Mornington
Baile Uí Mhornáin | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Maiden Tower, Mornington, and Mouth of River Boyne | |
  Mornington Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°43′17″N 6°17′2″W / 53.72139°N 6.28389°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Population | |
| • Total | 15,642 |
| Urban area of Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney | |
| Irish Grid Reference | O149759 |
Mornington (Irish: Baile Uí Mhornáin, meaning 'town of the mariner')[2] is a coastal village on the estuary of the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland approximately 5 km downriver from the centre of Drogheda. Together with the neighbouring villages of Laytown, Bettystown and Donacarney, it comprises the urban area of Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney with a combined population of 15,642 at the 2022 census.[1]
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 townland, part of the civil parish of Colpe,[3] touches on other townlands: Betaghstown to the south, Colp East and Colp West to the west and Donacarney Great and Donacarney Little to the south and west. Stameen lies to the west. Baltray, Beaulieu and Banktown lie across the Boyne.
Mornington can also refer to a larger area, a half-parish, within the Laytown-Mornington Roman Catholic parish established in 1986,[4] and formerly part of the parish of St. Mary's in Drogheda. Mornington was also a former post office sub-district and used by a wider area for address purposes up to the 1980s.
- ^ a b "Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney". CSO Ireland. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Baile Uí Mhornáin/Mornington". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ The civil parish is known as Colpe and the individual townlands at the parish core are known as Colp, East and West. The names are interchangeable in earlier records and ultimately derive from the variant Irish names Inbher Colpa or Inber Colptha. Hostium Colpdi, the port of Colpa, was located on the Boyne estuary. See below.
- ^ "Sacred Heart Laytown".