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After summer assizes 1791, the lands herein described shall be deemed an entire barony, and called lower slane.
and rated as herein;
parishes hereto named to be esthol lower Slane.
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V. And whereas the barony of Slane in the county of Meath, is very extensive, and rated in the county books at twenty-one thousand one hundred and six acres, and it is expedient for the case and more equal disposal of the public cess, that it should be divided into two baronies, to be called and known by the name of the baronies of upper and lower Slane; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the summer assizes, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the several town lands in the parishes of Slane, Gornonstown, Stackalien, Douth, Moricknewtown, Grange-geath, and such part of the lordship of Mellefont, as lies south and west of the Mattock river, and which several lands are bounded on the south by the river Boyne, on the east by the Mattock river, on the north by the Mattock river and the parish of Killary, and on the west by the baronies of Navan and Moygallion, shall be separated from the rest of the barony of Slane, and shall be deemed one entire barony, and shall be called the barony of upper Slane, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Meath in all presentments for public money, as containing nine thousand one hundred and sixty-three acres, and no more; and that the parishes of Killary, Mitchelstown, Loghbrackan, Sidden, Innishmore, Dromeonrath, Ardagh, part of Ennisteen parish, and part of Nobber parish, being the remainder of the said barony, shall be deemed an entire barony, and shall be called the barony of lower Slane, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Meath in all presentments of public money, as containing eleven thousand nine hundred and forty three acres, and no more.
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