Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YELLOW-FURZE

YELLOW-FURZE, a village, in the parish of PAINSTOWN, barony of LOWER DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S.) from Slane, on the road from Dublin by Stackallen bridge to Nobber; containing 28 houses and 146 inhabitants. Here is a chapel belonging to the R. C. union or district of Batterstown, a handsome modern building in the Gothic style.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Painestown IrlPar       Duleek Lower IrlBarony       Meath IrlC
Place: Yellow Furze

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