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Mornington can also refer to a larger area, a half-parish, within the Laytown-Mornington [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] Parish established in 1986, and formerly part of the Parish of St. Mary's in Drogheda. |
Mornington can also refer to a larger area, a half-parish, within the Laytown-Mornington [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] Parish established in 1986, and formerly part of the Parish of St. Mary's in Drogheda. |
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⚫ | Mornington known variously as ''Villa Marinarii'', ''Marinerston by Colp'', ''Marinerstown'' or ''Mornanton'' was in medieval times a '[[manor]]' and though its [[tithe|tithes]] were granted by [[Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath|Hugh de Lacy]] in 1182 to support the [[Canons Regular|Augustinian]] Abbey at Colpe, (founded as a cell of [[Llanthony Priory]] in Monmouthshire), it was separate to the more extensive Manor of Colp, which took its name from ''Inbhear Colpha'' an older name for the area at the mouth of the Boyne. By the Civil Survey of 1654 however it was being considered as part of the [[Parish (administrative division)|Civil Parish]] of Colpe and it appears in [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]]'s "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" (1837) under [http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/C/Colpe-Duleek-Meath.php Colpe, or Colpe-cum-Mornington]. The Ozanam Home now sits on the site of 'Mornington House', Coney Hall, formerly the principal residence in the area and owned by the Brabazon family. A plaque dedicated to James Brabazon, Esq., who died in 1794, is found on the wall of the early church in the old graveyard of Mornington. The family's association goes back to their seventeenth-century ancestor, a Captain James Brabazon who fought at the [[Battle of Aughrim]]. |
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==Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger== |
==Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger== |
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[[File:Ladys finger.JPG|thumb|left|Lady's Finger]] |
[[File:Ladys finger.JPG|thumb|left|Lady's Finger]] |
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Mornington also contains the Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger, two structures most likely to have been navigational aids for ships entering the River Boyne. The original name of the Maiden Tower was Mayden Tower. The area was then known as Maydenhayes. The title Lord of Maydenhayes is currently in possession of Edmund J. McCormick, Jr, of [[Far Hills, New Jersey]] in the United States. The tower was already in existence by 1582 when it was proposed to build at [[Ringsend]] a tower of ''such height and strength as shalbe of a perpetual continuance like the tower at Drogheda''.<ref>de Courcy, J. 1996 ''The Liffey in Dublin''. Dublin. 243</ref><ref>http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/MeathsTownandVillages/Mornington/</ref><ref>http://ie.geoview.info/maiden_tower_mornington_co_meath,49672081p</ref> |
Mornington also contains the Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger, two structures most likely to have been navigational aids for ships entering the River Boyne. The original name of the Maiden Tower was Mayden Tower. The area was then known as Maydenhayes. The title Lord of Maydenhayes is currently in possession of Edmund J. McCormick, Jr, of [[Far Hills, New Jersey]] in the United States. The tower was already in existence by 1582 when it was proposed to build at [[Ringsend]] a tower of ''such height and strength as shalbe of a perpetual continuance like the tower at Drogheda''.<ref>de Courcy, J. 1996 ''The Liffey in Dublin''. Dublin. 243</ref><ref>http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/MeathsTownandVillages/Mornington/</ref><ref>http://ie.geoview.info/maiden_tower_mornington_co_meath,49672081p</ref> |
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⚫ | [[Bus Éireann]] route 190 provides several daily services between [[Laytown]] and [[Drogheda]] via [[Bettystown]] and Mornington.<ref>http://buseireann.ie/pdf/1261645889-190.pdf</ref> Matthews Coaches provide commuter routes to Dublin which serve Donacarney Cross and Laytown, Bettystown and Julianstown.<ref>http://commuter.matthews.ie/images/Bettystown-Laytown-Dublin_Rev004.pdf</ref> |
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==Fisheries== |
==Fisheries== |
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The mussel fishing involved a particular [[currach]]-style boat or punt and a mussel rake dredged by hand similar to that on the [[River Conwy]] in North [[Wales]]. These can be seen in these [http://www.irishships.com/lambay_island_shipping.html images of mussel dredging in the 1990s]. In 2006 the Drogheda Port Company undertook silt dredging from Tom Roe's Point deepwater berth to the [[Boyne Viaduct|viaduct at Drogheda]]. Mussel fishing has been suspended since. |
The mussel fishing involved a particular [[currach]]-style boat or punt and a mussel rake dredged by hand similar to that on the [[River Conwy]] in North [[Wales]]. These can be seen in these [http://www.irishships.com/lambay_island_shipping.html images of mussel dredging in the 1990s]. In 2006 the Drogheda Port Company undertook silt dredging from Tom Roe's Point deepwater berth to the [[Boyne Viaduct|viaduct at Drogheda]]. Mussel fishing has been suspended since. |
