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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Crickstown contained the following places:"CRICKSTOWN, (or Creekstown), a parish in the barony of Ratoath, in the county of Meath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 4 miles N.E. of Dunshauglin. Ratoath is its post town. The parish is traversed by the road from Dublin to Slane. The surface consists of tolerably good soil. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Meath, value with Ratoath, £595, in the patronage of the crown and T. L. Norman, Esq. Creekstown, in the Roman Catholic arrangement, gives name to the union, including the parishes of Kilmoon, Donaghmore, Kilbrew, and Grenogue, and has a chapel and school here, besides two other chapels within the union. There are some vestiges of the church and of the family mansion of the Barnewalls, the former proprietors of the parish.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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