placenamesLobinstown
Baile Lóibín
A nineteenth-century parish account, a roadside milestone and a recently recorded cropmark reveal different periods of Lobinstown’s history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Lóibín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lobinstown · English · main form
Place & story
The parish centre
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Lobinstown as the name of a Catholic district covering Killeary, Syddan, Innismoth and Mitchellstown. He recorded chapels at Lobinstown and Heronstown. His account shows the village name serving a wider religious district, whose population and institutions should be distinguished from those of the village itself. [2]
Distances carved in stone
At Begsreeve, northeast of the village, a triangular granite milestone dates from about 1780. Its two inscribed faces point towards Drumconrath, Carrickmacross and Kingscourt in one direction, and Dublin, Slane and Collon in the other. The architectural inventory connects this small roadside landmark with the coaching era and coach-carried post. [3]
A ringfort seen in cropmarks
In Lobinstown townland, an archaeological record added in 2019 identifies a circular cropmark on a hilltop. About thirty metres across, it is defined by a partly traceable ditch and appears on aerial imagery from 1995 and 2018. The record credits Anthony Murphy with first reporting it; this is a modern identification of an older feature, rather than an excavated construction date. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Civil parish
- Killary
- Coordinates
- 53.78892, -6.64944 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414671 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lobinstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeary: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis, 1837
- Begsreeve milestone, register 14401203 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, County Meath survey, 2002
- Sites and Monuments Record ME012-051: Lobinstown ringfort · Michael Moore; Archaeological Survey of Ireland, 2019
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.