# Rossnaree

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{{short description|Village in County Meath, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use Irish English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name                   = Rosnaree
|native_name            = {{lang|ga|Ros na Rí}}
|native_name_lang       = ga
|settlement_type        = Village
|image_skyline          = Church of the Nativity, Rossnaree, Co. Meath - geograph.org.uk - 455564.jpg
|image_caption          = Church of the Nativity Rossnaree, built c.1820<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME&regno=14402605 | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = Rossnaree Roman Catholic Church, County Meath | accessdate = 6 July 2019 }}</ref>
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|subdivision_type       = Country
|subdivision_name       = [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland)
|subdivision_type1      = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Ireland)
|subdivision_name1      = [Leinster](/source/Leinster)
|subdivision_type3      = [County](/source/Counties_of_Ireland)
|subdivision_name3      = [County Meath](/source/County_Meath)
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|area_footnotes         = <ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/meath/lower-duleek/knockcommon/painestown/rossnaree/ | publisher = Townlands Ireland | website = townlands.ie | title = Rossnaree Townland, Co. Meath | accessdate = 6 July 2019 }}</ref>
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'''Rossnaree''' or '''Rosnaree''' ({{Irish place name|Ros na Rí|wood of the kings}}; [Old Irish](/source/Old_Irish) ''Ros na Ríg'' or ''Ros na Ríogh'')<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/38699.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Ros na Rí / Rossnaree| accessdate = 3 July 2019 }}</ref> is a small village and [townland](/source/townland) in [County Meath](/source/County_Meath), [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland), 10&nbsp;km west of [Drogheda](/source/Drogheda). The village is on the south bank of the [River Boyne](/source/River_Boyne), and the [Brú na Bóinne](/source/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne) complex of [Neolithic](/source/Neolithic) monuments is nearby, on the north bank of the Boyne. Rossnaree commands a [ford](/source/ford_(crossing)) that was used by the [Williamite](/source/Williamite)s at the [Battle of the Boyne](/source/Battle_of_the_Boyne) in 1690.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/revisiting-the-battle-of-the-boyne-1.503120 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = Revisiting the Battle of the Boyne | date = 8 October 2005 | accessdate = 6 July 2019 }}</ref> The walls of the mill at Rossnaree once contained a [Sheela na Gig](/source/Sheela_na_Gig), although this has been removed for safekeeping and is in private possession.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.meathheritage.com/index.php/archives/item/me01204-rossnaree-sheela-na-gig | publisher = MeathHeritage | website = meathheritage.com | title = National Monuments - ME01204 - Rossnaree - Sheela-na-gig | accessdate = 6 July 2019 }}</ref>

==Legends==
The legendary [High King of Ireland](/source/High_King_of_Ireland) [Cormac mac Airt](/source/Cormac_mac_Airt) is reputedly buried at Rossnaree, having refused to be buried at a pagan site across the river after converting to [Christianity](/source/Christianity).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10097a.htm |title=Meath |publisher=The Catholic Encyclopedia |accessdate=2009-05-02 |date=1911 }}</ref> In the [Ulster Cycle](/source/Ulster_Cycle) tale ''Cath Ruis na Ríg'' ("the Battle of Rosnaree"), it is the site of a battle between [Conchobar mac Nessa](/source/Conchobar_mac_Nessa), king of the [Ulaid](/source/Ulaid), and his son-in-law [Cairpre Nia Fer](/source/Cairpre_Nia_Fer), king of [Tara](/source/Hill_of_Tara), during which the Ulaid hero [Cú Chulainn](/source/C%C3%BA_Chulainn) kills Cairpre with a spear thrown from a distance, and then decapitates him before his body hits the ground.<ref>E. Hogan (ed & trans), ''[Cath Ruis na Ríg for Boinn](/source/s%3AThe_Battle_of_Ross_na_R%C3%ADg)'', Todd Lecture Series, 1892</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.academia.edu/23094021 | website = academia.edu | title = Cath Ruis na Ríg for Bóinn: history and literature in twelfth-century Ireland | author = Patrick Wadden }}</ref>

==Namesakes==
Rossnaree House, a mid-19th century manor house, takes its name from the area in which it is sited.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/the-manor-boyne-1.1153453 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = The Manor Boyne | date = 14 August 2004 | accessdate = 7 July 2019 }}</ref> It is suggested by [Elizabeth Hickey](/source/Elizabeth_Hickey) to be the original location of the House of Cletty (''Tech Cleitech''),<ref>{{cite book | first = Elizabeth | last = Hickey | title = The House of Cleitech | work = Ríocht na Midhe | volume = 3, pt3 | date = 1965 | pages = 181–185}}</ref> where [Cormac mac Airt](/source/Cormac_mac_Airt) died after choking on a salmon bone and [Muirchertach Macc Ercae](/source/Muirchertach_mac_Muiredaig_(Mac_Ercae)) reputedly died a [threefold death](/source/threefold_death).  

''Ros na Righ'' was also the name of a small [steam launch](/source/steam_launch) which brought day-trippers along the [Boyne Navigation](/source/Boyne_Navigation) in the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/opinion/we-protest-most-vigorously-in-a-passive-silent-kind-of-way-29338682.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | website = independent.ie | title = We protest most vigorously... in a passive, silent kind of way | date = 12 June 2013 | accessdate = 7 July 2019 }}</ref>

The Rosnaree Hotel outside [Drogheda](/source/Drogheda) was the location of an [IPLO-INLA shooting incident](/source/Rosnaree_Hotel_shooting) in 1987. It is now the Moorehall Lodge nursing home.

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Category:Towns and villages in County Meath

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