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Drogheda port management of the River Boyne has been a feature of the last 150 years, with major dredging work beginning in the 1830s, after the [[Alexander Nimmo]] report of 1826 based on a survey by [[John Benjamin Macneill]]. A recent EPA states that "From Drogheda town to the sea at Mornington the river has been trained by means of training walls constructed around the 1850s by the then Drogheda Harbour Commissioners. This captured the main river flow with estuarine polders being created north and south of the training walls. This important work had two effects in that it increased the tidal exit velocity and thereby produced a scouring effect and created a reserve of water from the estuarine polders to supplement the falling tide<ref>http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Foreshore/ApplicationsandDeterminations/DroghedaPortCompany/ApplicationDetails/FileDownLoad,30306,en.pdf</ref>. |
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⚫ | [[Bus Éireann]] route 190 provides several daily services between [[Laytown]] and [[Drogheda]] via [[Bettystown]] and Mornington.<ref>http://buseireann.ie/pdf/1261645889-190.pdf</ref> Matthews Coaches provide commuter routes to Dublin which serve Donacarney Cross and Laytown, Bettystown and Julianstown.<ref>http://commuter.matthews.ie/images/Bettystown-Laytown-Dublin_Rev004.pdf</ref> |
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==Mornington Beach== |
==Mornington Beach== |
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Mornington beach consists of dunes and a strand extending from the River Boyne to the Neptune Hotel. It is a popular site for walkers and day-trippers in good weather. In recent years and with the popularity of Bettystown the name of Bettystown Beach has become more current. The Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club's location in the Mornington dune-system and the development of the area has also influenced the name shift. Mornington beach is now seen to consist of the dunes around the Maiden's Tower and that area of soft sand nearing the Boyne |
Mornington beach consists of dunes and a strand extending from the River Boyne mouth to the Neptune Hotel. It is a popular site for walkers and day-trippers in good weather. In recent years and with the popularity of Bettystown the name of Bettystown Beach has become more current. The Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club's location in the Mornington dune-system and the development of the area has also influenced the name shift. Mornington beach is now seen to consist of the dunes around the Maiden's Tower and that area of soft sand nearing the Boyne entrance walls for which signs are erected warning cars of the danger. |
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In recent times bodies of murder-victims relating to criminality have been found here in 2007<ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/news/murder-inquiry-after-beach-shooting-1.1293656</ref> and 2013.<ref>http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-charged-with-murder-of-body-found-on-meath-beach-29629068.html</ref> |
In recent times bodies of murder-victims relating to criminality have been found here in 2007<ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/news/murder-inquiry-after-beach-shooting-1.1293656</ref> and 2013.<ref>http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-charged-with-murder-of-body-found-on-meath-beach-29629068.html</ref> |
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==Historic past== |
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⚫ | Mornington known variously as ''Villa Marinarii'', ''Marinerston by Colp'', ''Marinerstown'' or ''Mornanton'' was in medieval times a '[[manor]]' and though its [[tithe|tithes]] were granted by [[Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath|Hugh de Lacy]] in 1182 to support the [[Canons Regular|Augustinian]] Abbey at Colpe, (founded as a cell of [[Llanthony Priory]] in Monmouthshire), it was separate to the more extensive Manor of Colp, which took its name from ''Inbhear Colpha'' an older name for the area at the mouth of the Boyne. By the Civil Survey of 1654 however it was being considered as part of the [[Parish (administrative division)|Civil Parish]] of Colpe and it appears in [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]]'s "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" (1837) under [http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/C/Colpe-Duleek-Meath.php Colpe, or Colpe-cum-Mornington]. The Ozanam Home now sits on the site of 'Mornington House', Coney Hall, formerly the principal residence in the area and owned by the Brabazon family. A plaque dedicated to James Brabazon, Esq., who died in 1794, is found on the wall of the early church in the old graveyard of Mornington. The family's association goes back to their seventeenth-century ancestor, a Captain James Brabazon who fought at the [[Battle of Aughrim]]. |
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==Title of "Earl of Mornington"== |
==Title of "Earl of Mornington"== |
Revision as of 10:38, 28 August 2016
Mornington
Baile Uí Mhornáin | |
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Town | |
![]() Maiden Tower, Mornington, and Mouth of River Boyne | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Leinster |
County | County Meath |
Area | |
• Total | 2.19 km2 (0.85 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1 m (3 ft) |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Irish Grid Reference | O149759 |
Mornington (Irish: Baile Uí Mhornáin, meaning 'Town of the Mariner/Fisherman') is a coastal town on the banks of the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland approximately 5 km downriver from the Centre of Drogheda. Together with the neighbouring villages of Laytown and Bettystown it comprises the census town of Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington with a combined population of 10,889 at the 2011 Census, which is part of the wider area collectively known as East Meath.
