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
Damhliag· Irish · main form · validated name
Duleek· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Janet Dowdall remembers William Bathe
Janet Dowdall erected the marketplace cross in 1601 to commemorate her husband William Bathe of Athcarne. Its inscription identifies him as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas and records his death in October 1599. A small heart enclosed by a ring forms part of the decoration, interpreted by the council’s trail as an emblem of marital love. The monument gives a named woman a lasting place in the public space of the town.[2][3]
Saints on the wayside cross
The carving includes saints, angels and family arms on several faces. Figures identified in the monument record include Peter, Patrick, Cianán, Mary Magdalene, James, Thomas and George with the dragon. The Bathe arms accompany the memorial inscription. Repairs in 1810 and possible later additions altered the upper portions. The cross combines devotional imagery with the remembrance of one household.[3]
Judge Trotter’s house and sculpture
Duleek House became the principal residence of Stephen Trotter, a judge and member of parliament. The council’s trail associates the eighteenth-century house with his career and records a statue by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers. The statue formerly stood in the Church of Ireland porch and was later removed for safekeeping to the Law Society at Blackhall Place in Dublin. Its journey connects a local patron’s memory with another institutional setting.[2]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Duleek — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Duleek, Meath — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Duleek, Meath — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Duleek, Meath — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Duleek, Meath
Published census settlement populations
4,219people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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