nave is a forerunner of the Gothic style. ...
Pierrefonds Castle, France. ...
Trim Castle (Dublin Side) Trim Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Atha Troim in Irish), Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of the largest Norman castle in Europe, and Irelands largest castle. ...
Combatants Normans: Leinster, England, Fleming, Welsh, Irish Kingdoms: Ulster, Munster Connaught Norsemen Commanders Dermot MacMurrough, King Henry II, Strongbow, Raymond Carew, Richard Fitz Godbert Rhys ap Gruffydd, Maurice Fitz Gerald, Robert Fitz Stephen, Rory OConnor Askuluv Strength Note: All figures may vary according to source. ...
See Also de Lacy Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath (died 25 July 1186, Durrow, Leinster) was granted the lands of the Kingdom of Meath by Henry II in 1172 under the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland. ...
Richard II (January 6, 1367 – February 14, 1400) was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan The Fair Maid of Kent. He was born in Bordeaux and became his fathers successor when his elder brother died in infancy. ...
The Pale or the English Pale comprised a region in a radius of twenty miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against incursion from Gaels. ...
Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
Trinity College, Dublin TCD, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ...
Sir Francis Drake, c. ...
Dublin city centre at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ...
Drogheda, a town in eastern Ireland, was besieged twice in the 1640s, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ...
Kilkenny Castle, where the Confederate General Assembly met. ...
The New Model Army became the best known of the various Parliamentarian armies in the English Civil War. ...
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England, Scotland and Ireland into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. ...
Depiction of the battle of Vinegar Hill The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirà Amach 1798 in Irish), or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British dominated Kingdom of Ireland. ...
The Battle of Tara Hill was fought on 26 May 1798 between British forces and Irish rebels involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in a heavy defeat for the rebels and the end of the rebellion in County Meath. ...
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
This article is about the legislature abolished in 1801. ...
The 19th century saw the construction of Trim Courthouse, St. Loman's Catholic church, St. Patrick's Anglican church, the Wellington column, the current Bank of Ireland building, and Castle Street by Lord Dunsany, a major landowner. Following the Great Irish Famine of 1846-1849, the practices of agriculture in the hinterland altered, with a change in emphasis from tillage to stock raising. This resulted in a change in the business life of Trim. Trim developed as a market town for the productive agricultural hinterland. Some small scale local industries were developed including envelope, and leather product manufcturing. Trim was also chosen as location for the Timoney Engineering company to make Fire Tenders. However in the main the town continued to mainly be a service centre for its immediate area. Trim was the birth place of the mother of prominent Irish nationalist, Pádraig Mac Piarais. During the Irish War of Independence, local companies of the Irish Republican Army took Trim RIC Barracks, a large structure located on the current site of the Castle Arch Hotel, secured the arms from the barracks and then burnt down the Barracks (1920). A large part of the town was burned as a reprisal by the British Crown forces. The Bank of Ireland (ISEQ: BKIR_p) LSE: BKIR NYSE: IRE, officially known as the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland is a commercial bank operation on the island of Ireland, one of the Big Four. The bank was formed by an Act of the Irish Parliament in 1782...
The Barony of Dunsany was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1439. ...
Great Irish Famine may also refer to Great Irish Famine (1740-1741) This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
An Irish nationalist is generally one who seeks (greater) independence of Ireland from Great Britain, including since 1921 the goal of a United Ireland. ...
Patrick Henry Pearse (known to Irish nationalists as Pádraig Pearse; Irish: ; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. ...
Combatants Irish Republic United Kingdom Commanders Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy Cathal Brugha Important local IRA leaders Henry Hugh Tudor Strength Irish Republican Army c. ...
This article is about the historical army of the Irish Republic (1919–1922) which fought in the Irish War of Independence 1919–21, and the Irish Civil War 1922–23. ...
An Irish War of Independence memorial in Dublin The Anglo-Irish War (also known as the Irish War of Independence) was a guerrilla campaign mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army under the proclaimed legitimacy of the First Dáil, the extra-legal Irish parliament...
