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Irish county in Leinster
Answer for the clue "Irish county in Leinster ", 5 letters:
meath
Alternative clues for the word meath
Word definitions for meath in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Meath may refer to: County Meath , Republic of Ireland Kingdom of Meath , medieval precursor of the county Meath GAA , including the intercounty football and hurling teams Diocese of Meath , in the Roman Catholic Church, and formerly in the Church of Ireland ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meath \Meath\, Meathe \Meathe\, n. [See Mead .] A sweet liquor; mead. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
county in Ireland, from Irish An Mhi , literally "the middle."
Usage examples of meath.
Connacht, smaller even than Mide or Meath, which had been created of parts from the other kingdoms, as an expansion of territory around Tara of the Kings.
They were already dressed in the finery each had ordered made for the other, commissioned through Meath himself in secrecy.
That southeastern kingdom was shrouded by a long history of rivalry with both Connacht and Meath where lay Tara.
And when he learned the name or names, found the men, whether they abode in Leinster or Meath, Munster or little Osraige, Connacth or Ailech, Airgialla or Ulahd or DalRiadia to the far northeast.
Munster and Meath bordered it, and, along the entire eastern coast, the Sea of Eirrin.
Often the struggle was confined not just to Meath and Leinster, for others entered in because of empathy and alliances, even greed or unmentioned political hopes.
Partha leave Ulster and travel even across Meath, all the way down to Leinster?
And Meath would not chew so great a slice of Leinster without having to bite it off.
I and yourself are about to become the most popular men in all Meath this night!
You, my glaze-eyed friend of Meath, will be after telling your fellows precisely what took place here.
Where the border became that dividing Meath and Leinster two garrisons stood like stone sentinels only two hundred yards apart.
Even Leinsterish cattle-thieves are welcome here in my Meath during these days!
Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too.
Their territory ran from the east bank of the Shannon north to Meath and south as far as Cashel.
Ending the supremacy of Tara would be a blow to Meath prestige, but they would rather see it fall into final decay than revert into the hands of Munstermen.