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Mornington, County Meath
Mornington () is a coastal town on the banks of the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland approximately 5 km from the Centre of Drogheda Together with the neighbouring villages of Laytown and Bettystown it comprises the census town of Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington with a combined population of 10,889 at the 2011 Census, which is part of the wider area collectively known as East Meath.
The large townland of is bounded on the north by the River Boyne and on the east by the Irish Sea. Mornington can also refer to a larger area, a half-parish, within the Laytown-Mornington RC Parish established in 1986.
==Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger==
Mornington also contains the Maiden Tower and the Lady's Finger, two structures most likely to have been navigational aids for ships entering the River Boyne. The original name of the Maiden Tower was Mayden Tower. The area then known as Maydenhayes. The title Lord of Maydenhayes is currently in possession of Edmund J. McCormick, Jr, of Far Hills, New Jersey in the United States. The tower was already in existence by 1582 when it was proposed to build at Ringsend a tower of ''such height and strength as shalbe of a perpetual continuance like the tower at Drogheda''.〔de Courcy, J. 1996 ''The Liffey in Dublin''. Dublin. 243〕〔http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/MeathsTownandVillages/Mornington/〕〔http://ie.geoview.info/maiden_tower_mornington_co_meath,49672081p〕
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