Saint Patrick's Day Parades & Events in Navan
PARADES
Navan Saint Patricks Day Parade 2011
Thursday 17 March 2011
The traditional St Patricks Day Parade will take place as usual and promises to be one of the highlights of this year's Navan Shamrock Festival.
We would ask that all local Navan business, community groups, schools and clubs show their support for this year's parade by taking part!
Over the centuries, Navan founded in the 12th centuryhas been a forerunner in almost everything to hit Ireland.
In 1170, Hugh DeLacy was granted the ancient Kingdom of Meath .The most common Irish families at the time were McLoughlin, McGogarty, O'Loughnane, Hayes, O'Reilly, O'Kelly and O'Hennessy.
It was common with descendants of the early Anglo-Norman settlers to take Irish surnames at the time and a branch of the Nangle family settled in the West of Ireland and took the name MacCostello.
Navan was considered an important military position to be held by the newcomers. In 1539 an invasion of Meath took place by the Northern Princes O'Neil and O'Donnell and they devastated, burned and plundered Navan and Ardee.
On returning north, the English forces pursued them and a battle was fought at Ballyhoe on the border of Meath and Monaghan and due to a lack of discipline, the Irish army was defeated.
After this, the English fortified Navan with walls and the Monastery was forced to surrender all its possesions to Henry VIII. It was plundered and turned into a cavalry barracks.
Other Anglo-Norman families who lived beside Navan were the Dowdalls of Athlumney and the Darcy's of Dunmoe. These families were on the side of the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1689.
In 19th century Navan, there were five corn mills, two paper mills, two distilleries (capable of producing 30,000 gallons of whiskey), one tannery, a flax mill employing 260 people, flour mills and a factory that manufactured sacks.
In the 18th and 19th century, two thirds of the land was devoted to tillage farming which was mainly potato growing. With the potato crop failing in the 1840's, the famine wiped out entire villages and what was left emigrated.
A workhouse was erected in Navan in 1842 and was renowned as the best managed workhouse in Ireland. It was managed by Mr. Cowley.
Cuirimid fáilte roimh chach go dtí an Uaimh ar an bhféile seo. Lá le Pádraig, dhá mhíle is a cúige.
Creidimid gurb í an Uaimh baile dúchais an tSeamróg toisc í a bheith suite in aice Teamhair. Mar sin comóraimid é seo.
Tá súil againn go mbainnfidh sibh sult agus taithneamh as an bhféile agus suimid sláinte chugaibh sa bhlian atá romhainn
Go raibh maith agaibh
Clann Naomh Pádraig.
