Augherskea

Augherskea (from Irish Eachaire Sceach, meaning 'Field of the Brambles') is a townland in the civil parish of Knockmark, barony of Lower Deece, County Meath, Ireland.

Augherskea is bounded on the north by the townlands of Baronstown and Mooretown, on the east by Bedfanstown, Cultromer, Kilcooly, Knockmark and Merrywell, on the south by Culmullin and on the west by Tullaghmedan & Warrenstown.

The townland would have been owned by the abbey until 25 July 1539 when King Henry VIII of England appropriated the lands during his Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[4] The earliest surviving mention of the townland name is in 'The Rental Book of Gerald Fitzgerald, Ninth Earl of Kildare.

[8] The 1836 Ordnance Survey map also depicts part of the townland as Glebe land, again indicating it belonged to the church.