A new bridge was built on the Boyne in the 1980s to divert heavy traffic from the town. This was then enhanced by the construction, in a series of stages, of an inner relief road, which now makes it possible for heavy trafic to achieve a complete by-pass of the town in a cost effective manner. The Watergate bridge was replaced in 2005. The local town council purchased a field beside the new bridge for historical purposes in 2004, as it was likely to be of high archaeological significance. The Boyne is a river in Leinster, Ireland, which course is about 70 mi (112 km) long. ...
As part of the Civil Service decentralization plan of the Irish government, Trim was chosen as location of the headquarters for the state body known as the Office of Public Works. The movement of this state administration function to Trim resulted in Trim being the first location outside of Dublin, to complete a satisfactory decentralization move. Trim has seen considerable growth in recent years with a growing purpose as a tourist centre, and a town of vibrant businesses and cheerful locals. The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for Irish Government and historic buildings in the Republic of Ireland. ...
International reputation Longwave radio station Atlantic 252's broadcasting station was situated in Trim throughout the 1990s. The station's former buildings are now home to Trim Town Council and Trim Area Committee, two of the administrative bodies within the County of Meath. The Norman Castle around which the town has evolved was used to depict York Castle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. ...
Meath (An Mhí in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, the county is often informally called The Royal County. ...
A view from the outside of the tower York Castle is part of the city of York. ...
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American born Australian actor, director, and producer. ...
Braveheart (1995) is a historical action/drama movie produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role. ...
Gaelic Athletic Association The town is home to Meath footballers such as Jack Quinn and Darren Fay, and in recent times Brendan Murphy has emerged as the county team's star goalkeeper. Trim GAA Club have won the Meath Senior Football Championship on one occasion, in 1962. Trim is one of the two most successful teams (the other being Kilmessan) in the Meath Senior Hurling Championship, with both clubs between them winning almost half the championships played. Jack Quinn is a retired inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland. ...
Darren Fay is a successful Meath Footballer. ...
[[Image:|thumb|Meath Crest]] The Meath Senior Football Championship or the Keegan Cup is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Meath Clubs. ...
:For football equivalent see:Meath Senior Club Football Championship. ...
Trim movie history Trim Castle is a famous historical site and was used as a backdrop in the making of the film Braveheart. Trim was also the setting for the first full-length Irish martial arts movie Fatal Deviation. The low-budget production, made in 1998 and starring James Bennett, is the story of a disenfranchised young man trying to rebuild his life after returning from reform school only to be harassed by a gang of local drug dealers. The drug dealers kidnap his girlfriend in order to force him to lose the Bealtaine Fighting Festival so they can keep their reputation and control of Trim. Fatal Deviation also marks the acting debut of Mikey Graham, from Irish boyband Boyzone, as Mikey Oprano. The 1980 movie The Big Red One, starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill, was also partially shot in Trim and in particular Trim Castle. Trim Castle (Dublin Side) Trim Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Atha Troim in Irish), Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of the largest Norman castle in Europe, and Irelands largest castle. ...
Braveheart (1995) is a historical action/drama movie produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role. ...
Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ...
Michael Christopher Charles Graham, best known as Mikey Graham (born on 15 August 1972, in Dublin) is an Irish pop singer and former member of the boy band Boyzone. ...
Boyzone were an Irish boy band (pop group) of the 1990s. ...
Famous residents Famous individuals with ties to the town include... William Rowan Hamilton Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. ...
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and...
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
Best known as Lord Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (July 24, 1878–October 25, 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy and horror. ...
See also This is a link page for cities and towns in the Republic of Ireland, including larger villages, and villages and townlands of note, as well as towns, townships or urban centres in Dublin. ...
Market Houses are a notable feature of many Irish towns with varying styles of architecture, size and ornamentation making for a most interesting feature of the streetscape. ...
The Wellington Monument is 175 ft. ...
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Trim Castle Trim Castle (Dublin Side) Trim Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Atha Troim in Irish), Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of the largest Norman castle in Europe, and Irelands largest castle. ...
Coordinates: 53°33′16″N, 6°47′31″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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