{{Short description|Barony in County Meath, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use Irish English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | name = Duleek Lower | native_name = ''Damhliag Íochtarach'' <small>(Irish)</small> | settlement_type = Barony | image_skyline = Balrath cross, east face - geograph.org.uk - 789344.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Balrath Cross | image_map =Baronies of Meath.jpg |pushpin_map = Ireland |coordinates={{coord|53.67| -6.41 |format=dms|dim:15000|display=it}} | map_alt = | map_caption = Barony map of County Meath, 1900; Duleek Lower is in the east, coloured green. | subdivision_type = Sovereign state | subdivision_name = Ireland | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Leinster | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Meath | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 =152.9 | area_total_sq_mi =59.0 | area_land_km2 = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = }}
'''Duleek Lower''' or '''Lower Duleek''' ({{irish place name|Damhliag Íochtarach}}) is a historical barony in eastern County Meath, Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.navanhistory.ie/slater-s-directory-1894/|title=Slater's Directory 1894}}</ref>
Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.<ref>{{cite book |author=General Register Office of Ireland |title=Census of Ireland 1901: General topographical index |chapter-url=http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)/1901/Ireland&active=yes&mno=453&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=3800&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank |series=Command papers |volume=Cd. 2071 |year=1904 |publisher=HMSO |pages=966–978 |chapter=Alphabetical index to the baronies of Ireland}}</ref>
==History==
Prior to the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Duleek Lower area was ruled by the Uí Dhubháin (O'Duane) of Knowth (whose name survived in the Downestown townland),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/38393|title=Baile Uí Dhubháin/Downestown|website=logainm.ie}}</ref> and the Ua Maoil Lughdhach (O'Molluwey) of Brú na Bóinne. The barony of Duleek existed before 1542 in the Lordship of Meath; it took its name from the town of Duleek <ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/baronie4.htm|title=The Baronies of Ireland - History|date=17 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717210451/http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/baronie3.htm |archive-date=17 July 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/PUB-DS-3-22|title=Virtual Treasury|website=Virtual Treasury}}</ref> Duleek was divided into Lower (northern) and Upper (southern) halves by 1807.<ref>* {{cite book |title=No. 205A: Accounts, presented to the House of Commons, of the Presentments passed by the Grand Juries of Ireland at the Spring and Summer Assizes, in the Year 1807 |date=May–July 1808 |location=London |series=House of Commons papers 1808 |access-date=22 March 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 }} </ref> ==Geography==
Duleek Lower is in the east of the county, to the south of the River Boyne, and runs up to Meath's short coastline on Drogheda Bay.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.townlands.ie/louth/duleek-lower/|title=Duleek Lower|website=www.townlands.ie}}</ref>
==List of settlements==
Settlements within the historical barony of Duleek Lower include: *Donore *Duleek *Yellow Furze
==References== {{reflist}} Category:Baronies of County Meath