placenamesSlane
Baile Shláine
Lewis recorded a productive river industry alongside an earlier mining venture that had failed.
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 Shláine · Irish · main form
- Slane · English · main form
Place & story
Seven pairs of millstones
The flour and corn mills beside Slane belonged to Blayney Townley Balfour when Samuel Lewis described them in 1837. They worked seven pairs of stones and had a plentiful water supply. Lewis put their capacity at one thousand barrels of wheat a week. That figure described what the mills could grind, rather than a measured weekly output. [2]
An earlier venture abandoned
Lewis separately reported coal workings in the parish about thirty years before his account. They had proved unproductive and were abandoned. He supplied no precise opening or closing date. The contrast records different outcomes for local industrial activity: established milling beside the Boyne and an unsuccessful attempt to extract coal. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.72496, -6.56062
- Mapped area
- 23.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1923 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Slane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Slane — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), reproduced by Navan & District Historical Society · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-11-10. How this page was prepared.