Summerhill (Irish: Cnoc an Línsigh)[2] is a heritage village in County Meath, Ireland.

The ancient seat of the Norman-Irish Lynch family had been granted to Bishop Henry Jones for his services provided as Scoutmaster General to Cromwell's Army.

Henry Jones, Church of Ireland Lord Bishop of Meath in 1661, sold Summerhill and many other townlands to Sir Hercules Langford.

[citation needed] In November 2010, a riding whip was sold at a country house auction in Slane Castle.

The whip had been owned by Elisabeth of Austria and given to Robert Fowler of nearby Rahinston House who was the Master of the Meath Hounds at the time of her stay in Summerhill.

The whip had been found, not long before the auction, in a mahogany presentation case with a silver crest plate bearing the imperial arms of Habsburg.

[9] Between Trim and the area of Summerhill stand the ruins of Dangan Castle, which was the childhood home of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

[11][12] The O' Connor family left the home in 1817, shortly after which the damaged castle and grounds became a ruin.

In 1856, Fr Colgan built a school in the chapel yard as Mr. Pratt Winter, the landlord, would not provide any land for it.

The school got an extension in 2007 of 3 new rooms, a sports hall and the renovation of the older building, with most of the bill paid by parishioners with fundraising.

[16] The current club, Summerhill GFC, was formed in 1931 and won the Meath Junior Football Championship the same year.

The church, which is still in use today, is known for its east window made in Dublin by Thomas Jervais, it is the second earliest known piece of Irish-made stained glass.

[18] Larocor Church (of which Reverend Jonathan Swift was also Rector[19]) has since been deconsecrated and is now a private house.

[citation needed] Summerhill Community Center has a bowls room, office space, a large indoor sports hall, 3 renovated sand based tennis courts, an outdoor basketball court, a playground, an outdoor gym, a bar and restaurant, and a theater.

[citation needed] Agher Church is in the Rathmolyon and Dunboyne Union of parishes and holds a very important stained-glass window made by Thomas Jervais.

[18] The window was originally erected in the private chapel of Dangan Castle, the seat of the Wellesley family (whom the 1st Duke of Wellington is a member), which burnt down in the 1809.

Bus Éireann route 115C links Summerhill to Mullingar, and in the opposite direction to Dublin via connections available at Kilcock.