Notable Persons
- Alexander de Balscot, Bishop of Meath died here 1400.
- Edmund Oldhall, Bishop of Meath died here 1459.
- George Montgomery, Bishop of Meath, buried here 1621.
- Richard Pococke, English prelate and anthropologist, and briefly Bishop of Meath - buried here 1765.
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