![]() A large part of the town was burned as a reprisal by the British Crown forces on 26 September 1920. However, in the main the town continued to mainly be a service centre for its immediate area.ĭuring the Irish War of Independence, local companies of the Irish Republican Army took Trim RIC Barracks, a large structure located on the current site of the Castle Arch Hotel, secured the arms from the barracks and then burnt down the Barracks. Trim was also chosen as location for the Timoney Engineering company to make Fire Tenders. Some small-scale local industries were developed including envelope, and leather product manufacturing. Trim developed as a market town for the productive agricultural hinterland. This resulted in a change in the business life of Trim. Following the Great Irish Famine of 1846–1849, the practices of agriculture in the hinterland altered, with a change in emphasis from tillage to stock raising. ![]() The 19th century saw the construction of Trim Courthouse, St Loman's Catholic church, St Patrick's Anglican church, the Wellington column, the current Bank of Ireland building, and Castle Street by Lord Dunsany, a major landowner. Trim was represented in the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797 by Arthur Wellesley, who went on to become the 1st Duke of Wellington. There were many local disturbances in neighbouring villages in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, most infamously the battle on the Hill of Tara, following the dispersal of the Wexford rebellion. In 1649 after the sacking of Drogheda, the garrison of Trim fled to join other Irish forces and the town was occupied by the army of Oliver Cromwell. It was also designated by Elizabeth I of England as the planned location for a Protestant University, but this plan was revised by Sir Francis Drake, who advocated the case for locating the University in Dublin, and so Trinity College, Dublin was founded. Once a candidate to be the country's capital, the town has also occupied a role as one of the outposts of the Pale, and sessions of the Irish Parliament were sometimes held here, as in 1542. ![]() Richard II of England stayed there before he was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke on his return from campaign. Trim and the surrounding lands were granted to Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, a Norman baron. It was built in the late 12th century following the Norman invasion of Ireland. Trim Castle (or King John's Castle) is Ireland's largest Norman castle. The town's main feature is Ireland's largest Norman castle, Trim Castle other features include two ruined church complexes, the Boyne River for fishing and the Butterstream Gardens, visited by Charles, Prince of Wales in the mid-nineties (no longer open to the public). Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is reputed to have been born in Dangan Castle between Trim and Summerhill, and a large column to him was erected in the town in 1817. In the 15th century the Irish parliament met in Trim. On the River Boyne banks, Trim became one of the most important Hiberno-Norman settlements in the Middle Ages. The abbey's bell tower, the "Yellow Steeple", is the primary remnant of St Mary's. During the Reformation, the statue was burned and Henry VIII dissolved the abbey. In the Middle Ages the abbey church was the sanctuary for "Our Lady of Trim", a wooden statue reported to work miracles, which statue made Trim a major pilgrimage site from at least 1397. Īttackers burned the church several times in the twelfth century, during which it was refounded as an St Mary's Abbey under Augustinian rule. When domestic politics endangered the position of Lommán's foundation, the church of Armagh assimilated Lommán into the dossier of St Patrick, making him a disciple of that saint. It is traditionally thought to have been founded by St Patrick and left in the care of its patron saint Lommán, also locally known as Loman, who flourished sometime between the 5th and early 6th century. At an early date, a monastery was founded at Trim, which lay within the tribal kingdom of the Cenél Lóegairi.
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