Meath Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Meath, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Meath, known as the Royal County for its association with the ancient High Kings of Ireland at the Hill of Tara, is also one of Ireland’s most fertile farming counties, which shaped generations of tenant farming families before later descendants emigrated. Its parish structure is notably dense, Meath has well over a hundred civil parishes, several of which can border a single church congregation, so the parish name on a family’s records is very often not the actual church they attended.
This complexity is something we know intimately, having worked through Meath’s parishes and townlands extensively over the years. A family’s civil parish might be recorded as one name while the church they actually used for weekly worship, baptisms and burials sits several miles away in a different parish altogether, and there can be multiple graveyards, from different centuries, serving the same small area. Untangling this accurately, rather than guessing from the civil parish alone, is essential to finding the right family history.
A Meath tour naturally takes in extraordinary sites like Newgrange and the Hill of Tara, alongside your own family’s specific parish, graveyard and townland, combining Ireland’s ancient history with your own family’s more recent, personal story.
- Meath has 17 baronies
- Meath has 145 Civil Parishes
- Meath has 92 Electoral Divisions
- Meath has 1595 Townlands
- Meath has 16 sub townlands
County Meath It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Mid-East Region. It is named after the historic Kingdom of Meath (from Midhe meaning “middle”). Also known as the Royal County with its feature “ The Hill of Tara “ being the seat of the High Kings of Ireland stretching back 3000 year (see our Historical County Meath Tour). The population of the county is 194,942 according to the 2016 census. The county is drained by the River Boyne which rises in County Kildare and is 60 miles long.
Meath is the 14th largest of Ireland’s 32 counties the largest town is Navan, where the county hall and government are located, although the medieval town of Trim, the former county town, has historical significance and remains a sitting place of the circuit court since 1175ad.
The Irish Celtic Tribes By Ptolemy 1st Century 500BC-500AD
- County Meath – The Eblanioi and Kaukoi
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – Nugent
- Norman – Delacey, Cheevers, Dillon, Cusack,
- Scottish – None
- Viking – None
County Meath – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Newgrange 5,000 year old World Unesco site
- Knowth Neolitic Cairns
- Trim Castle (Trim)
- Loughcrew Megalithic Cairns (Oldcastle) 5000 years old
- Hill of Tara and the Mound of the Hostages 5000 years old
- Oldbridge Estate/Battle of the Boyne Visitors Centre
- Hill of Slane St Patrick 432 ad
- Slane Castle and town
- Kells Monastic Site (Book of Kells written here)
- St Columbas House Kells 1000 years old
- Spire of Lloyd (Kells) & Famine Graveyard
- Francis Ledwege Poet Slane
- Donaghmore Round Tower (Navan)
- Dunshaughlin Famine House exterior view only.
- Irelands Ancient East
- Irish Military War Museum
- Tayto Park (Ashbourne)
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Meath have so many civil parishes?
Meath’s fertile land supported a dense agricultural population historically, resulting in a large number of civil parishes, several of which can border or overlap a single actual church congregation.
Can a Meath tour include Newgrange and the Hill of Tara?
Yes, these sites are often a natural addition to a Meath-based genealogy tour, alongside the specific locations connected to your family.
My Meath ancestors' civil parish doesn't match the church I've found online, is that normal?
Yes, this is very common in Meath specifically, and it’s exactly the kind of discrepancy we work to resolve before finalising your tour.