The large townland of 1,223 acres (4.95 km2) is bound on the north by the River Boyne estuary and on the east by the Irish Sea. The townland extends along the seashore to Bettystown village and includes part of that village up to and including The Neptune Hotel. The point of land where the Boyne turns South-East before entering the sea is known locally as "The Crook".
Mornington can also refer to a larger area, a half-parish, within the Laytown-Mornington Roman Catholic Parish established in 1986, and formerly part of the Parish of St. Mary's in Drogheda.
Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger
Mornington also contains the Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger, two structures most likely to have been navigational aids for ships entering the River Boyne. The original name of the Maiden Tower was Mayden Tower. The area was then known as Maydenhayes. The title Lord of Maydenhayes is currently in possession of Edmund J. McCormick, Jr, of Far Hills, New Jersey in the United States. The tower was already in existence by 1582 when it was proposed to build at Ringsend a tower of such height and strength as shalbe of a perpetual continuance like the tower at Drogheda.[1][2][3]
Fisheries
Mornington was traditionally a fishing village based on salmon fishing and mussel dredging on the River Boyne. The fishery was commonly called the lord's fishery in the time of the Stuarts. The fishing by draft nets was done from about 14 particular stations and "Boyne salmon fishermen had a particular method of working which involved two men. One man stayed on shore holding a rope attached to the net, while the other rowed out into the river with the other end of the net. Once the whole net was spread out, the boatman rowed back to shore and the two men pulled the net to shore, trapping fish as it went"[4]
On 2006 amid concerns of dwindling spawning salmon numbers, the decision was taken to ban draft net fishing. Of the 50 fishermen with licences only 14 remained and "they came to an agreement with the Inland Fisheries Ireland to take part in a scientific experiment that tags fish caught in the nets, under the eye of fishing inspectors. They are then released, allowing them to head back upstream".[5]
The mussel fishing involved a particular currach-style boat or punt and a mussel rake dredged by hand similar to that on the River Conwy in North Wales. These can be seen in these images of mussel dredging in the 1990s. In 2006 the Drogheda Port Company undertook silt dredging from Tom Roe's Point deepwater berth to the viaduct at Drogheda. Mussel fishing has been suspended since.
Drogheda port management of the River Boyne has been a feature of the last 150 years, with major dredging work beginning in the 1830s, after the Alexander Nimmo report of 1826 based on a survey by John Benjamin Macneill. A recent EPA states that "From Drogheda town to the sea at Mornington the river has been trained by means of training walls constructed around the 1850s by the then Drogheda Harbour Commissioners. This captured the main river flow with estuarine polders being created north and south of the training walls. This important work had two effects in that it increased the tidal exit velocity and thereby produced a scouring effect and created a reserve of water from the estuarine polders to supplement the falling tide[6].
Public transport
Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services between Laytown and Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.[7] Matthews Coaches provide commuter routes to Dublin which serve Donacarney Cross and Laytown, Bettystown and Julianstown.[8] Mornington is served by rail by both Drogheda train station and Laytown train station.
Religion
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Church_at_Mornington%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_627653.jpg/220px-Church_at_Mornington%2C_Co._Meath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_627653.jpg)
There is one church in Mornington, it is Roman Catholic and known as the Star of the Sea (Irish: Réalt ná Mara) . It was dedicated in 1989 to replace an earlier Star of the Sea church in Mornington built in 1841, which is located down the road overlooking the point were Colpe stream enters the Boyne at the bridge at Mornington. It replaced in its turn a pre-Reformation church, whose ruins are located in the old graveyard adjoining. St. Patrick is said to have landed here, the mouth of the Boyne, anciently called Inbhear Colpa, on his way to Tara, though the church, and the former Church of Ireland church at Colpe, were traditionally dedicated to St. Columba. A former holy well dedicated to St. John was located near the new church in an area known as "The Glen" close to the Colpe stream. Its pattern was suppressed by a local priest in times past.
Sport
Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club[9] is situated in Mornington townland.
