{"id":1404,"date":"2024-01-01T20:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2024-01-01T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T20:07:50","slug":"haggard-street-and-navangate-street-ref-226565-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/haggard-street-and-navangate-street-ref-226565-1\/","title":{"rendered":"HAGGARD STREET AND NAVANGATE STREET REF-226565-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
TRIM COUNTY MEATH CHRISTMAS 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Navangate Street leading from the Newtown Monuments was the Navan Gate, the eastern gate in the town walls. Along the road on the southside a wall plaque commemorates this gate. Navan Gate was sometimes called Rogues Castle. A well known local rhyme went: \u201cKells for brogues, Navan for rogues and Trim for hanging the people” \u2026 The middle ages came to an end in three events in County Meath. In 1542 the Liberty was divided into two, Westmeath and Meath, setting up the county we know today, with county courts and county sheriff and its capital at Trim. Navan is now the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was asked if Haggard was a Viking Name after I had published a photograph of the Haggard Inn. In Meath and elsewhere \u2018The Haggard\u2019 frequently appears as a field name. This is almost always an area adjacent to the farm yard or what once was a farm yard. Traditionally this was an enclosed area on a farm for stacking hay, grain or other fodder. Collins English Dictionary describes Haggard as follows \u2013 \u201cHaggard \u2013 (in Ireland and the Isle of Man) \u2013 an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored. Related to old Norse Heygarthr, from hey hay + garthr yard.\u201d It is most likely that this word has a Scandanavian or Norse origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cast-iron post box on Haggard Street is an important feature in the social and urban fabric of the town. It is simple design, the lettering and crown are well executed. Though many cast-iron post boxes are being replaced by modern boxes, this one remains in use however, as the weather was so bad on Christmas Day, I did not get the opportunity to photograph it but I did photograph the equally interesting Post Box on the side wall of the Steps Pub near the Wellington Monument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I actually visited the area on the next day but forgot to photograph the letterbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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