•  Cushinstown, County Meath

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Cushinstown like this:

CULLINSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of SKREEN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S.) from Duleek; containing 298 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the confines of the county of Dublin, near the great north road from Dublin to Belfast, by Ashbourne: it is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, entirely impropriate, and annexed to the union of Duleek. In the R. C. divisions also it forms part of the union or district of Duleek. There is a hedge school, aided by local subscriptions, in which are about 30 children.

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