page_title: Slane
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Slane / History
caption_attribution_description: English: House. There are four identical houses at the crossroads in Slane formed by the intersection of the N2 and N51.
context_page_description: Slane is a village in County Meath, in Ireland. The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 and the N51. As of the 2016 census, Slane's population was 1,369. The village and surrounding area contains many historic sites dating back over 5,000 years. The village centre, as it is laid-out today, dates mainly from the 18th century.
context_section_description: While the area and its surroundings have been inhabited since at least the Neolithic era and then with literature references upon the introduction of Christianity and the hill of Slane settlement, as discussed in the stolen 1092 Annals of Inisfallen. The earliest surviving structures, in what is considered the boundaries of the modern day village, were built by the invading Norman family of the Flanders (now Fleming), during the Norman invasion of Ireland. The most relatively undisturbed structure, built under the feudal lordship of this family is a Motte and Bailey, which is in close proximity to the hill of Slane settlement.
  Following the Williamite confiscations, which saw the Flemings dispossessed, the present form of the Castle and the village centre were re-cast and in the latter case, laid out as a model British village by the Ulster plantation family of the Conynghams, in what is considered a typical example of 18th-century town planning.
  As part of this remodelling, today in the centre of the village stand four nearly identical Georgian houses. The four houses stand at the intersection of the two main streets in the village.  While the four faces of the houses and the four open streets form an octagon. The feature is known as The Square due to what is seen as the vertex position, that each house occupies. The South-Western-most house that forms the square, served as the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks and gaol, up until the founding of the Irish State. The two main streets in the village feature 18th century grey limestone buildings with slate roofs, oriel windows and archways.
  The village centre also incorporates "Gallows hill", the foot of which is essentially the location of the present day "Slane Credit Union" and a hill so named for the United Irishmen who were publicly executed there on a gallows in an attempt to deter further agitations for independence, following the failed 1798 uprising.
  In 2007 Meath County Council proposed that both Slane village and the mill be recognised as Architectural Conservation Areas and protected according.
caption: One of the four private Georgian houses at the centre of the village.
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