BALLYBOGGAN, or DE-LAUDE-DEI, a parish,
in the barony of UPPER-MOYFENRAGH, county of MEATH,
and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles (S. W.) from Clonard,
on the river Boyne, and on the road from Kinnegad
to Edenderry; containing 1477 inhabitants. A
priory for Augustine Canons was founded here in the
12th century by Jordan Comin, and dedicated to the
Holy Trinity 5 it was consumed by fire in the beginning
of 1446, and in the following year its prior died of
the plague. In the 33rd of Hen. VIII. it was granted
with various other possessions, to Sir William Bermingham,
afterwards created Lord Carbrey, in capite, at an
annual rent of £4. 3. 4.; and the reversion was, in the
41st of Elizabeth, granted to Edward Fitzgerald and
his heirs: there are some remains of the buildings on
the north-west bank of the river Boyne. There is a
small quantity of bog in the parish. New Park is the
property of the Rev. J. Digby. A fair for cattle is held
on the 25th of September. It is a perpetual curacy, in
the diocese of Meath, episcopally united to that of
Castlejordan; the rectory is impropriate in the Gilford
family. The tithes amount to £220, the whole payable
to the impropriator, who allows the perpetual curate
£30 per annum. In the R. C. divisions the parish also
forms part of the union or district of Castlejordan. There
are two pay schools, in which are 80 boys and 11 girls;
and a dispensary.