Meath takes its name from An Mhí, ‘the middle’, once its own fifth province and the ceremonial centre of the whole island — home to the Hill of Tara, seat of Ireland’s High Kings for a thousand years.
Contae na Mí · The Royal County · Leinster
Meath takes its name from An Mhí, ‘the middle’, once its own fifth province and the ceremonial centre of the whole island — home to the Hill of Tara, seat of Ireland’s High Kings for a thousand years.
This is the Boyne Valley, where the passage tomb of Newgrange has stood for over five thousand years, older than the pyramids of Egypt — and where the Battle of the Boyne was fought in 1690, reshaping Ireland’s fate for centuries after.