Boyne RFC was planning to build a state-of-the-art facility in Mornington but plans were suspended.[citation needed]
The famous jockey Mornington, or Morny, Cannon was born the same day that his father Tom Cannon won the Somersetshire Stakes, at Bath, on a colt named Mornington,[10] and named after that event.
Education
There are two schools in Donacarney and these are sometimes said to be in Mornington. They are Realt Na Mara BNS and Realt Na Mara GNS
A new secondary school (Colaiste na hInse) has been built in Laytown which services the east Meath area. The two existing schools are to be replaced with two newer and bigger schools, with 24 teachers each.[citation needed]
Mornington Beach
Mornington beach consists of dunes and a strand extending from the River Boyne mouth to the Neptune Hotel. It is a popular site for walkers and day-trippers in good weather. In recent years and with the popularity of Bettystown the name of Bettystown Beach has become more current. The Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club's location in the Mornington dune-system and the development of the area has also influenced the name shift. Mornington beach is now seen to consist of the dunes around the Maiden's Tower and that area of soft sand nearing the Boyne entrance walls for which signs are erected warning cars of the danger. In recent times bodies of murder-victims relating to criminality have been found here in 2007[11] and 2013.[12]
Historic past
Mornington known variously as Villa Marinarii, Marinerston by Colp, Marinerstown or Mornanton was in medieval times a 'manor' and though its tithes were granted by Hugh de Lacy in 1182 to support the Augustinian Abbey at Colpe, (founded as a cell of Llanthony Priory in Monmouthshire), it was separate to the more extensive Manor of Colp, which took its name from Inbhear Colpha an older name for the area at the mouth of the Boyne. By the Civil Survey of 1654 however it was being considered as part of the Civil Parish of Colpe and it appears in Samuel Lewis's "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" (1837) under Colpe, or Colpe-cum-Mornington. The Ozanam Home now sits on the site of 'Mornington House', Coney Hall, formerly the principal residence in the area and owned by the Brabazon family. A plaque dedicated to James Brabazon, Esq., who died in 1794, is found on the wall of the early church in the old graveyard of Mornington. The family's association goes back to their seventeenth-century ancestor, a Captain James Brabazon who fought at the Battle of Aughrim.
Title of "Earl of Mornington"
The title Earl of Mornington has been one of the greatest British aristocratic titles for centuries. Originally a British peerage, it is now a courtesy title. The current holder of the earldom is Arthur Darcy Wellesley (born 2010), the son of Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, and his wife Jemma, née Kidd, who is the sister of Jodie Kidd. The connection with Mornington of the Wellesley, Wesley, Weslie, or, Weisle family name goes back to at least the sixteenth-century. As Lewis says on the suppression of Colp Abbey a place called Weisle's Farm in Mornington was paying tithes to the Abbey. Gerald Weslie, late of Dangan, "Irish Papist", who died in 1603, is mentioned in an inquisition of 1624 as having been in possession of "the manor of Marinerstown or Mornanton counting two messages and 120A and of a capital fishery commonly called the lord's fishery".[13] Richard Colley, later Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington inherited Dangan and Mornington in 1728. His son was the 1st Earl of Mornington, the father of Field-Marshal The 1st Duke of Wellington. The many places in Australia and across the world were named in honour of the second Earl, a brother of the Duke of Wellington.
See also
References
- ^ de Courcy, J. 1996 The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin. 243
- ^ http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/MeathsTownandVillages/Mornington/
- ^ http://ie.geoview.info/maiden_tower_mornington_co_meath,49672081p
- ^ Leo Boyle, Salmon Fishing on the Boyne River, A Brief Synopsis of the Boyne River Salmon Fishery, www.patburnsphotography.net, accessed 16/4/2014 quoted at http://www.whytes.ie/i6Main.asp?Auction=20140526&Lot=60
- ^ Drogheda Independent 08/08/2012 Accessed at http://m.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/salmon-back-in-boyne-27168968.html
- ^ http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Foreshore/ApplicationsandDeterminations/DroghedaPortCompany/ApplicationDetails/FileDownLoad,30306,en.pdf
- ^ http://buseireann.ie/pdf/1261645889-190.pdf
- ^ http://commuter.matthews.ie/images/Bettystown-Laytown-Dublin_Rev004.pdf
- ^ http://www.landb.ie/
- ^ Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England), Thursday, 22 May 1873
- ^ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/murder-inquiry-after-beach-shooting-1.1293656
- ^ http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-charged-with-murder-of-body-found-on-meath-beach-29629068.html
- ^ D'Alton, John. The History of Drogheda with its environs Vol 2. p450. (Dublin, 1844)