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net, over a range of goods and services, not limited to alcohol, resulting in the trademark-holders controlling an array of other categories. In the EU jurisdiction, the attempt had been granted, without the prerequisite of a simple web-search being conducted on the name, raising issues of corruption and reassessment being required, as an earlier EU-trademark-ruling exists, that explicitly prohibits businesses from trademarking the name of historical places.
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and truck were seen spiriting away from the wreck of the truck in the dead of night. Several prosecutions followed, but the actual quantity of whiskey taken away is still known only to the management of
Bushmills and perhaps to the Insurance Company that followed up the claim. The following day five Irish Divers, Brian Cusack, Sean Sheridan, Joe Murray, Fergus McKenna and Sean Donohoe arrived and while the local people of Slane were still
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The N2 crosses the River Boyne south of the village. The road descends a steep hill from the village and makes an almost ninety-degree turn onto the 14th-century bridge. This bend was the scene of at least 22 fatalities in the late 20th century. As you climb the hill towards Slane village the wall on
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record that in A.D. 948 "The belfry of Slaine was burned by the foreigners , with its full of relics and distinguished persons, together with
Caeineachair, Lector of Slaine, and the crozier of the patron saint, and a bell which was the best of bells." Nothing remains of the tower today, although the
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the placename of "Slane" was filed in 2015. This trademarking became known after a business in the village, which had desired to use "Slane" in its title, discovered it was blocked from doing so. The controversy, around the trademarking includes that this application was designed to cast a very wide
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to Dublin when its brakes failed coming down the hill and it rolled over the bridge wall into the river some 3 meters or so below, the driver survived and was brought to
Hospital but the entire loot of liquor was strewn across the river bottom. Most of the town of Slane were quick on the scene, vans
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of "Slane Castle
Distillery", completed in 2017, it is owned and operated by Henry and Alex Conyngham. The whiskey that is intended to be produced in the distillery, carries the label, "SLANE Irish Whiskey", with the placename of "Slane", since 2018, now a registered trademark, controversially held
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The ruins of Castle Dexter which was built circa the 12th century, lay approximately 2 kilometres (1.3 miles) west of Slane Castle and it is likewise sited near the banks of the River Boyne. 18th-century drawings and watercolours of how this castle appeared are held in the
1734:(1880:137–145) p. 142 "if such a shrine were there, on the top of the lofty hill of Slane, it might have led to the building of the abbey: a circumstance which needs explanation, as abbeys were usually built in valleys, where land is fertile and water near at hand."
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In the still ongoing US case, the attempt to trademark "Slane" was refused in 2015 on the grounds that, upon doing a web-search, the word is both the name of a place and there are other local businesses with a long-standing use of "Slane" as part of their name.
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teams for the urban and rural areas of Slane. Teams play their home games in Toddy
Harding Park, located 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of the village. Slane Wanderers is the village's local football club, whose home games are played in Wheatfield Park.
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carving, that was also initially part of St. Erc's
Hermitage is now housed in an Iron frame beside the altar within Saint Patrick's Church on Chapel street. A catholic church was built c.1805. Not to be confused with the similarly named Saint Patrick's
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road). As of the 2022 census, Slane's population was 1,445. The village and surrounding area contains many historic sites dating back over 5,000 years. The village centre, as it is laid-out today, dates mainly from the 18th century. The village is in a
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at Slane. Slane Mill stands on the north bank of the River Boyne beside the N2 bridge. The mill is a five-storey cut-stone building. When the mill was completed in 1766, it was the largest flour mill in
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site, due to the area's land constraints. The main mill building "displays a level of carved detail that is unusual for an industrial building and more typically found in country houses of the period".
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which made the River Boyne navigable to small boats from Slane to the port in
Drogheda. A canal which is part of the navigation runs parallel to the river on the south bank near Slane.
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520:, in the entirety of Ireland; was one between Louth and Meath, in the fields of Slane, in 1712, about which the poet Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta wrote a poem of 88 verses beginning
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would divert a lot of the heavy traffic from the village but there is evidence that many heavy goods vehicles still use the N2 (and thus Slane bridge) to avoid paying the
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and cheaper labour in the far East have all conspired to ensure the "new mill" likewise has all but left the textile industry that was once the primary employer in Slane.
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that feeds into the Boyne and the stone quarry face from where the materials for construction were taken. Local folklore has it that during the 19th-century move of the
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measures over the years in an attempt to make the bend onto the bridge safer. These include separate traffic signals for heavy goods vehicles and cars, as well as a
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church and college can be seen on the top of the hill. It is known that Slane Friary was restored in 1512. The ruins include a 19-metre (62 ft) high early
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for bottles they collected 408 bottles in total, the local butcher in Slane at the time was apparently still drinking
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the right-hand side of the road has a number of small white crosses, each representing a death on this stretch of road. Most of the crashes have involved
2222:"Bus Éireann Timetable Route 190, Drogheda - Navan - Trim - Mullingar - Athlone - Bus Éireann - View Ireland Bus and Coach Timetables & Buy Tickets"
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dot the hills of Slane, with the most visible being behind the only service station remaining in the village and to the rear of
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houses. The four houses stand at the intersection of the two main streets in the village. While the four faces of the houses and the four
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Approximately 150 meters west of the college and friary church, hidden by trees, lay the steeply inclined remains of a twelfth-century
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proposed that both Slane village and the mill be recognised as Architectural Conservation Areas and protected accordingly.
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throughout the village. Since their installation, fatal accidents have ceased. It was hoped that the opening of the
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could bathe in it and be healed, allegedly, healing all wounds but decapitation. However upon the arrival of
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2272:"McConnons Buses - Daily return bus service from Monaghan to Dublin. M1 and N2 routes. WiFi on Board"
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which are in County Meath. The population of Slane Local Electoral Area was 32,126 in 2006.
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Ryle, John. "Fennor Castle and its Historical Context".
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in 2012, due to heritage concerns regarding the nearby
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by the owner of "Slane Castle Irish Whiskey Limited".
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The ruins on the hill of Slane as it appeared in 1830.
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1363:(1844–1890), poet, publisher, and member of the
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2011:. Slane Historical and Archaeological Society.
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1460:Trench, C.E.F. (1995).
1434:"Baile Shláine / Slane"
1209:and every two hours to
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1329:The Diocese of Meath
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1022:Meath County Council
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